One of the most original and well thought out comments on the subject of the “faked” moon landings.
Jan
21
May
17
Dumm-E, or How I Was Schooled in Things Robotic
Last night I was cleaning the brushes of our Roomba 530 when my three year old son walked into the kitchen and asked what I was doing. One of his favorite movies is WALL-E, the Pixar flick about a junk collecting robot cleaning up an abandoned, trash-filled planet Earth. I pointed out that the Roomba,… Continue reading »
Dec
06
Facebook – Unstoppable Juggernaut, or Has-Been-To-Be?
Facebook is currently the king of the social networking hill, but a little bit of history is useful in predicting where the company, and social networking in general, might be a few years down the line.
Dec
05
WordPress: Why did I wait so long?
I sat down this afternoon to make some edits to my sorely out of date personal website (preserved here, for laughs) and a few hours later, I had ended up mostly rebuilding the site in WordPress. All I can say is that I’m kicking myself for not doing this sooner. The WordPress ecosystem / community… Continue reading »
Sep
13
iControl Everything
I believe that within a couple of years, expensive universal remotes will be all but dead, as more home theater devices ship with built in Wifi and a phone/tablet app that controls them. However, I’m worse than an early adopter- I’m an early experimenter. That’s why rather than waiting for this to come built in to my next generation home theater/TV/cable box, I’m going to spend a bunch of money and go through a bunch of hassle to try and make it happen now.
May
14
What are Social Networks Good For? How about Saving the Internet
Twitter is inanity, 140 characters at a time. Facebook is the world’s most engaging and least profitable website, spending millions of dollars a minute so that people can bore each other with baby pictures. MySpace, already written off by the digital elite, is the lowest common denominator of online interaction, the cheesy strip mall of… Continue reading »
Sep
02
Google: Great Web App builders, awful Web Comic publishers
I haven’t had an opportunity to use Google’s Chrome browser yet, so I’ll reserve my opinion on its user experience enhancements until I do. However, I have had an opportunity to read the web comic that Google posted outlining the new features and philosophy behind Chrome. One thing I am able to conclusively say to… Continue reading »
Aug
12
Eyes On The Road, Pal
Last week, while traveling for business, I ended up with a rental Hyundai Sonata. While slogging through LA freeway traffic, I adjusted the preprogrammed radio stations to my liking. I then checked to see if there were steering wheel mounted controls, so I could scan the stations and adjust volume without taking my eyes off… Continue reading »
Aug
07
Per iPhone: Google is a Verb
Although the Oxford English Dictionary has already decreed that the term Google is a verb, a more culturally relevant institution – the iPhone – has resoundingly confirmed it. Here’s the search screen from the iPhone’s implementation of Safari: Once you’ve entered your search term, you’re invited (by the active, blue button on the lower right)… Continue reading »
Jul
01
Google to index Flash – and why this is a non-announcement
There’s a lot of buzz about today’s announcement about Google’s improved Flash indexing. For those of you not obsessed with Flash or SEO, the reason this post is getting so much attention is simple: previously, Google’s crawlers were unable to index text within Flash movies. Since quite a bit of content (on entertainment sites, especially)… Continue reading »