Jacob A. Rau The personal blog of Jacob A. Rau

This is something I have dreamed of since I was 7. A company called 900Global, out of Texas, is manufacturing a remote-controlled bowling ball, the RC-900.

According to the company’s FAQ, the ball can be thrown as a normal bowling ball, but it works best when rolled down a ramp. It appears that the niche this company is trying to fill is that of assisting handicapped bowlers. After having helped with the bowling event of Special Olympics, I can definitely see the need for a device like this.

Also, I stink at bowling and always have, so I definitely would like one of these for myself.

Video after the break.

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I got a gift card for iTunes from my parents. Normally, I wouldn’t buy iTunes credit, opting rather for Amazon MP3 for my online purchases, but since this was essentially free money, and Apple has removed the Digital Rights Management from their online store, I figured I would go for it.

What I didn’t anticipate is that iTunes would work worse than it did years ago.

I will let my message to Apple Support speak for itself. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t want to spend all my time messing with the PHP needed to make this nice. Therefore, I give up. I installed WordPress. Now I’m not up to my nose in code.

This might actually be fun!