Tag Archives: technology

On last week’s 350 Third podcast, Anders and I talked a lot about the evils of Captcha (shameless plug).  It’s a technology idea whose time has come and gone.  I...

A good friend posted an article on Facebook the other day about the network effect on extremism in modern life.  The author, Bill Davidow, is a veteran of business and...

In Facebook, I have listed most of the musical artists I would go out of my way to listen to or go see. A few months back Sara Bareilles came...

I received a link to an article today on Eric Schmidt’s vision of the future, a world where passive search is the norm, not active.  In the article, Mr. Schmidt...

A few weeks back, I was singing the praises of Mint.com.  Now, I am beginning to wonder if the acquisition by Quicken is starting to drag them down. There has...

About a year or so ago I moved all of our personal finances to Mint.com and away from Quicken.  I did it because I liked how dead simple it was,...

I was reading some news this morning, and came across this post about Craigslist blocking Yahoo Pipes, and indirectly a mash-up for a company called Flippity. There are cries abounding...

I was online the other night chatting with a good friend of mine, when he pinged me a link to a UStream channel that featured Jacory Harris broadcasting live from...

A few years ago, I was at the VON conference in Northern California. I don’t remember the exact circumstances now, but somehow I walked away with a Slingbox in some...

Google released a new feature for Google Voice wherein you can now forward your mobile phone voicemail to Google Voice. Google Voice is a service that allows you to have...

I have been using Wave for the last couple days, mainly for doing project and task planning with our offshore developers. I have also used it just to goof around...

I use Google tech for just about everything: Google Voice Gmail Docs Search Picasa This demo about Wave, which is not yet released, may be one of the best demos...

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that yesterday I recommended buying Lars Brownworth’s new book, Lost To The West. You also ( hopefully ) have read my first...

I work for a large software company, and the things that go on here on a daily basis take me through a large range of emotions, most of them unpleasant....

One of the my largest pet peeves has to do with software product demos and the lack of attention paid to information I provide ahead of time. I cannot tell...

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...

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...

I have been working on creating a home sound environment without investing in Sonos, mainly because it just seemed overpriced. Over the last couple weeks I have built what is...