Geek Stuff
First day with the iPhone 3GS
One thing I have to say about the original iPhone is that it was the only cell phone I owned since getting my first one around 1994 that I didn’t want to get rid of after six months. It was the phone that showed the cell phone makers that the technology really needed to be [...]
Amish iPhone apps
Seeking to break into the market of people that shun technology, Apple will be marketing iPhone OS 3.0 to the Amish people of the United States. Listed below are the top 10 Amish iPhone apps. iChurn – This classic iPhone app will tell you exactly how many churns you need to make in order to [...]
Welcome to my new home
So, over the years I had a few domain names that I called home, but none of them really felt like home. I think I got more excited that I found a domain that wasn’t squatted and tried to shoehorn my home into it, but instead I felt that the name didn’t fit and tried [...]
Sprint needs a lesson in customer service optimization
Just before Podcamp NYC in April, 2008, I bought EVDO from Sprint for my Mac. Other than problems with activating the device, I really haven’t had any problems. However, since I got the service, the credit card I used to autopay my bill had expired. I came home today to a “past due” bill and [...]
Patience dot net
In this world of “ZOMG you don’t own your real name as a domain name?”, I fought very hard to decide if I really cared enough to get my real name as a .com or .net. I found that as time went on, it would be better to have it, at least in my back [...]
Adios, DirecTV
I can’t remember exactly when we got DirecTV, but I know exactly why. Back before the days of digital cable and HDTV, Comcast was the only wired solution in our area. However, the picture was always horrendous with diagonal wavy lines and analog crosstalk, it was completely unwatchable. The only solution was to get a [...]
Plurk survived WWDC, Twitter did not
Yesterday was Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Fransisco, California. Despite how the media will tell you that Apple is a gnat in the computing world, thousands of nerds take their pilgrimage to San Fransisco to meet up with other nerds and talk about C, Cocoa, CoreFoundation, Objective C, and other odd terms not [...]
12-step program for converting from Twitter to Plurk
1. Tell everyone on Twitter you love them and you’ll miss them. 2. Tell everyone on Twitter to move to Plurk. 3. Decide what you’re going to do with your time now that there’s no wait between responses. 4. Work on that karma! 5. Beg the Plurk developers for an API. [...]
Plurk me
Plurk is a new micro-blogging service from Canada. Riding on the heels of Twitter’s current problems and an endorsement from Leo Laporte, it provides not only the standard 140-character micro-blogging service that everyone loves from Twitter, it adds several new features. Some are attractive, some are…not. “plurk is hard it has instructions” – irina slutsky [...]
Where's (isn't) Waldo?
About a year or so ago, my aunt and uncle wanted to have a new carpet installed in their home. They worked with the installers to determine a time that they can come over to install the carpet based on their work schedule. They said that looking back, they apparently gave too much information about [...]
