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I've been playing video games since I was a little kid, and perhaps as a result of that, the release of a major new gaming console is closest thing I've found that captures that feeling of kid on Christmas Eve, when the state of pure anticipation is at its most exquisite.

I woke up this morning to clocks flashing 12:00 all over my house due to overnight power outages. Judging from the number of sites that I've had trouble accessing today, I guess there are a lot of data centers and server farms that have flashing clocks on their coffee makers at the moment thanks to power outages caused by the hurricane.

Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronics Arts, stated his view in a recent interview that, "[console gamining] is going to become a smaller market,....more like a hobby market." I'm not so sure that he is right.

I can't see my forms in design view (I thought that usually there were dashed red lines around the border), and I'm having trouble keeping all of the form fields inside of the forms. How can I get the forms to display in design view?

Windows should recognize the SSD and automatically disable automatic defragmenting, which you do not want done to SDDs.  Other than that, I would just make certain that I had all the current storage drivers and firmware updates.  I would also use "diskpart clean all" command to wipe the SDD before installing the OS.

In terms of money, I would say iPhone, with the Wii U and Kindle probably fighting over second place.  In terms of disruptive technology, I would have to go with the Wii U.  Both the iPhone 5 and Kindle Fire HD are incremental new models of existing products.

I tried to use my PC external drive with a Mac at work, and the Mac just shakes its head and says, "Nope!" How can I get the Mac to recognize the drive and access the files on the drive?

I was reading my news feeds this a.m. and saw that Amazon had issued a press release saying that they've sold out of Kindle Fires. It wasn't perfectly clear, but it seemed to suggest that they didn't plan to have any more, so if you don't have one, you never will unless you buy a used one.

I went to the "trouble" of rooting my old LG Android phone, with the goal of removing all the bloatware that was installed by my carrier and overclocking the CPU.

That  rumor about Android being ported to Raspberry Pi isn't just a rumor.  Having hardware accelerated graphics and video playback capability will be pretty sweet for a $35 computer. There is an article about it on Ars.  http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/android-4-0-ported-to-raspberry-pis-35-linux-computer/ 

Since Firefox moved to its rapid update/release cycle, I have gone from being a fan of Firefox to a user of Chrome. It finally got to be too much of a headache, one update would work fine, then a new one would come out that removed features I used. Another week or two would pass, then another update would break software compatibility.

Well, yeah, it is a jerk move!  I also would be willing to bet that Facebook doesn't care.  Just like they don't care about your privacy, beyond what they have to in order to avoid legal problems.  Users are not really their customers, users are their products.