I love Android. I love my EVO. I’m grateful that Google opened my eyes. But, there’s a rub with Android. It’s the same one with Linux. They’re both too hard. Let me qualify before you break out the flamethrower. Obviously, they would be similar, since Android is based Linux kernel. When I talk about Linux, [...]
I wasn’t at the OSCON Cloud Summit this past week, but I’ve spent some time over the weekend trying to collect the good bits. Via Twitter, I had heard echos of an interesting debate on Cloud standards between Sam Johnston and Benjamin Black. Today I got to see Benjamin’s slides and read reports from two [...]
I did some printer support over the weekend, which reminded me of the whole “facebook login” fiasco from earlier in the month. Long story short, the person I was supporting couldn’t get Windows to recognize the printer. The PC tower was under a desk and in a difficult spot to reach. The area was so [...]
Original image by ttarasiuk on Flickr used under Creative Commons I noticed a comment came on Connect this week from a skeptic. Someone had posted this video of Seth Godin, and among the positive comments was one skeptic. The skeptic correctly identified Seth’s bent toward consumer use cases and the general lack of enterprise use [...]
Photo by davidseth on Flickr used under Creative Commons Since last week’s post on the interwebs and fear, a couple other un-related posts have come across my reader that have me pondering the future of our beloved intertubes. First was Chris (#mrhashtag) Messina on “The death of the URL“, followed by Tim “What is Web [...]
The Word from the Web – 11/20/2009 We’re winding down our Around the World series for this year. Take a look at some of the latest nuggets from the 2009 show. If you’ve been part of a discussion that’s been going since the It’s a Wrap party, let us know about it in the comments. [...]
No one likes to admit failure, especially when duplicity is involved. The intertubes is rife with scams and hoaxes, and I’m pretty sure everyone reading has fallen for at least one at some point. Case in point, today, I tried to download the bogus beta version of Chrome OS. Yes, it’s a hoax, so don’t [...]
The good thing about having a blog without a narrow focus is that I can blog about pretty much anything. And I do. Case in point, auto-tuning. Until a few months ago, I wasn’t familiar with the practice of auto-tuning, which applies effects to people’s voices. I guess it’s usually applied to singer’s voices to [...]
Photo by o palsson from Flickr used under Creative Commons There are few things like predictions to spark some discussion, and I found a set of predictions about what everyday technology we won’t be using in a decade on TechRadar (h/t Digg) that I’m sure will produce some discussion. If nothing else, it’ll get you [...]
So, I’m back from my brief hiatus. Interestingly, traffic spiked on Friday the 4th when I posted that note. Not entirely sure why, but maybe some of you saw the post title in your readers and thought something noteworthy had happened. Sorry to disappoint. Part of the reason I took time off was to perform [...]