Nature Cannot Be Fooled
« Previous EntriesThe Sad State of Technology Journalists
Sunday, June 27th, 2010It’s no secret that I don’t like most so-called “technology journalists“, men and women who are often skilled in the latter but painfully deficient in the former. Perhaps I take Mark Twain’s admonition to “write what you know” a bit too seriously, but I think it’s difficult for most journalists to wrap their heads around [...]
The Technical Equivalent of a Hammer on my Thumb
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Caveat – I am not now, nor have I ever maintained, that I am a coder. My programming classes were taken nearly half a lifetime ago in a strange little language called Ada. I knew what I was getting into when I volunteered to help some friends overhaul the web site of their production company [...]
The iPad kick’s the Kindle’s and the netbook’s – and the llama’s – ass.
Friday, January 29th, 2010The first two salvos I fired in the iPad War were tweets to my buddy John. Yes, the terribly named iPad is a dollop of iPhone with a side of Kindle, but it’s more than that. Gizmodo captured the essence of the device perfectly with their headline “The iPad is the Gadget We Never Knew [...]
Tribute to a Mac from the Poet Laureate of ‘Deep Ecology’
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh By Gary Snyder Because it broods under its hood like a perched falcon, Because it jumps like a skittish horse and sometimes throws me, Because it is poky when cold, Because plastic is a sad, strong material that is charming to rodents, Because it is flighty, Because [...]
Drag Queens, Bad Designs & Big Girls on the Red Carpet
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010I love the brouhaha that Gothamist started over the New York Times distorting a picture of Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks from the Golden Globes. Cathy Horyn, the Times resident fashion critic, beat a hasty retreat by claiming the “photo was slightly distorted inadvertently due to an error during routine processing”. Is that the technological [...]
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