Quick reminder, we’ll be having our monthly meetup tonight. Topic is Service Oriented Architecture: A Mashup Culture. As always, it’s free and open to anyone. Details here. Also, today I had a chance to meet with Steve Bourque, owner of Bourque Data Systems (more photos here) Bourque Data Systems is the 37signals of the railroad [...]
OK, now I'm pissed
on June 5, 2007 with 0 comments
[Resolved:] Apple is now sending me a brand new Macbook Pro. I’m guess I’m lucky this happened right when they upgraded the whole line. I’m getting the 15″ with 2.2ghz processor, 2gb ram for free. Somewhere between Apple, DHL and me, my powerbook got lost. It was meant to be delivered May 30, and after [...]
Why I'm glad my data is "in the clouds"
on May 24, 2007 with 2 Comments
I drove up to Lake Travis last night and within 30 minutes of getting here my powerbook was broken. I was updating my blackberry with iCal and it crashed, now it won’t boot up. But, it’s shown me how unnecessary bringing a laptop really is. All the data I care about is in the clouds, [...]
AppleTV Server
on April 17, 2007 with 1 Comment
When AppleTV came out I was really disappointed. I was hoping for something better than a mac mini hooked up to my TV, not simply an iTunes extender. But it is a good first step into the living room of most people (not my living room, I have a PC in there already which can [...]
I hate DRM
on April 12, 2007 with 1 Comment
I’ve had bad luck with DRM today. First with Apple, then Microsoft. Let’s start with Apple: This is what it said on my laptop when I tried to download ze frank’s album: “You have already authorized five computers. You can still purchase music on this computer, but you will need to transfer any purchased songs [...]
Casino Royale was a great movie, but Sony ruined the DVD
on March 22, 2007 with 0 comments
Casino Royale was the best James Bond I’ve seen in a long time. So when it came out on DVD we had to get it. But I ran into a big problem. Sony put some really annoying copy protection on it which wouldn’t let me copy it to my computer. I have all my movies [...]
New Phone, Blackberry Pearl
on January 24, 2007 with 0 comments
Well I finally got around to getting a new phone. I was playing around with a Blackjack and really liked it, so I went to the Cingular store and found the Blackberry Pearl which is even better. I’ve only had it for two days and I’m still not used to the QWERTY keyboard yet, but [...]
