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October 14, 2009
Google Wave…WHY?
OK so I got my precious invitation to Google Wave and I went in, and started experimenting. There's some cool stuff in there. It seems like a mashup of Friendfeed, Utterli and IM, with a sort of email feel to it.
My best description of what it feels like to use it is, if you ever [...:]
My best description of what it feels like to use it is, if you ever [...:]
October 9, 2009
Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize? Give me a break!
First off, I can say this because
I voted for him
I have a right to free expression
I have to laugh
So lets get this straight. Nominations were due on Jan 30, 10 days after the inauguration…so singlehandedly without most of his transition done, in 10 days Barack Obama changed the world peace situation. What did he [...:]
I voted for him
I have a right to free expression
I have to laugh
So lets get this straight. Nominations were due on Jan 30, 10 days after the inauguration…so singlehandedly without most of his transition done, in 10 days Barack Obama changed the world peace situation. What did he [...:]
October 6, 2009
Amazon to sell kindle globally!
This is freakin' awesome! Those who have been following my blog posts and tweets know that my book, Urtaru, has a sort of international edge to it. I'm hoping that the new markets that are being opened up!
A reuters article outlines it very well. but on the amazon splash screen they have a long letter [...:]
A reuters article outlines it very well. but on the amazon splash screen they have a long letter [...:]
September 26, 2009
Apollo 13
Rented Apollo 13 this evening on my Apple TV in HD. Great movie. This is my 2nd time seeing it. It conjures all kinds of emotions in me. I was only 6 when the events recounted in it happened and barely remember it. However I read Gene Kranz book "Failure Is Not An Option" a [...:]
September 25, 2009
Snow Leopard…
Strange, it didn't seem to make much of a difference. There were some cosmetic changes (expose and stuff), I feel psychologically up to date, but I don't feel much else.
Posted in Random
Posted in Random
August 29, 2009
Just installed Snow Leopard
Will report more later…really interested in the quicktime editing and exchange 2007 connection…
Posted in Random
Posted in Random
August 26, 2009
R.I.P. Ted
People who know my political inclinations know that Ted Kennedy and I would have been on opposite sides of the see-saw. I never expressed much love for him mostly because of in my old liberal days (before I could vote) I held it against him that he tried to get the nomination from Carter in [...:]
Magazines on the Kindle
So, this evening I poked around the Kindle store looking at newspapers and magazines. The newspaper subscriptions were just too dear for me. Getting the WSJ for $15 a month when I am already paying something less than that for my online subscription seemed a bit steep (and losing my ability to tweet or digg [...:]
July 29, 2009
Now I've entered the Digital Reading age…
OK so up to this point I've blogged and tweeted, updated my Facebook feed and hooked all my various digital incarnations together so
that I can update them all at the same time…Digital ubiquity has been achieved. I've published a book, so Digital publishing was achieved.
Tonight, as Darth Vader would say, "the circle is now complete"
My [...:]
that I can update them all at the same time…Digital ubiquity has been achieved. I've published a book, so Digital publishing was achieved.
Tonight, as Darth Vader would say, "the circle is now complete"
My [...:]
July 28, 2009
Congratulations Jim Rice…
As I tweeted Sunday morning, I am really happy for Jim Rice. There was a really good article in the Boston Globe this Sunday about Rice's career in Boston. However my personal recollections were slightly different. I was a born Mets fan from SW Connecticut. I was a Yankee hater as soon as the [...:]
