30 Jul
I feel great!
Point of View!
It’s all about where you’re lookin at it from.
Remember that awesome picture of Obama speaking in Berlin on July 24?
Did you see all those digital cameras?
Did you wonder what their pictures look like?
Check it out.
Watching them watch Obama watching Obama watching them.
McCain runs a cowardly sleazy ad, early
0. Here’s [...]
29 Jul
Streamfile looks really cool
It solves a problem we all have.
http://www.streamfile.com/
I want to send a big file to someone who may or may not be very tech savvy. Look at all the steps they save, assuming you have a place to store a 2GB file, which most people don’t.
I just sent a song [...]
28 Jul
Knol is Google’s Wikia
Wikia is Jimmy Wales’ dream of doing to Google what Wikipedia did to Britannica. Unfortunately for Wales and his investors, Google had a 10-year lead, and a huge ecosystem had been built up around it. Google is a thriving coral reef, and one doesn’t just show up one day with an idea [...]
26 Jul
The coolest thing about DirecTV
At first it was a little unsettling getting used to a new way of watching TV, but I’m beginning to like the way DirecTV works. The coolest feature so far is the ability to program the DVR over the web. I don’t know if Comcast has this, I never found it [...]
25 Jul
Nice to get support from the Guardian
We’re all on our own when a BigCo decides to throw its weight at us, but being a well-read blogger has its advantages, esp when a columnist at a big newspaper believes you. Thanks to Charles Arthur for the air cover. Contrast this to the NY Times piece that [...]
24 Jul
Chin-dropping photo
An astounding AP photo of Barack Obama waving to his fans in Berlin earlier today. I saw this one scroll by on a large HDTV and couldn’t believe my eyes. There’s so much detail in the picture, so many stories, so many cameras!
This is the really cool thing about FlickrFan, btw — the [...]
23 Jul
TechJunk picking up steam
Tech.NewsJunk.Com was born on the 4th of July, just like the United States of America. I chose a holiday so the expectations wouldn’t be too high, cause I knew at first it would be hard to find the kinds of stories I was looking for, news about products. Not interested in mergers [...]
22 Jul
Poster for Obama rally in Berlin
Future-safe archives, again
I was on a cleanup and backup binge today, and came across a folder on one of my disks entitled Trade Secrets in a place where it didn’t belong. I did a search on my LAN and found it was my only copy, not just here, but on [...]
21 Jul
VPs coming soon
Friends close to both campaigns say the announcements of the Republican and Democratic choices for vice-president are likely coming within the week. At that the announcements will be unusually late.
No speculation on the choices from the sources, however — I have a strong feeling that McCain will pick Romney. Seems like an [...]
20 Jul
Amazon S3 down all day
As you can see, we host most of our images on Amazon S3. As do many other sites.
It’s been a marvel of uptime, until it goes down. And today’s outage is the worst so far (there have only been two others). I’m sure they’re working their butts off to get [...]
