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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 [...]
Last night I saw a special on the OLPC computers in our area, and whether they’re making a difference. The results seemed to be disappointing. Then today I saw this article today about how a school board had made a bad hardware decision and had to void a contract. It contained this quote at the [...]
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 [...]
Who didn’t own an Atari in the 70′s or 80′s? We didn’t! We had Sears “Tele-games”, which was the Sears Toughskin version of the Atari VCS (later called the 2600). It was effectively identical, but we had only ever seen the Sears version Youtube has tons of Atari ads out there. But here’s one from [...]
From about ages 8-12, Showbiz Pizza held fun of near mythical proportions. Back then Showbiz had one of the best collections of videogames, and the nature of the visit meant you were going to be playing for hours. Chuck E. Cheese is a shadow of that culture–primarily focused on younger kids and ticket-producing games. This [...]
This one’s pretty early….I believe it was while I was in kindergarten. Behold the Kenner X-wing Fighter. 93% of all male children in the 70′s had at least one Kenner Star Wars toy…. …..of those, 60% had parents that said “hold on to those, they’ll be collectors items one day”. ….which lasted about 15 minutes. [...]
From the time we had an Apple II in our school, I wanted a computer. I would build cardboard computers at home to pretend I had a computer. Around 5th grade, I guess good ol’ dad got a little too worried about his son staring at cardboard. He decided to take action. We moved during [...]
Technically I’m a member of Generation X, which was the first generation to really realize just how much time you could waste while trying to make Microsoft products work. The love of such futility didn’t come from nowhere. We had plenty of practice as children the 70′s and 80′s drinking deep from the unsatisfying fountain [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a great post from Albert Mohler. It’s encouraging to see this kind of thing from a leader of Southern Baptists. In particular, here is the best part: Twitter has changed my prayer life. More than any development in years, Twitter helps me to know what is going on in the lives of many friends [...]
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 [...]
As I’ve mentioned, slowly but surely all of our debt is flowing toward the federal government. Most of this process is not visible, but sometimes you get small windows into one of the waterfalls in this toxic river. Here’s one. Fannie Mae needs 19 billion. They get this by selling stock to the gubmint, who [...]
My ‘official’ job and career is CTO of a financial institution….so I’m always studying how people use technology. Here’s a great article by a friend of mine on technology (in this case, databases) in the church. I thought I’d add a couple tidbits to Eugene’s very insightful analysis of databases. First, a good technology solution [...]
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 [...]
I have become somewhat of an Apple guy. From a cool perspective, both my CD’s were recorded on Mac’s. From a geek perspective, it had me a “terminal window”. So the last two large computer purchases have been Apple laptops. I even used an iMac as my main computer at work for a few months. [...]
These are the first iphone apps that I actually bought: They’re still half-baked from a feature perspective, but they’re pretty cool. Definitely handy music idea apps. I sat around a played with bloom for 15 minutes in my car. Which even made sense without taking drugs.
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