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bye bye, AT&T
Posted by on January 21, 2011
On Wednesday the story broke that Google was testing number porting for Voice, but I got there too late: the option was already gone by the time I checked. Then yesterday it occurred to me to check again, and lo and behold, there it was. It just so happened that I was angrier at AT&T [...]
two articles
Posted by on January 21, 2011
and two quotes. 1) “How much time do you spend verbalizing? Every time you talk, you destroy the memory of what you’re talking about.” from Science Proves You’re Stupid 2) “Is [the software we use] it really fulfilling our needs? Or are we reducing the needs we feel in order to convince ourselves that the software [...]
1-1-11
Posted by on January 1, 2011
First off: happy new year! The post title was too much to resist, honestly, which clearly says something about how my brain works. I’ll be damned if I know what it is that it says though. While I was musing about writing something it occurred to me that an arbitrary marker to signify that our [...]
the end of the mechanical age
Posted by on July 16, 2010
Anyone that knows me also knows that I am tablet fan. My first job out of college was at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center creating a user interface for a tablet that never shipped (this was 1998!) even though we got it working in prototype form. I have used tablets of various kinds since then [...]
the web is an app
Posted by on July 14, 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what apps mean for web development, and how they intersect, and my conclusion so far is that very soon web apps will always be built… as apps. What do I mean by this? Apps are user interfaces optimized for a particular device or screen, and they communicate with [...]
the missing predators
Posted by on July 12, 2010
Over the weekend I saw Predators (fairly entertaining, if slightly slow in the reveal for some portions of the story). I don’t think I’ll ruin anything by saying that in this movie we meet a new caste of predators that we’ve never seen before, a sort of super-predator that kinda slaps around the original predator [...]
the problem with iPhone 4 (and it’s not what you think)
Posted by on July 4, 2010
“Do you like your iPhone 4?” I’ve heard this question more than a few times in the two weeks since I got it, and I imagine I’m not alone. I’ve owned and used as my primary phone every iPhone since the original but for the first time the answer to this question, surprisingly, has been [...]
the web is not the browser (redux)
Posted by on March 31, 2009
A few years back one discussion that was all the rage was whether mobile phones could or couldn’t supplant PCs as web browsing devices. In 2009, that is taken as a given. Mobile browsers (Safari Mobile, Opera Mini, Skyfire, even, ahem, IE on WinMo) have become pretty good at what they do. The web experience [...]
the story of ‘the plan’
Posted by on March 15, 2009
I’ve been writing a little bit (again) this past week — or, rather, doing mostly editing of things I wrote over the last few years but somehow never got around to finish. I’m going to be publishing them through Amazon (Createspace for dead-tree versions and the Amazon Digital Text Platform for Kindle versions). Each has [...]
watchmen (the movie): too good for its own good?
Posted by on March 11, 2009
Could Alan Moore have been both right and wrong at the same time? This is what I keep asking myself a few days after seeing Watchmen. The anticipation for this movie, certainly among the graphic novel nerds like myself, was probably matched in recent memory only by The Dark Knight. Zack Snyder & Co. clearly [...]
