I recently came back from a great two week trip to China and Japan. Because I needed an international phone plan/data access, I ended up giving up my beloved DROID2 (which lacks international roaming/data) for two weeks and using the iPhone 4 my company had given me. Because much has changed in the year and [...]
Many students trying to pick classes/majors in college will end up consulting with their counselors/academic advisors who, in turn, will almost always reply with very generic advice along the lines of: “study what you love”. But as my girlfriend once pointed out, the problem with asking academic advisors that question is that academic advisors tend [...]
I was asked recently by a friend about my thoughts on the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. While people a heck of a lot smarter and more articulate than me have weighed in, most of it has been focused on finger-pointing (who’s to blame) and judgment (do they actually stand for anything, “its the Tea Party [...]
If it hasn’t been clear from posts on this blog or from my huge shared posts activity feed, I am a huge fan of Google Reader. My reliance/use of the RSS reader tool from Google is second only to my use of Gmail. Its my main primary source of information and analysis on the world [...]
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I would lose my tech commentator license if I didn’t weigh in on the news of Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. So, without further ado, four quick thoughts on “Googorola”: This is a refreshingly bold move by Google. Frankly, I had expected Google to continue its fairly whiny, defensive path on this for some time [...]
Up until now, I haven’t felt like it was important to comment on the situation with the US debt ceiling. My understanding had been that the entire thing was just political theater and that both parties would eventually shut up, realize that they all had too much to lose, that there were too many interests [...]
I would lose my status as a tech commentator/blogger if I didn’t add yet another blog post to the volume of posts out there that have already been written about Google Plus, Google’s new social networking service. While a lot of what has been written is either focused on specific complaints about the product (XYZ [...]
DC Comics recently announced that they were doing a line-wide “reboot” of their comic book franchises: On Wednesday, August 31st, DC Comics will launch a historic renumbering of the entire DC Universe line of comic books with 52 first issues, including the release of JUSTICE LEAGUE by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling writer and DC Entertainment [...]
Political blogger David Frum did a quick wrap-up of “Weinergate”, the latest political “scandal”: Did or did not a New York congressman send a photo of a man’s crotch to a Seattle college student? That’s the question the American political elite has spent the past half-week debating. Silly? Degrading? Check and check. Frum spends most [...]