Addendum to iPhone/DROID2

→  September 16th, 2010  →  Blog

Having written a long treatise on how the DROID 2 and iPhone 4 stack up against one another, I thought it would be good to add another post on where I thought both phones were deficient in the hopes that folks from the smartphone industry would listen intently so that my next phone choice is [...]

Droid 2 vs iPhone

→  August 30th, 2010  →  Blog

If this is the first time you’ve visited my blog, thank you for coming. Feel free to subscribe to this blog with the buttons on the right. You may also be interested in my comparison of Firefox vs Chrome. I recently came out very positive on Google in a comparison of Google’s and Apple’s respective [...]

My Google Voice story

→  May 13th, 2010  →  Blog

The power of connectivity: Today, a partner at the firm I work at wanted to call me, not realizing I was on a plane He leaves me a voice message on my phone which includes a cell phone number for me to reach him at Thankfully, I’m on a flight with WiFi Also, I have [...]

2009 in blog

→  December 31st, 2009  →  Blog

As I did with 2008 and 2007, a couple of highlights from this blog for the past year: I made quite a few changes to my blog, including updating my Feedburner feed, installing Disqus and ShareThis, and moving the blog over to my own hosted site and making the jump from Blogger to WordPress Ended [...]

Off to training

→  October 6th, 2009  →  Blog

I’m sitting in an airport waiting for my flight to a training program that my firm holds for third year associates. That’s good — because two years of not knowing what I’m doing really needs to end . Looking forward to returning to the blogosphere when I return (next week)! Albeit, I’ll be out of [...]

Upgrade

→  May 26th, 2009  →  Blog

I had the pleasure of upgrading my Blackberry to use the latest version of RIM’s operating system (version 4.5) last Friday. I had intended to do it myself, but I discovered that if your Blackberry is connected to a Blackberry Enterprise Server (i.e. can you check your corporate calendar/email on your Blackberry? If so, then [...]

Blackberry addict

→  April 1st, 2009  →  Blog

I love gadgets (I just don’t have enough money to buy them). It’s no wonder that over on Xhibiting, I post a lot about cool gadgets. And its no secret that I’m chained to my Blackberry. But, I stop short at preferring smartphones to women (HT: Dilbert) Sounds like somebody needs a Blackberry patch… (Image [...]

Lessons from the Consulting Life: chain yourself to your blackberry

→  March 17th, 2009  →  Blog

Yesterday, I stopped by a coworker’s desk to grab a quick morning breakfast and then to discuss our various workstreams. Given the endless teasing I get about how dependent I am on being connected via 3G wireless card and Blackberry, I thought I’d mix it up by not bringing either my laptop or my blackberry [...]

Krackberry for Kids

→  February 19th, 2009  →  Blog

It’s never too early to get kids started on the essentials for success in the professional world. Of course, that includes things like teaching them confidence, good communications skills, basic math, but it also includes the most essential thing for any savvy business person: the crackberry. But, RIM (Research in Motion, makers of our most [...]

Shadow Sculpture

→  November 27th, 2008  →  Blog

Over on Xhibiting, I just made a post about something I saw on an excursion through San Francisco’s lovely Golden Gate Park last Sunday: One exhibition, by Bay Area artist Jin Feng,  in particular, caught my eye (images from Jin’s website): They may appear, at first glance, to be merely a set of ink sketches, [...]