Archive for January, 2008
Second Skin trailer is up
Back in March of 2007, Ren and I were filmed for the documentary “Second Skin”. It’s been along time, but the guys at Pure West Docs finally got the trailer together. It looks better than I expected it to, and I can’t wait to see it. It follows the lives of seven gamers, and how [...]
Forget the paperless office!
I finally figured out why I hate reading documents on a screen. I knew I hated it before but couldn’t quite put my finger on the reason. It’s the quality of the text. When you read a document on screen, the text quality is compromised. On paper, the text is much easier to read. I [...]
For love of Entourage
I love Entourage. For those of you that don’t know what it is, it’s the Mac version of Outlook. I love the app to death, and I’ve used it for years. The problem is that it’s starting to show its age, even though it’s been rock solid for me, even when using the old PPC [...]
Sorry, you can’t watch that in HD
Yesterday, Apple announced that it will have HD movies for rent. What they didn’t tell you directly was that you needed an Apple TV in order to watch the HD rentals. They made it sound like you could watch the HD rentals on your computer through iTunes, but that’s not the case. Buried deep in [...]
Who do we belong to?
A few months ago I was working on a blog post about data security which I never got around to finishing. This issue with Robert Scoble rekindled that. I’ll sum it up for those of you that don’t know: Robert was using a Facebook app to scrape data from Facebook so that he can use [...]
What I learned in 2007
I have to say, 2007 was a crappy year for me. Here’s a list of things I learned. 1) Family > everything. 2) Never go into business with someone you’ve known for less than three months. That’ll give you enough time to see the happy/sad/sober/drunk/depressed side of them, and see how they treat you. Usually, [...]
