Magazines on the iPad, A floundering Business?
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So The Daily and Huffington are having a hard time making ends meet. While some think it has to do with a flawed content model I think it has to do more with experience. I’ll admit up front that I have not ever tried Huffington or The Daily. Judging from their demos they seem to…
Learning New Things
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I’ve been saying for a while now that I really need to step outside of WordPress and learn more about PHP development. The hard part has been working it in to a week filled with client work and family, and relaxing at some point. My friend Eric has a good way to do it. I…
The Psychology of Recreational Athlete Doping
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Unfortunately the world of cycling is filled with stories of riders taking lots of drugs to gain performance advantages. The ones you really hear about are the big names, like Tour Winner Floyd Landis. The reality is that there are more riders suspended in the “recreational” ranks for doping then at the pro level. VeloNews…
WordPress Upgrade Fear
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Decent article on WPRealm discussing why users don’t upgrade. The biggest reason I’ve found is that their web developer failed them. Any client I’ve talked to that is not upgrading their site is afraid of something breaking. While that may be the reason they give, it’s not the real reason. Really users aren’t upgrading because…
They Make Crappy Hardware Anyway
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So it seems that there is some risk to Microsoft with producing the new Surface Tablet. The company says in the document that “our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.” The real problem here is the OEM’s. HP, Dell, Acer, and all…
It Sounds Good to Say We’re Busy
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Awesome article over on the New York times about being busy. Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day. I can’t help but wonder whether all…
Dragon Express, buggy buggy
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The more I’ve heard about dictation as a means of text entry I’ve wondered if it’s something that I could be more efficient by using. Nuance, makers of Dragon Dictate, are by far the best game in town. After a bit of research I decided to get Dragon Express (AppStore). At $50 it was a…
1Password has My Back
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So the best password cracking tool (John the Ripper) is being set up to try and crack 1Password keychains. Not to worry 1Password has our back. There is way more technical detail than I can get in to here. Go read the post on how 1Password (and a strong Master Password) makes sure you’re totally…
Twitter Really is the Bad Guy in this Story
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So I wrote briefly about the censorship of a journalist that was critical of NBC and they’re Olympic coverage. Sure NBC was dumb for filing the complaint but it seems Twitter is the real bad guy in this journalist censorship story. It’s hard to remember now that Twitter was once the darling of techies everywhere.…
Most People use the Native Twitter Client Anyway
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I’ve talked more than once about Twitter restricting it’s API. Sure most people I know don’t use the native Twitter clients, but most people I know easily qualify as power users of pretty much anything they use. It seems that the general Twitter user uses Twitter’s apps or the website. Twitter has these stats as…
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