Jul 08 2008
This post is embarrassing to write because I have to admit to having been something less than a rocket scientist when it comes to HDTV. It’s true that HDTV is a quagmire of formats, conflicting opinions, hype, and commercial madness. No mere mortal can be expected to understand it without doing an awful lot of […]
May 12 2008
Hey, think back five or six years, when everybody was getting their first digital cameras and posting pictures on their shiny new blogs. The thing to do then was to offer up your spectacular images as free wallpapers for your blog visitors. You’d make them available in all the popular sizes; 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, and […]
Apr 14 2008
When I’m making my various trips through the Web it drives me crazy that there are no standards for how to represent the “previous” and “next” page (or message) links on Web sites. For example, in Yahoo Mail (classic view), when you get to the bottom of a page of messages and want to go […]
Apr 07 2008
I‘ve been using Twitter lately, which is odd when you consider I had started using it last year and then gave up on it, calling it a colossal waste of time without even the benefit of being fun or useful. But one day two weeks ago I signed in and sent a tweet (a twitter […]
Mar 23 2008
As you might have noticed, I’ve changed my template a bit. In fact, it’s a whole new template, although it doesn’t look so different from the old one. But underneath it is quite different.
The new template lets me use Wordpress “widgets” in the sidebar, which means nothing to you, but something to me. Unfortunately, some […]
Mar 14 2008
I‘ve been having the most bizarre dreams lately, but I’ve not written about them because writing about your dreams is a bit like describing your bowel movements; endlessly fascinating to yourself but of little interest to others. But this one is short, and so over the top that I can’t resist telling.
In the dream, I’m […]
Feb 28 2008
After all that kerfuffle last month about whether to reinstall Windows, switch to Ubuntu, or maybe even go Mac, I found myself imagining a few conversations with some of the people behind those systems.
My Conversation with Bill Gates
Me: Bill, I understand what Windows is supposed to do and supposed to be. I really do. But […]
