I have been a staunch Macbook Pro and Apple product supporter for the last three or four years, recommending them to everyone I know, and spreading the gospel according to Steve. For the first time that I can remember, I would now hesitate to recommend the new Macbook Pro to those that use large ( […]
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Transparent logic
I have been paying a bit of attention to the efforts of the current administration to make the government more open and transparent. Particularly, today I spent a good bit of time on the USA Spending site. I was reading a review of the new IT spending section and decided to check it out. I […]
Would you buy services from this company?
I was at one of my favorite restaurants yesterday here in Raleigh, the Edwards Mill Grill. I went to the bathroom and saw the picture below as an advertisement displayed over top of the waste disposal device ( read: toilet ): This is a computer training company. I can’t imagine someone actually approving this ad […]
Bank of America Has Issues
I recently went thru the process of refinancing my house. My original mortgage was with BoA. I initially contacted my original loan officer and asked if there was an opportunity to keep my business at BoA, simply because we were already there. If it’s true that its harder to win a new customer than to […]
Seat belts, bike helments and pythons oh my!
I am against seat belt laws, bike helmet laws and other similar types of things that impede on personal freedom. To be clear, I think all of the aforementioned items are great things to have and use. My kids wear bike helmets when out riding on public streets, and we wear seat belts everywhere when […]
I love Bing
I have been messing around with Bing the last few days, and for some reason tonight I decided to search on myself, just to see what would come up. The results of the search literally made my night, and hence drove me to profess my ( temporary ) love for Bing. Background: In 2006, the […]
Tennis ladders and competition
I am playing on tennis ladder at the local city park here in Raleigh. It’s my first time playing on a ladder, though I have played tennis on and off for most of my life. I was playing against a guy last night ( who beat me ) and we got to talking about how […]
Which source of information do you trust more?
There is an interesting article in the latest edition of Wired magazine about the titanic battle that is being waged between Google and Facebook for the attention of you, the user. The argument, as articulated by Facebook, is that Google will become irrelevant in the search business because its no longer about just finding things, […]
Strange day in the news today
Michael Jackson is dead, according to TMZ Farrah Fawcett is dead. A legendary prep high school coach was shot dead by a former player. Mark Sanford continues to be the punching bag of the media for his grievous missteps. Iran almost certainly has cheated their population out of a fair election, according to the Washington […]
iPhone? Hardly tells the story
Last night our home lost power in the middle of the night due to some pretty nasty rain storms. What happened in the next 5 minutes after the power dropped provides a really clear picture of why the iPhone is my favorite piece of technology. When the power went out, I woke up to the […]