Category Archives: Linked

May 17, 2012

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SFGate:  Issue: Spotty Wi-Fi service is not available everywhere on BART despite promises that it would be available by 2010. There was some Wi-Fi on BART back in 2009 but it was spotty and rarely worked. Then there’s this little nugget: The work costs the company about $100,000 a mile, Lee said. I think I [...]

May 4, 2012

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A lot of the things I’m reading are behind pay walls. The Times and New Yorker have some free content but most of it is behind a login and a pay-wall. In the last two weeks, 5 articles have interested me enough to share on this blog along with feedback on those posts. I can’t [...]

April 30, 2012

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ShawnBlanc And I’m not the only one. Within my circle of friends, I know several people who are also using their iPad as their portable computer. I even have a handful friends who have an iPad as their only computer.It is not a sacrifice to use the iPad as a primary device. I wanted to [...]

April 13, 2012

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I’ve been without an iPad for over a month so my Instapaper queue was a bit behind. On Wednesday, my iPad arrived so I’ve been reading 6 hours a day since then. I like linking to things here but it’s best to do it as I read things that are worth sharing. So, instead of [...]

March 31, 2012

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AnandTech is the only place I read Apple reviews. The get very geeky, go into intense detail and have zero Pro-Apple slant on their tone. This site treats all technology equally and they are very critical on how products are reviewed from Android to LED displays to iPad. 20,000 words and the first thing I’ll [...]

March 5, 2012

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via Buzzfeed (can’t believe I’m linking to that atrocious site): When it comes to reviewing a new gadget, all that really matters is the answer to one simple question. Hilarious compilation of gadget reviews that joke about how a devices feels in their hand. I enjoyed skimming this. It reminds me of this post I [...]

February 13, 2012

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iMore: According to sources who have been reliable in the past, Apple currently plans to hold their iPad 3 announcement on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Along with the 2048×1536 Retina display, the iPad 3 will feature a quad-core Apple 6 system-on-a-chip, and possibly 4G LTE networking.It’s important to note that even reliable information is subject [...]

February 9, 2012

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via 4ma.me: Violet confuses the issue with: I’m not the first person to have a troubling story like this about these people. Really? Who is the first person, Violet? Got any proof of that statement? Any facts? Any names…anything? Maybe I can help…here’s an email I sent to a reader a few years ago who [...]

February 8, 2012

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via OffBeatReport: This, to me, is more than just a cleanse. And the 10 Tenets of Whole Living describe exactly what I’m hoping to get out of the next four weeks: Click through because the 10 things Lauren lists off is inspiring and worth printing off and putting on your bathroom mirror. To change our [...]

February 8, 2012

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via LaughingSquid: Are there really this many reality television shows? I’ve never heard of any of them. Each one of the titles sounds ridiculous.