Author Archives: Gryphon

About Gryphon

In his career - well, not so much a career as a series of interesting but usually ill-advised vocational choices, if we're being honest - Benjamin D. Hutchins has been a tech support grunt, an Internet operations tech, a small-town print reporter, a public relations writer, and a semiprofessional muser upon the random. Now he's working on several books (none of which, just to buck tradition, is the Great American Novel), eyeing the relentless march of personal gadget technology with bemusement and often suspicion, and wondering what's with these kids today, with their clothes and their hair and that stuff they think is music.His first book, Off the Top of My Head: Personal Reflections of a Small-Town Newsman, can be had here or here.

Heads-Up for a Small Subset of Computer Users

Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by Gryphon

If you have a Hewlett-Packard desktop computer with an AMD processor and are running the factory install of Windows XP, you may wish to know that, as configured from the factory, your computer will stop working, in a way that … Continue reading →

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Stark Industries “Iron Man” Mk. I

Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2008 by Gryphon

Not ready for prime time… Anybody who’s been here a while knows I’m a big fan of Stark Industries products, and I’ve been excited about this product since the first buzz for it hit Popular Mechanics a couple of years … Continue reading →

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Technosophy: Mud Ruts

Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 by Gryphon

Last night on Top Gear, one of the segments involved a review of some fancy European car or another, I forget what kind. It’s not really important; I just watch the review segments of Top Gear to hear Jeremy Clarkson … Continue reading →

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Technosophy: Computers Don’t Kill People, Tech Support Kills People

Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 by Gryphon

The startling fact that a commenter recognized the name of my old employer Leading Edge in the last Technosophy reminded me of this little piece, which I originally wrote up for another web board some years ago. I should note … Continue reading →

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Technosophy: Strange Warnings

Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 by Gryphon

I was shaving the other day when I noticed one of those small white plastic warning tags on the power adapter of my electric shaver. I didn’t pay it much mind at first, figuring that it was just the usual … Continue reading →

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