I spent much of the past week at the excellent Defrag Conference. I honestly don’t know another conference where you’ll find meaningful discussion of traveling to space, solving big data problems and why rooms in Vegas have mirrors on the…
Category: Rants ‘n’ Raves
We Pad, You Pad, Not Sure I like the iPad…
I’ve been ambivalent about the iPad since it launched, but finally had to buy one for a project I’m working on. A few days in, I’ve actually changed my mind somewhat. I still don’t love the device, but the things…
Great Googley Moogley: Fun with Google TV
I’ve spent the past few hours playing with a Sony Google TV box (the standalone Blu-ray box, not the integrated TV). To cut right to it, my first impressions are pretty favorable but with some big caveats. I chose the…
Why The Apple Will Fall…
Okay, so that’s a link-baitingly, fanboy-angering title. Caveats first. I own a _lot_ of Apple gear — iPhone, iMac, MacBookPro and lots of software — but I definitely have a love/hate relationship with them. And by fall, I don’t mean…
Nailing the Cloud and Convergence
Back in 1997 or so I had a magical tech experience. I had a desktop PC running MS Office, an HP Jornada running Windows CE and the ever-so-under-appreciated Rex Organizer card. For those of you that don’t remember such things,…