Category Archives: Technology

May 17, 2013
Technology: It was easier when we just bought CDs

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Back in my day….yeah, that’s how this one starts but I’m really curious. Am I just getting old or is the music situation still a mess?  Two years ago, I wrote about the Boxee Box and how it was overall a disappointment creating problems for me but not necessarily blaming Boxee. The IPTV market is [...]

April 10, 2013
The 1st Generation Nike FuelBand (new version?)

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My review of the Nike FuelBand that was posted in July of 2012 is mostly unchanged. The software is still clunky, the band heavy and the overall data collected is minimal and often inaccurate. Driving in a car for 8 hours and reaching my fitness goal is not what I’d call accurate but, the graphs [...]

March 20, 2013
On Hard Drives, Clouds and Data Reliability….I’m getting old.

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Life in the cloud. Google that. You’ll find a lot of results for cloud storage, computing and a few things about Jesus. Let’s talk about the cloud. My iTunes library exceeds 2 terabytes. The size of my first laptop was 15 gigabytes. It was a 600Mhz iBook 12″ and, according to my buddy Dennis Sellers [...]

January 28, 2013
Another reason why AirBNB Rocks!!!

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In a follow up on this post from last year, I found this on TaskRabbit for San Francisco. It’s a job posted by AirBNB: Wow. AirBNB is so cool. Using Task rabbit to send things to a sick employee. Just awesome. What a very cool company. 

January 14, 2013
100 to 3 Megabits in the span of a day…

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The few hundred readers that have been stopping by this blog since the very beginning are well aware of some of my posts on MPG back in the day where I posted product reviews and technology opinion pieces from the local public library…not during business hours but around midnight sitting outside of the library so [...]

January 3, 2013
Linkage: “Offline:”

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I’ve linked to Paul Miller’s “Offline” project before. Paul is a writer at TheVerge and he’s taking a year away from the Internet and using sneaker net to send in his articles to colleagues. Occasionally, comments will be printed off for him to read. It’s an interesting thing and something I feel is fantastic.  I [...]

January 2, 2013
Ryan Block on NY Times Bits Blog – “Why I’m Quitting Instagram”

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Ryan Block is an uber cool guy. He’s the reason I started reading Engadget back in the day. I love his Apple Events Coverage at Engadget and at GDGT. Ryan and I have chatted at events and I wasn’t aware of his departure from Facebook and Instagram. The entire article on NYTimes is a VERY [...]

October 26, 2012
Reason Seven-Hundred and Something for why I remain Loyal to AirBNB…

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Yesterday morning, I realized my Pizza Cutter was missing. I looked EVERYWHERE which led me to clean up all of my kitchen drawers. Only a handful of times have things gone missing following AirBNB guests staying in my house. Most of the time, towels are taken or someone uses an entire bottle of shampoo. Once, [...]

October 23, 2012
The Canon S110; aka now is the time to by a Canon S100

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The Canon S series which was made new again about 3 years ago with the S90 happens to be my favorite digital camera series ever. These cameras fit in your front pocket, have impressive optical zoom (for the form factor), contain ultra-fast f/2.0 lenses, revolutionary controls and button layout and can shoot HD video. The [...]

June 5, 2012
TomTom’s Map Paradise Project

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I work at a cool company. I work on very cool things at this company. Some things I have worked on in the last year will be utilized in a contest where the company sends 5 families to 5 different tropical islands to use tools and methods that we do to map an island. Of [...]