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Replaced by iPhone April 13th, 2010 @ 7:10 am PDT

I noticed my alarm clock sitting forlornly on my bedside table last night as I was going to sleep. It got me thinking about all the things I no longer use. Sure, we all know that CDs have been replaced by mp3s and VCRs have been replaced by DVRs and DVDs. But there is a […]

Adventures with Microsoft Support January 27th, 2010 @ 7:30 am PST

In which Microsoft has me running around in circles

The Google Segway August 7th, 2009 @ 11:25 am PDT

Remember the Segway? It was supposed to revolutionize human transportation. Remember the hype? It was everywhere. It was amazing. And now years later it’s nowhere. The day we all finally got to see a Segway I felt just about exactly the same way I felt when I finally got to see Google Wave: It’s nifty, […]

Twitter November 24th, 2008 @ 7:42 pm PST

I love Twitter. I joined when I was at SXSW2006 and forgot all about it until about six months ago. I’ve been enjoying it tremendously lately. Just today I finally convinced Kelly to install Twitterific. And now … Shaquille O’Neal is posting tweets.

Easy Passwords November 6th, 2008 @ 7:02 pm PST

I have a friend who has a ridiculously simple password that he uses for almost everything. Now, I’m not going to get into all the many reasons that this is a bad idea. You already know that you shouldn’t use the same password for everything, right? And that you shouldn’t use something really easy to […]

The Lord Knows the Score September 4th, 2008 @ 6:06 pm PDT

Every year around this time I get to enjoy one of my all-time favorite acronyms. (You know I’m an acronymphomaniac, right?) All of the important data utilized by the National Football League is stored in the “Game Statistics & Information System” — GSIS. As far as the NFL is concerned, GSIS is awesome and GSIS […]

Save, Backup, Trust No One August 8th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm PDT

For years now I’ve subscribed to Mark Hurst‘s Good Experience newsletter. This week he wrote A Warning Sign on the Way to Digital Utopia, which should be required reading for anyone that owns a computer. Less than twelve hours ago I sadly had to repeat a conversation I’ve had dozens — if not hundreds — […]

Large Hadron Collider August 1st, 2008 @ 2:39 pm PDT

The comments on these amazing photos of the Large Hadron Collider are almost as awesome as the machine.

New iPhone: Day One July 14th, 2008 @ 9:24 am PDT

Seventeen hours have passed since I upgraded to the new iPhone. Can it possibly be too early for me to make sweeping generalizations and pass judgment? No. I didn’t think so either. The folks at Apple sort of painted themselves into a corner on this one. The original iPhone was just so incredibly, amazingly, stupendously […]