Amazon’s OLPC Program – Just in time to get your Holiday Geek-on
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffJust 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 OffThe 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 ...
Amazing project from the University of Washington & Microsoft
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Design, Development, Geeking Out, Photography | Comments OffLet's face it, Flickr has brought photography to the front lines again with its friendly and accessible interface providing a visual platform for more than 1 million users and some 30 million photographs*. Even with the UI's celebrity for being ...
When XP goes bad….
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Blatherings | 3 Comments »This last Wednesday night was fairly unremarkable - just another night really, until about 10 pm when all hell broke loose on my desktop here at home. For a day or so my AV had been telling me it updated ...
Windows Vista – Still on the horizon
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Gaming, Geeking Out, Op/Ed | Comments OffI've been working with Vista almost every day now for nearly 6 months and my impressions of the newest OS from Microsoft haven't deviated much from my initial impressions. I continue to be plagued by problems and anomalies which seem ...
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