I write about the things I find interesting. It’s really random stuff.
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I had a chance to take the iPhone from work and use it over the past weekend and I felt that I should write about it. The process was very simple: Just switch SIM cards and sync my contacts, email…
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If you don’t save, how do you expect to get wealthy?
At one level this should come as no surprise. For most of the last decade America was a nation of borrowers and spenders, not savers. The personal savings rate dropped from 9 percent in the 1980s to 5 percent in…
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Neil Gaiman sums up the whole Kindle text-to-speech debacle
When you buy a book, you’re also buying the right to read it aloud, have it read to you by anyone, read it to your children on long car trips, record yourself reading it and send that to your girlfriend…
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MacBook Pro Woes… Again.
I took this picture of the ports on my MacBook Pro (2007 Santa Rosa). I have bought a new FW800 enclosure, but the port on the MacBook Pro is recessed about 2mm and I cannot attach the enclosure properly (although…
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Restoring a 100 year-old clock
I was at my parent’s house on New Years Day with Jen and my daughter, Evy. I walked into my Dad’s workshop (he’s a 3rd generation watchmaker by trade), where he showed me this 100 year-old clock he was restoring…
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ATI x1600 + Ubuntu 8.10 + Xorg 7.4 = Meh
I made an impulsive decision today to upgrade my Ubuntu box from 8.04 LTS to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). In hind sight, that was not the best move, as I didn’t do any research, just made a slight change in the…
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PC World reports 38 percent revenue from online
When I was at PC World, I explained to anyone who’d listen that our editorial strategy was pretty simple: We had to be a Web site that had a magazine, not a magazine that had a Web site. That philosophy…
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RIP! A remix manifesto
RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to this project, helping to…
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Courage to create
UPDATED: I added some further thoughts on why I think MB Design is being really brave Mark Boulton and his team are the bravest designers I (don’t) know. [stag_intro]Designers all know that design by committee doesn’t work. However, can design…