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December 31, 2011
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 52 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]
December 23, 2011
Free sells…
So after 3 days into the 5 day free promotion of my book Urtaru hundreds of copies did the digital equivalent of flying off the shelves in the US, UK and Germany. Obviously there's always a catch…giving away something for free means that the only payback I get is goodwill and hope of a recommendation. Merry Christmas [...]
Kindle Fire 6.2.1 – Phew!
So with a month under my belt with the kindle fire I'm mostly happy. Being a technologist I have to admit I was giving it a long leash to find its way. There were some weirdnesses in the experience and some quirkiness it apps that were comparable to ones on my iPhone that started to [...]
December 21, 2011
http://ow.ly/87czf FREE for purchase fro
http://ow.ly/87czf FREE for purchase from Amazon till Xmas: Urtaru on Kindle – science fiction based on the armenian experience Filed under: Random
December 11, 2011
A rubric to pick a president
I've been thinking about this for a bit the last few weeks as the Republican candidates jostle with each other over who's the most appropriate candidate for the party. I've come to some opinions on the matter which I will list here: Religious affiliation is probably not going to make a better president. I guess [...]
December 7, 2011
Leafless
So I was driving to work this morning. The rain had just started as a few small drops on my windshield. As I drove past the houses in my neighborhood, I noted that the trees were devoid of leaves. Since we were in late fall, the natural expectation was that they'd be on the ground [...]
November 17, 2011
My new Kindle Fire — 24 hours in the Amazon Cloud
I have a video which shows me opening it up for the first time. I'm actually impressed. (hey it's my own money…i better be) Anyway, I've been playing with it for about 24 hours and here are my reactions. Packaging Understated, and typically kindle. The brown cardboard seems more green for some reason. There wasn't [...]
November 12, 2011
What happened when I read Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs…
So some time has passed since Steve moved on. I've been reading the official biography by Walter Isaacson on my kindle dx. I live in a world of irony, and the irony of having Jobs' face look up at me from a kindle in black, gray and white was not lost on me. I will [...]
October 25, 2011
Meta-Irony
So here's the kind of evening I had. Just before my class tonight I was doing homework at the Lower Cafe at Bentley. I saw a flaw in my calculations of some statistics that I had done over the weekend and emailed my team members that I figured out what was wrong with our answer. [...]
October 14, 2011
IOS5/OSX.7.2/iCloud reactions
OK so I've spent the last day updating my devices and data to the new model. My overall reaction is Apple once again (just like the .mac to MobileMe transition) is yet to really understand the cloud and the expectation of uptime that each of these transitions requires. Don't feel so bad. Intuit, has gone [...]
