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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:17 |
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 I've been waiting somewhat patiently for the Android phones to make their way to AT&T's store. In fact, I was encouraged that a few Android phones have been reported to be on the list of new devices for the last month or so. And when my wife accidently 'washed' her ancient Nokia, I figured it would be no problem to take advantage of the 'free upgrade' offered by AT&T, in exchange for a new 2 year agreement. Boy was I mislead.
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Friday, 26 February 2010 10:47 |
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 Earlier this week I had some issues with my email accounts. It's not the first time, and usually the problem is the same... my hosted email account at Siteground.com for koegler.net gets full of trash. Actually, it's the spam filter on the host that gets filled, and the only way I know is that my email account starts bouncing email. I logged into my host and went to clear out the trash and found that it wasn't even close to full. In stead, it seemed that Gmail's POP retrieval function wasn't.
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:08 |
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 Ever have a great idea that you knew would change the world... or at least some portion of how the world works? I think that's what Gillette did with the Fusion razor. The brilliance of the disposable blade was always the mantra 'give away the razor and sell the blade." And my understanding is that the practice has worked for Gillette, and all the other blade manufacturers. That is, until the company added just one item that made the blades last too long.
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Friday, 19 February 2010 12:23 |
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 Mike Elgan put up a post today that follows up on the buzz about the PleaseRobMe.com site. If you're not familiar with it, the site posts Twitter items from folks who include the phrase "left home." Get it? The implication is pretty simple, but what the site leaves out is the essentials of just where this person's home is. And in fact, as Mike points out, most of these folks are likely to be pretty far away. Never fear - Google's Buzz comes to the aid of those nefarious folk.
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:00 |
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This morning I received this email (not through my normal email address though - through an email I rarely use) telling me that I've inherited about $3,000,000! Can you believe it? I had a hard time with it myself, but there it is - with my own actual name in the email (spelled correctly). Of course the person representing the settlement says he gets to keep 65% and I get 30% - the other 5% goes to pay phone expenses and such. OK, that means about $500,000 for phone bills. So that started me wondering if this really was legit. 'ya think?
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Friday, 12 February 2010 00:00 |
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 My trusty Dimension 9150 must have sensed that it was about to be relegated to secondary duty as soon as my new Studio XPS arrived. But I promise I wasn't about to abandon it. The very day the Studio unit arrived, the keyboard and mouse on the 9150 died. (See Video Editing on an Antique Computer)
Luckily I was able to simply moved the 3 existing drives to the Studio and copied the data to its new home. But once the Studio was up and running, I turned my attention back to the 9150.
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:04 |
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 This post on TechCrunch is pretty telling - or at least amusing. Is Apple turning back the clock to a more Puritanical, or maybe Victorian era where flesh is evil, and any hint of prurient interests are not to be allowed? According to their observations about the iStore, no apps are allowed to be sold if they have any ability to cause feelings of... shall we call it 'interest'?
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:00 |
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 Actually, I thought Adobe's Photoshop was much older than just 20. I remember using it for what seems to be forever. But on Friday, the venerable pixel editor turns 20. Photoshop is one of those applications that has so many functions and nuances, that there are very few people who use more than 20% of the program. And there are probably no more than a handful of people who actually know every function available. I'm still taking classes every week, and every week I learn at least one new thing that I didn't know about Photoshop.
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Monday, 15 February 2010 00:00 |
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 I'm generally a fan of all things Google. But then, I'm also a fan of Microsoft and Adobe... companies that have a mixed set of proponents and opponents. I was looking forward to seeing what Google hath wroth, and on first look it seemed like a nice combination of short updates integrated with my Gmail stream. But today I disabled it for a couple reasons, not least of which is my inability to control the entries from the RSS feeds I added.
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:50 |
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 Google just announced (right... one more announcement from Google) that they are experimenting with providing 1GB/s fiber connections to individual users. Just to be clear... if you now have a cable modem with a mid level 5Mb/s connection, like I have with Charter.net, this would be 20 times faster than that. For those with DSL connections, this would be more like 100x the current speed. I don't know if I really need it, but I WANT IT.
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