links, random thoughts, various opinions
I finally got around to getting a slingbox…I have grand plans to write about the tricks of running it in Windows virtualized on my Mac half a world away…anyways no time. I can say in summary though it helps with the endless traveling to check out the occasional show from home.
Apple too is racing […]
My Mac inexplicably crashed on the weekend. Thankfully Carbon Copy Cloner saved the day. I had a back up from a couple of weeks ago and was able to boot off the secondary drive. From there I could copy my primary mail, documents and music accounts (about the only thing that changes […]
Cool underground photos of Japan’s infrastructure at Joe Nishizawa: Japan’s underground photography.
Field Notes From The GooglePlex
“Cutts left me pondering about the importance of search to Google, and how it was still the brains behind the entire show. Following him were folks spearheading the Google WiFi division, Google Talk, Google Finance and Google Checkout. Their thoughts would surely find their way into posts on those topics, but […]
I’ve been experimenting with Parallels lately - this is the program that lets me run Windows (in my case Win2K) on my Intel MacBook Pro. It works very well..considerably better than Virtual PC on the PPC. It’s a great way to simulate client environments and when necessary open those MS Project files. […]
The Future Of Cable TV That You Will Probably Never Get To Watch
“Instead we have to put up with crappy UIs, poor feature sets, and crappy HD content.
Do you blame me for loading BitTorrent?”
I’m new to Rocketboom. I get it. Cool.
What is a Video Podcast?
Dave links to a great site with the The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs.
I’m getting used to my new Intel MacBook Pro. It’s performed well on this long business trip except the heat it generates continues to surprise (and worry) me. I’ve also noticed that the magnetically attached power cord is a very useful feature in preventing me from pulling my laptop off the desk or […]
Google’s Office add-on
“Google, as it has itself said repeatedly, is not interested in fighting old wars. Microsoft won the war for spreadsheet applications. Google’s fighting a new war, a war that’s barely begun. It’s the war for web services. And it knows that, for the foreseeable future, these services will not displace desktop applications but […]
I’ve been using Camino for several months now (since version 1.0). On my old Power Mac I found it speedy and better with a variety of websites that didn’t seem to like Safari; speed was the main factor though (and the mac’ish skinnable look). Like Derek I’ve decided to switch back to Safari […]
After stumbling across the graphing applet on the website Aharef last night, I checked out the site again today. There’s a link to a song from a band the author is in. I listened a couple of times to the full version…and happily went over to iTunes to drop .99 for the song. A good […]
I was chatting with Ernest last night and he pointed me to this blog - Aharef - and the very cool utility for mapping websites - HTML Graph Applet. Great visualization.
Scan This Book
“Scanning technology has been around for decades, but digitized books didn’t make much sense until recently, when search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN came along. When millions of books have been scanned and their texts are made available in a single database, search technology will enable us to grab and read […]
Not sure I agree with it all.. but an interesting read nonetheless - The Microsoft Malaise
“The .Net framework that many believe is an example of how Microsoft can actually put together elegant and powerful architectures when it wants to, is being killed by Open Source systems that are free and almost just as powerful. Microsoft […]
Neutrality of the Net
“The Internet is increasingly becoming the dominant medium binding us. The neutral communications medium is essential to our society. It is the basis of a fair competitive market economy. It is the basis of democracy, by which a community should decide what to do. It is the basis of science, by which […]
Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend
“Regarding anything related to Apple’s strategy going forward, it’s essential to keep in mind just how Apple functions as a business. It’s not very complicated. Apple now has two fundamental businesses: selling Macintosh computers and selling iPods. And I think if you […]
Shared-Discovery Blogging
“Hey there are already lots of ways of having conversations on the net, email, IM, mail lists, usenet. We hardly need another way to have conversation.
I blog to share discoveries, large and small, mundane and profound and everything inbetween.”
I agree, but I mostly blog for myself (and I know my Mom and at least […]
GM took quite a hard wrap this week for a contest that let web users create their own ads about the Chevy Tahoe. Anyways some of the ads got pretty aggressive on GM’s record on climate change. To their credit GM recognized this might happen and even responded on their blog… with some […]
Is Anyone Out There Listening?
“Admittedly, I’ve never been in charge of a large company, but I am exasperated by the growing trend of putting obstacles in the way of getting support that serve no other purpose than to slow the customer down. I can understand having a “tier 1″ support and then higher level support […]