As any proper geek should, I now have configured my new hardware to closely integrate into my life.
Most of it was quite straight forward, but there were a couple snags worth mentioning.
First is the Nokia Lifeblog software. You need to know the correct settings for things like Flickr and Wordpress.
Second, N95 support is absent from [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Arrivial of the n95
November 27, 2007 – 5:02 am
Web2.0 and history recurring
November 24, 2007 – 10:05 pm
It is a new Web 2.0 economy! All the rules have changed!
Yeah. Sure they have. Right.
It’s the same shell game of no revenue that everyone has played before. Actually, I think it’s a little worse this time.
It is worse because companies like Google, and everyone else because of them, are over-valued in the extreme.
These companies [...]
Pie for the holidays
November 24, 2007 – 3:10 am
This year I went to a friends house for Thanksgiving. Instead of going the easy way, I decided to make some pies.
Pumpkin is traditional and pecan was requested, so that’s what I prepared.
Pecan-o-riffic
I made a non-traditional pecan using this recipe to avoid using corn syrup. Why is corn syrup a problem? A little searching [...]
Amazon Kindle Launch
November 21, 2007 – 6:02 am
The media blitz over the Kindle is really excessive.
“Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device” (Amazon)
I think it’s great that someone finally found a way for newspapers to preserve their readership, but by getting people to buy a $400 brick with EVDO where they can download books? $10 ebook downloads? I’m curious to see who is [...]
Internet Payments
November 19, 2007 – 6:39 am
I had the pleasure of setting up an online payment system that had the following goals
Point and click payments available by url
Not dealing with the complications of handling credit cards directly
Email invoicing
Lowest transaction and recurring fees possible
Add to this the very well known problems with the way Paypal does business, specifically with sellers, and I [...]
Facebook and privacy revisited
November 18, 2007 – 4:01 am
Like I have talked about before with Google and as Laurance Lessig discussed in his talk at the University of Washington, public companies are established with one goal. … Some of his talk entitled “Is Google (2008) Microsoft (1998)” is available here:
Wii for the upcoming holidays
November 17, 2007 – 5:40 pm
It is amazing to me that the Wii console is still out of stock most places.
Since I’ve had mine since January, this is not a major concern for me. For the rest of you out there that are still hunting for yours, I offer the following advice:
Try to find a Wii at your local stores [...]
ITCi 2007
November 12, 2007 – 2:42 pm
This is the presentation that I gave earlier this week at the ITCi Conference in San Diego, California. It was well received and fostered a lot of interesting discussion.
My recording of the event on my laptop had enough problems as to be distracting, so I gave up on using it to export a real-time presentation. [...]
Grumble
November 3, 2007 – 7:31 pm
Whenever I try to get a cell phone, it always ends up being a circus.
For instance earlier today I ordered the previously mentioned Nokia N95. I must now reject receiving it because this phone is going to be out in a couple of weeks.
From the product description:
Uses 3.5G wireless technology for easy, convenient Internet browsing
Features [...]
Phone followup (again)
November 2, 2007 – 2:19 pm
So tomorrow, the iPhone goes back just under the two-week-trial wire and I will be in a dead zone of no phone limbo until my Nokia n95 arrives when I’m at my conference in San Diego next week.
No phone for a few days. That will be an odd feeling. I wonder if I [...]
