April 2012
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January 2011
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IGNORE: test from tumblr
some reason or other the connections between tumblr twitter and facebook have broken. would be nice if they just merged…
November 2009
2 posts
AppleInsider | Rumored 'Google Phone' said to be... →
Google to sell their own phone?! Can’t wait to see what this will look like…
Frederick - AM 930 WFMD Online Poll for Mayor →
Hey City of Frederick - Online poll for mayor. Vote now and vote for real tomorrow!
October 2009
8 posts
Google eviscerates GPS-nav industry →
Have an Android-based phone? Then GPS-nav turn-by-turn service from Google is now free. Roll over Tom-Tom, Garmin, Nuvi as you are basically now dead.
Joint Verizon Wireless + Google "Droid" Targets... →
Starting to heat up in smartphone marketing land…
Lot's of news about Flash and Smartphones this... →
Flash 10.1 available on 19 of 20 Smartphones and Flash CS5 to support ‘save as’ iPhone app. The ‘missing number 20’ of course is Flash 10.1 for the iPhone, i.e., the Flashplayer which Apple still won’t permit. As a very nice work around, Flash CS 5 will provide a mechanism to publish a Flash app as a native iPhone app (.IPA). The value of this is pretty compelling as...
Personal Health - Parents Need to Tune In and... →
Very interesting article that indicates talking to young babies from day one is critical and not happening enough. I remember talking to Jasper about things we saw on our walks when he was 2 months old…
East Frederick Rising →
new group focused on redevelopment of Frederick, MD’s east side. Bring it on!
Fossils Shed New Light on Human Origins - WSJ.com →
New perspective on origins of the human species; details released today of “fossils from a 4.4-million-year-old human forebearer they say reveals that our earliest ancestors were more modern than scholars assumed and deepens the evolutionary gulf separating humankind from today’s apes and chimpanzees.”
Philips' Bright Future for Lightbulbs -... →
Get ready for LED screw-in light bulbs. I recently priced one of these at ~$120 PER BULB. Needless to say, I passed even if they are supposed to last 50,000 hours. They’ll need to drop significantly in price before the masses move and Philips’ move should help in that regard.
September 2009
19 posts
GM to Wind Down Saturn Brand, Dealerships on... →
Great opp to pick up a new Saturn at low. low prices. Just don’t expect to be able to get it serviced after Oct 2010…
Toyota to recall 3.8M vehicles over floor mats -... →
All you Toyota drivers out there may want to give this a read and see if your car is affected by this GIANT recall.
The School Issue - Preschool - Can the Right... →
Interesting article for all you parents of small children out there… Can right kind of play promote ‘self regulation’ in children; maybe some of us adults need to find games that promote this as well!-)
Intel unveils system-on-a-chip for TVs | Nanotech... →
Pretty cool - these system on a chip (SooC) from Intel will include native Flash 10 support.
Excerpted, “Adobe Systems was also part of the keynote. Adobe Flash Player 10 will run on the new Intel silicon to “enable for the first time a wide array of Flash-based content on the television,”
Is a 50% rise on the first day of IPO a good... →
Li-Ion Battery startup goes public yesterday and the stock is up 50% on the first day. This type of activity is almost always reported as a ‘win’ for the stock, but the reality is that it means the stock was massively mis-priced and the huge part of the value captured from the market participants went to the inside customers of the investment banks that underwrote the offering.
I am...
Adobe Unveils Flash Platform Services - Business... →
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious -... →
Great article from this past weekend’s NYTimes magazine about a book written by Carl Jung and locked away for about half a century. It is his personal journal where he recorded his dreams including detailed drawings of various monsters conjured by his subconscious. He claimed a lot of the ideas directly influenced the path his research and resulting methodology of dream analysis took. The...
Palm Axes Windows Mobile Phones -- InformationWeek →
Palm CEO announces they are no longer developing for the Windows Mobile platform and instead will focus on their own WebOS. This may be a sign of weakness for Palm and driven by a desire to save money by not having to pay Microsoft royalties. Per the article it weakens Microsoft’s market share in the burgeoning smartphone market.
Entrepreneur Steve Ells: Starting Chipotle From... →
Eat at Chipotle’s? Here are great interview with the creator of the chain. He originally trained as a chef with hopes of starting a high end restaurant and opened the first Chipotle’s to generate cash for it. Chipotle’s is now the largest global purchaser of hormone free, sustainabley raised chicken and pork and likely done more to raise awareness for the nuitritional and...
Pandora - Desktop App built on Adobe AIR →
Their 2.0 version of the ‘Pandora One Desktop App’ was just released. It’s built on Adobe AIR. The article is pretty brief and doesn’t get to the benefits of building an app on AIR, which of course is cross-platform portability…
AppleInsider | Live from Apple's "It's Only Rock... →
In case you are bored at work and just NEED to know what Apple’s gonna announce today - load this Live report from the floor by AppleInsider and you’ll get realtime updates on everything Apple says…
HTC Announces the Tattoo - The first 'free... →
Details have not been released but the expectation is that the HTC Tatoo will be free with a 2 year service contract. So - it’s not entirely free as some analysts predict a future 3-way collaboration with Google, handset provider(s), and cellular network operator(s) will be, but it is a step in that direction as these phones typically cost several hundreds of dollars without an annual...
Amend the Constitution and make Health Care a...
If you are reading this you probably saw one or more of your FB friends post as their status update yesterday something along the lines of ‘no one should die because they can’t afford access to health care”. Anyone with some compassion will find that hard to refute. If one takes that position another question you should ask is, “Is health care a right, or not, as determined...
DRUDGE REPORT: Needlessly Alarmist? You Decide... →
Incendiary Media Fanning Flames - Despite tons and tons of information/evidence that unemployment lags during an economic rebound, the press continues to react to news that unemployment is rising like the sky is falling….
Frederick Gazette endorses Jason Judd as... →
Jason Judd’s campaign for mayor got a huge boost today with an endorsement from The Gazette.
reason.tv - Videos > Jerome Tuccille on "Gallo Be... →
Jerome Tuccille, my father-in-law, interviewed on Reason.TV about his new book “Gallo Be Thy Name”, described as a “mesmerizing story of true crime, murder, Prohibition, family drama, and capitalism.”
August 2009
13 posts
Sony's E-Reader vs. Kindle: 5 Reasons Amazon... →
Sony fires a bazooka at Amazon’s Kindle. More choice for consumers (always a good thing, unless we’re talking about another configuration of toothpaste…) and Sony’s embrace of the ePUB open standard is nice.
Apple 'continues to study' Google Voice for... →
Apple and Google continue to tussle over Google Voice for the iPhone. AT&T said they weren’t involved in App store approval process for Google Voice; Apple says process not concluded. I.E., they have not officially blocked the application. Stay tuned as the FCC starts to crank up its investigative apparatus.
Andy Kessler: Why AT&T Killed Google Voice -... →
Scathing article about the voice communication dinosaurs. Had no idea texting cost $5000 per MgB if you don’t get an unlimited plan. Can’t wait for a low/no cost Google-Android phone with Google Voice…
HBO Goes With Adobe For 'TV Everywhere' →
Interestingly the success of Apple means the client-side environment for video consumption is more fractured and the need for cross platform tools to securely deliver high quality video over the internet favors cross-platform solutions. Does this sound like it fits the profile of that gorilla in Redmond? I don’t think so…
OpEd piece by Fredericktonian John Daniels, demo... →
This guy comes down solidly on the side of thinking long term about the environment and incorporating those concerns in strategic urban planning.
Tumblr and Twitter not cooperating today
Anyone else having trouble getting their Tumblr posts to flow through to Twitter today? Twitter is refusing my credentials from the Tumblr-Twitter config page. I just want this stuff to work!!!!!
The Frederick News-Post Online - Frederick County... →
Op-Ed piece by John Daniels, Frederick resident and Democratic candidate for alderman. If you care about the long term future of the environment, you like what he’s saying in this piece…
Organic Food No Better For You Says Influential UK... →
Duh.. - This is truly annoying and likely funded by non-organic farm lobbyists. The point of organic is that it doesn’t include toxic s*** that gives you cancer in the long run. Not that it has more nutrients. Give me a break!
July 2009
8 posts
AppleInsider | Apple's much-anticipated tablet... →
Tech Nirvana?-) We’ll see, but sounds great…
David Boies - Gay Marriage and the Constitution →
David Boies has decided to throw his considerable legal intellect into overturning California’s Prop 8 and penned an Op-Ed piece explaining why he’s teaming up with Ted Olson to do so. The op-ed piece lays down one of the most articulate arguments against any restrictions on letting gays marry.
Definitely worth a read and probably forwarding to as many people as you can…
Review: HTC Hero →
Kudos to former roomie E. David Ellington for sending this link along. Great review of the new HTC ‘Hero’ Android-based smart phone. Short version: they love it, think it is better than the Palm Pre and thinks Apple better watch out.
I like that it runs Flash.
AppleInsider | Google Voice released for Android... →
This might be what I have been waiting for (see earlier posts on VOIP phones sprinkled around the house, e.g., like iPod Touches once they cost $59 a piece). I wasn’t quite sure how to have multiple VOIP clients in the house and have them all ring when a call came in. Google Voice just might be the answer…
Late in the article is says, “Through the configurable service, calls...
Feeling 'Frederick Political'? Get involved this...
Feel like helping the Jason Judd campaign for mayor of Frederick? Then come out 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday to help with the canvassing effort. We’re starting from the bandshell in Baker Park.Should be a lot of fun and remember, the future of Frederick is at stake. What do you want Frederick to look like in 20 years?
Exxon Sinks $600M Into Algae-Based Biofuels in... →
Huge bet by Exxon on bio-fuel. “Exxon is joining a biotech company, Synthetic Genomics Inc., to research and develop next-generation biofuels produced from sunlight, water and waste carbon dioxide by photosynthetic pond scum.”