Monthly Archives: February 2009

Dear Verizon: Make Microsoft fix Windows Mobile, or I’m switching to AT&T

I’ve been using PDA’s since 3 months after the first Palm debuted. Love ‘em. Loved the Palm. Because I worked at Verizon (then AirTouch), I was able to get my hands on one of the very first smart phones, which … Continue reading

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Holy crap! Caligari trueSpace 7.6 is now FREE! I repeat: HOLY CRAP!

I’m a dabbler in many design software programs. I taught myself Photoshop, InDesign and Quark Xpress to a pretty reasonable degree (since I do it for a living, and my boss may read this, let’s assume “reasonable degree” means “highly … Continue reading

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Learning to hunt — Newsweek gets it wrong… and insults a whole bunch of us in the process

I subscribe to Newsweek, and generally enjoy it. Any pub with regular articles by Fareed Zakaria is worth keeping on the nightstand. This last week, though, there was an article about how President Obama’s use of a Blackberry is, well… … Continue reading

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New poem: The conversation

What art is choicer than the talk? A thousand thousand colors paint the clip snip nip nibble bubble pop of you and me while we bob for puns, slip flirt, nudge points, poke parody inside, joke, tumble, prop the social … Continue reading

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John Hodgman RIP: another hero bites the dust

On “The Daily Show” yesterday (or Wednesday; I TiVo it, so I don’t recall), John Hodgman, the show’s resident “expert” gave us his thoughts on how to cure the economy in a new segment called, “You’re Welcome” (below): The Daily … Continue reading

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What every company, service or product wishes somebody would do for them.

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