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As I’ve mentioned, I’m trying out a B&N Nook and an iPad for use in corporate document delivery and overall communications. Here’s a quick snapshot of my findings. A couple notes, the Kindle didn’t make my initial cut for various reasons, primarily because it’s more of a retail outlet than an e-reader. I probably will [...]
The e-reader wars have begun. Apples iBook/iPad combo is the media darling, but the rest of the world is rapidly comoditizing in response.. B&N’s nook, Amazon’s Kindle, and Sony’s ‘something’ have all had prices slashed lately. (I would say the name of Sony’s reader except they’d probably require a royalty on the intellectual property.) B&N [...]
(“But I thtilll…love technology….) One nice thing about technology is that it tends to operate on a survival of the fittest principle. Not survival of the prettiest (Apple) or survival of the best marketing (MS) or survival of the cheapest (Linux)…but survival of the fittest. “Fittest” contains that whole basket of factors that individually miss [...]
Man…I’m getting too cynical on the blog! I need to start coming up with something fun or positive! Here…here’s an internet smiley until I can come up with a happy fun post! I b’journal’d a few weeks ago about those nekkid body scanners for airports. I also talked about how laughable it was that the [...]
You have to laugh at these assurances of privacy as the Gubmint tries to explain to us that it’s ok take naked pictures of the population before they can get on an airplane. First of all, they tell us that the images “can’t be stored” as the news reports show video of the scans. Duh. [...]
So I’m seeing all these statuses on Facebook about blocking Google from indexing you. I see these things and I have to chuckle. In the U.S., a great deal of our personal data is completely available to everyone. In some cases for just a few bucks. Have you ever wondered what happens to all of [...]
A few days ago I installed Ubuntu Linux for the first time. As an Informashun Technologies Profeshinal I had obviously installed Linux many times…both as a server and a workstation. And in typical form I’d found the experience to be typical Unixy: Great as a server, painful as a desktop. But I gotta tell ya, [...]
Here’s a great article about the problems we’re having in copyright. It’s something I’ve written on in the past, and we’re just now starting to see how truly destructive our copyright policies are. They give their own summary, but the basic gist is this. A long time ago copyright was simple: Give the people who [...]
Ray Bradbury has this to say about the internet: “The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles … “It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.” Funny thing is, you’d think the man who wrote Fahrenheit 451 would be [...]
Tim Challies has a post today that talks about iPods, Twitter, Facebook, etc. It mirrors some of Anne’s assertions from a few weeks ago: But the wise observer might ask, if I have 1600 friends, why am I so lonely? Shouldn’t at least one of those 1600 friends be available when I need help painting [...]
Had alot of fun in the data center this morning. It was sourced in the area of electricity. And to make a long story short, it was the best case of a worst case scenario. Anyone who spends any time in I.T. (or, I guess…mars landers, aviation, operating rooms, etc…..anything technical or where the failure [...]
Some posts out there in the blog world about Twittering in church: Should We Use Twitter During Church? John Piper’s take. An article from Christianity today. To me, this is pretty simple. Twittering is sometimes like talking, and sometimes like taking notes. You can tell if twittering is appropriate if it’s appropriate in any of [...]
(heh, if you read that…it sounds like “moron facebook”.) More interesting stuff from Anne regarding Facebook, Twitter, and in the general online experience. I like Anne’s site because we both seem to have spent alot of time thinking through entirely different things about the same subject. She is processing what these online communities mean and [...]
Which of these options scares you more? A picture of you in college. You are holding a “beverage” and pumping your fist in the air. Your eyes are kind of blankly staring off camera. Or, A huge company that has a database of everything you’ve ever bought…your browsing habits…your viewing habits….your income….every demographic tidbit…..and all [...]
So Circuit City is no more. If you owned stock in CC, it’s now worth nothing…as the fire sale of assets will leave no remaining value. Circuit City fell victim to one of the primary fallacies in dealing with technology. They were, after all, a company primarily involved in tech even if it was selling [...]
I saw this on Schneiers Blog: Short version: a Family’s house burned down because fire hydrants are turned off. The reason? “These hydrants need to be cut off in a way to prevent vandalism or any kind of terrorist activity, including something in the water lines,” Hodges said. Um…yeah. Not only does this not makes [...]
Amazing. Check out manual on sabatoge from the O.S.S.. (The O.S.S. eventually became the CIA). Read the handy tips on page 28 or so. Remember that these are things they recommended to destroy and organization’s effectiveness. (11) General Interference with Organisations and Production (a) Organizations and Conferences (1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never [...]
(note, watch out for some of the banner ads and links on the page below) (Also note, I messed up the link to point to the wrong website! So try it again…) This one is a little more difficult to grasp, but it illustrates the point. Every picture of a ‘beautiful’ person you see is [...]
The pastor of Church of the Highlands (another church we’ve checked out) recently started blogging. I find it to be very encouraging and effective. That is a cool thing. Other churches are actively using our project, ChurchWeblogs, to consolidate blogs of staff and members. Christ Church of the Valley is one. You can see their [...]
So now you can get all the episodes of South Park for free. Online. Downloadable. And unlike the cable versions, un-censored. All the offensive, profanity filled stuff you can handle….for free. But if you want to watch a Bible study video…have your Amex handy. Because “it’s a business” to talk about Jesus. And it’s “stealing” [...]
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