Lucid Points

A little over 3 years ago, I started Kirkham Systems out of my home, providing technology consulting to the local area. Now, there are 6 of us and the company is located in office space at 3000 Old Greenwood Road in Fort Smith. The company has been truly fortunate to have some great people to [...]

New Mexico State Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez has introduced a bill to declare Pluto a planet.  Would you please just let go?  It is funny to see it on a t-shirt, but to waste serious political efforts on this is just stupid. powered by performancing firefox

I have lamented the fact that I continue to use IE as my default browser only because the Google Toolbar for Firefox does not have Google Bookmarks built in. Well, sometime recently, they added it, and now I am in the process of switching over to Firefox. It was getting old having to use two [...]

Looking at the statistics, I know many site visitors are here for the Motorola Phone Tools tips, and what you may not know is that Motorola private labels the software from Avanquest, a software publisher of many titles. If you don’t already own Mobile Phones Tools, the best place to buy it is direct from [...]

In spite of my experience on the purchasing side of acquiring my Nokia N800, this thing rocks in many ways. One of the coolest things I did when I first received it was bluetooth-linked it to my Alltel Motorola Razor, then went and surfed the web using my Alltel connection. Imagine my surprise when I [...]

Has anyone noticed the new Interactive Weather Map now on Weather.com? The animation is now more granular, but even better you can zoom in and see the radar overlayed onto satellite imagery. Way cool for weather geeks. It is powered by Microsoft’s often-overlooked Virtual Earth. While I am on the subject, Google’s Maps feature also [...]

Over at tomkirkham.com (the responsible part of my brain), there is information and links about Daylight Savings Time issues, fixes, and other general information.

I purchased the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet the other day from their web site, and when I finished the transaction on the web site, I was told I needed to call customer service about an issue with my credit card. I thought it was strange, and there must be some sort of authorization issue, so [...]

Ok, there, I said it. I don’t get it – there is not enough of anything to justify upgrading to Vista. In fact, if you just crawled out of a cave bought your first computer, I’m not sure if you should even use Vista on it. The UAC is enough to drive you crazy. I [...]

Great photo.