Too close for missiles; switching to guns….

Navigating the changing IE landscape

Monday, October 18th, 2010 Posted in Design, Development | Comments Off

Now that the IE 9 beta is available, people have started popping up on some of the stats of a few of the websites I maintain, and this is proving to be just as troublesome as just about every other ...

Merge multiple columns into a new column in Excel

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Development | 2 Comments »

I was asked today to help out a colleague with merging 3 columns in an Excel spreadsheet into a single column for better formatting into a mailing address. Seems simple enough, right? So I thought. So I headed downstairs engulfed fully ...

Apple could learn a thing or two from Microsoft

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Development, Op/Ed | Comments Off

Apple takes a lot of heat from it's developers for its processes and rules regarding iPhone application development mainly because of poor decisions, lack of communication and the simple fact that they don't embrace their developers. This is further emphasized ...

Amazon’s OLPC Program – Just in time to get your Holiday Geek-on

Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments Off

Just in time for the holidays, Amazon has launched their OLPC Program today enabling the world to get an XO if they Give One.These are actually pretty sweet little lappys if you are in the mood to shell out $400 ...

New Microsoft ads beat the Mac ads: because they are nicer….

Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Marketing | Comments Off

The two new Microsoft ads are engaging because of the strangely familiar interaction between Gates and Seinfeld, which really does read like an old Seinfeld episode (no real surprise there). They are also ambiguous enough to be entertaining rather than ...