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Final thoughts on the Apple Tablet

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

So Apple’s big announcement is tomorrow and everyone’s throwing out their last minute predictions so I figured I’d speak my peace on the whole thing. Here’s what I expect Apple to release tomorrow: a 10 inch iPod Touch with 3g and maybe a forward facing camera. Apple has a penchant for stripping out everything that’s [...]

ATM Death, a drama in 5 parts.

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

This ATM rebooted as we walked past it today. I started watching it just as the OS/2 Warp logo splashed across the screen.

Oh Roku, how I love you

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I finally broke down and bought one of those 99 dollar NetFlix players from Roku a couple of weeks ago. And I love it.
Granted, most of the streaming content on NetFlix consists of documentaries, crappy 70s science fiction and Gene Autry shows, but you know what? That’s OK. There’s enough watchable content that it makes [...]

Somehow Appropriate

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

New MacBook Pro

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I’ve been waiting for a while for the new MacBooks to come out since Apple hadn’t really updated the line in any significant way since the they were using the G4s in PowerBooks. After the announcement yesterday I decided to pick up a new MacBook Pro to replace my aging one.
Before I get into actually [...]

Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’ve been playing with the new Google Chrome browser for the past few hours and I have to say I like what I’m seeing so far. It’s pretty obvious where Google is going with this. They’re knocking the browser out of the way, stripping out pretty much everything but the URL bar and a couple [...]

Wordpress for the iphone.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

So it appears that the new wordpress application was released for the iPhone today. Aaaaaand it doesn’t support landscape mode. What the hell? This is fairly inconvenient to type long posts on even if I otherwise like the application. Also, to test the photo inclusion capabilities of the app, here’s a picture of a potato.

Amazon S3 down.

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Hey everyone, remember how the Internet is this big decentralized network, with multiple redundancies so that if one piece fails, we can route around it and minimize the impact? It’s really a great way to set up a network.
So stop fucking it up.
Amazon’s S3 service offers cheap storage so that you can host pictures, videos, [...]

iPhone 2.0 Firmware

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I woke up this morning to discover that the iPhone 2.0 firmware was released. I could finally use the app store and play with ActiveSync. Here’s a list of random thoughts that have gone through my mind while playing with the new release and poking around the app store.

Seriously, most of this stuff still doesn’t [...]

On the relationship between the Internet and its users.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

For the past 10 years there’s been a growing trend towards posting personal information online, relying on services that you don’t own and have no control over, reliance on being able to do things for free, and getting upset when a company acts like a company is expected to instead of a moral emissary of [...]

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