I write about the things I find interesting. It’s really random stuff.
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I’ve been looking at the MEAN.io stack technologies (it seems like the new hotness) and I can see this being the underlying the language for the “Internet of Things”. IoT is a term that has slowly crept up into the…
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Virtual Reality Adoption: Market Size, Affordability, Ergonomics, and Shareability
The big story of CES 2016 was the outstanding Virtual Reality demos by Oculus, HTC, and Samsung. A lot of stuff on the technology and how amazing it is has already been written, but I wanted to touch upon some of…
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The fall of Oyster and Scribd: Subscriptions might become interesting again
Interesting Tweet-storm (or at least that is what I think it is called) from Fahranheit Press, a fine purveyor of Crime Fiction. The Big 6 could have supported scalable, sustainable business models from a whole range of new entrants into the…
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Product management fundamentals: The next feature fallacy
Joshua Porter writes: The Next Feature Fallacy: the fallacy that the next feature you add will suddenly make people want to use the entire product. — Joshua Porter (@bokardo) May 14, 2015 When your product is growing and ramping up…
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Hackintosh thoughts
File this under the the First-World-Problems Dept. I have owned and used Apple computers since 1996. Here is the list: 1996: The first was shared with my brother, an Apple Performa 6400. 2002: iBook G3 600 MHz 2007: 15-inch MacBook Pro,…
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Lightning does strikes twice – Linux and Git
We all know that Linus Torvalds is the father of the Linux kernel. It’s the guts of an Operating System that can be found powering a multitude of devices, from the majority of smartphones and tablets (android), the majority of servers…
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HP T610 Plus and pfSense
When I had set up my Watchguard Firebox x550e, I replaced the two 40mm fans with silent models. I also swapped the PSU with a 90W pico PSU to make a nearly silent system. One of the replacement fans gave out…
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Thoughts on 2014 and 2015
So I’m starting to see end-of-year wrap-ups and predictions for 2015. It’s always good to take a look a back on what is happening in the industry, epecially at Kobo. Largely, a lot of the stuff I am citing is…
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Review: Into the Woods Film (2014)
I want to thank Ben and Sara for taking the kids out to Disney on Ice at the Rogers Centre this past Saturday. It’s been a while that Jen and I spent time together alone and we decided to watch…