This giving up Google and Yahoo! for Lent stuff is hard. Yesterday was my first full day at my computer since I started my sacrifice. I am not doing too well. I did 52 Google searches. I also did 28 searches on Ask and 5 on Live. Most of the Google searches were due to […]
Continue reading →Lent is upon us. It lasts until April 7, which is the day before Easter. In Lent, it’s traditional to give up something that we do a lot of and that we find pleasure in. This ‘giving up’ is done as a discipline for learning self-control, to free our minds from the chase after material […]
Continue reading →Ariel Silverstone recently introduced me to the concept of the singularity. The law of accelerating returns, on which the singularity is based, is easily observed in the world of technology. The singularity itself is a much more abstract Matrix like construct. This video makes some of it easy to understand and is quite entertaining. Thanks […]
Continue reading →Interesting article in the WSJ about the Online Storage Wars (subscription required). I was working on such a service this time last year. Decided to exit the effort when AOL started offering 5 gigs for free and I had come to the same conclusion as AOL. “Storage is really boring for the consumer — like […]
Continue reading →Marc Fluery has quit Red Hat. Surprise, surprise. Not many NYSE company 16B types would have a blog called “Thank God for Internet Porn” regardless of now office safe it might be. You gotta go read his Apple rant. If you have ever been in an Apple store it is ROTF funny.
Continue reading →Embrace, extend and extinguish is the term introduced during the Microsoft anti-trust case to describe Microsoft’s generic strategy. Must be a pretty good strategy. Seems to me that Google is at least implementing the embrace and extend part. For those that did not hear, last week Vincent Dureau, the person in charge of television technology […]
Continue reading →Tonight and tomorrow I will be participating in SoCon. It is my first unconference, please be gentle. I am excited with anticipation of what I might unlearn. Sherry has done a bang up job in unorganizing. It freed out in no time and registration was closed weeks ago. Over 250 people registered for the event […]
Continue reading →The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) fired back at Apple suggesting the company open up its anti-piracy technology to its rivals instead of urging major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online. From the AP: Mitch Bainwol, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, said the move […]
Continue reading →Today Steve Jobs posted his thoughts on music. In this he explores three alternatives for the future of DRM (digital rights management). He concludes by suggesting making music available via download DRM free. Awesome! But what is his motivation? Using myself as a micro consumer example helps explain it a bit beyond Steve’s macro numbers. […]
Continue reading →With all due respect to Bob, there are going to be some rather big changes to this blog over the next few weeks. It has also been my strategy to turn this into my primary personal Web presence once the traffic generated here got to be larger then my "official" site. That time has come. […]
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