Technology Coup

Guest Post from NavyGuy...

Well, folks, seeing as our dear NavyGirl is taken with a deathly illness, I'm writing one of my sporadic guest posts. When NavyGirl gets sick, her resolve weakens, and this is when I spring my "New Technology" traps on her. This time, there were two!

First off, I got her using the PS3 as a media client. She can now watch all of our saved DVD's on the TV, including the first 4 seasons of our new favorite comedy, How I Met Your Mother. But I digress. The reason for this post was to primarily talk about a new avenue through which you can read this blog.

For Christmas, I got a Kindle, which is awesome, I love it, but it allows you to subscribe to blogs and then have them automatically delivered wirelessly to the Kindle. The nice thing is, the blog author gets a bit of money for each subscription. The only issue was getting NavyGirl to set up. After weeks of pestering and pleading, I took advantage of her momentary weakness from illness to ninja her blog into Kindle. After shouting for her to bring her checkbook down (she had no idea why) and rummaging around her wallet to get the info I needed to set up the account, marryingthenavy.com is now available to all you lucky Kindle readers out there.

So, the lesson to take away from this is: don't allow your husband to set up new electronic things while you're sick, I guess.

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They Can Send a Man to the Moon But...

This gets said often. By me. Or my mother.

"They can send a man to the moon, but they can't make a CD case that can be opened in less than eight minutes."

"They can send a man to the moon, but they can't make a trash bag that's big enough for the garbage can."

"They can send a man to the moon, but they still can't design a phone charger that will work for every cell phone!"

Well not anymore kids. According to the Freakonomics blog, a universal cell phone charger will go into production next year. Check out the full story here, or the press release.

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