Congratulations to the LHC team!

March 30, 2010

Research at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider began today at 13:06 CEST, when beams collided at 7 TeV. This is a groundbreaking moment in particle physics — indeed in science itself. The research promises to give scientists insight into the earliest moments of the life of the universe and to shed light on some of the [...]

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Amazon’s “Kindle for Mac” e-mail is two days too late

March 19, 2010
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I have a Kindle.
I have a Mac.
So, naturally when Amazon announced that there would be a “Kindle for Mac” application, I was excited. So excited, in fact, that I signed up to be notified by e-mail when the application would be available.
Yesterday, I read on the blogs that the much-awaiting “Kindle for Mac” Beta had [...]

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What problem are you solving?

March 15, 2010
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In 1714, the British Parliament passed the Longitude Act, which set up a £20,000 prize to the person who could come up with a way to accurately determine longitude (where you are East-to-West) for a ship at sea. This was a major business problem for shipping between Europe and the New World that needed to [...]

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iPad: “Only” a Big iPod Touch?

January 28, 2010

Yesterday Steve Jobs introduced the world to Apple’s latest creation, the iPad. Say what you will about the name (you may have seen links to an old MADtv sketch for a completely different product of the same name), I believe Apple delivered a fantastic product. Does it live up to the hype? If it worked [...]

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One giant leap into tabloid journalism (WTF CNN?)

July 20, 2009

CNN pisses me off. Here it is, the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. At once, humanity’s single greatest technological achievement, greatest mission of exploration and greatest testament to the best within us all. What story leads their technology section of cnn.com? “Conspiracy buffs say moon landing is a lie.”

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Universal to produce “Asteroids” movie; will it be better than “World of Warcraft”?

July 3, 2009

Yup, that’s right … according to Variety, Universal Studios will produce a full-length feature film based on the classic 1979 Atari video game Asteroids.

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The metric system is a liberal plot?

July 2, 2009

In a commentary on CNN.com, John Feeheryrants a bit about the implications of Al Franken being seated as Minnesota Senator, giving Senate democrats a filibuster-proof majority. Yes, Senate Dems, according to Feehery, will overreach their bounds, trying to impose evil things on an unwary public. Dreaded things. Horrible things. Things like … the metric system.

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GoDaddy Support: All is forgiven

July 1, 2009

In my last post, I bitched about getting crappy technical support from GoDaddy. I was truly shocked because their tech support is usually excellent. So, I decided to give them another shot.

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GoDaddy Support: super-friendly but not very competent

June 29, 2009

I use GoDaddy to host my websites and e-mail. I’ve used them for years and never had any complaints. Their tech support has always been excellent. So, this past weekend, I was shocked to get such poor support from them.

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Apple Store employees: competent but not super friendly

June 25, 2009

[My iPhone drama continued]

I went to my local Apple Store to meet with a Genius. Getting an appointment was easy to do online. I was helped right on time at 8:45pm. The Genius was knowledgeable and was able to quickly replace my defective screen. The entire process was easy and painless.

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