We went skiing in Utah last week. The snow wasn’t great. But we had the most amazing family trip we’ve ever had, all because of where we stayed: the Peruvian Lodge at Alta. If you’ve been there, you know: It’s been around since 1950, and it’s not the swankiest place in the world. A lot… Read more »
I’m a couple weeks into the experiment and one thing that strikes me is that I’m really not missing Android, which is odd because that’s the adjustment I had expected to find the most difficult. There are lots of little things that I like about the Android software. And in terms of hardware I really… Read more »
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece for Newsweek about Highlight and Glancee, two apps that combine GPS data with your Facebook profile so that you can find people who are physically nearby you and see who they are, what you have in common, and so on. Both apps were gearing up for SXSW,… Read more »
An old friend wrote in to ask the following regarding my “Month of Microsoft” project: Hey I’m a little late to your series but I am really curious — did the Xbox folks even mention Media Center? It’s IMHO the best Microsoft product ever; but I am afraid it is geting mothballed in favor of… Read more »
James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle says he’s an addict and describes the symptoms that will be familiar to most of us, I’m afraid. Basically it’s an inability to let go, and it is only getting worse in the age of smartphones. I’m not as intense a user as a lot of people. In… Read more »
I just found this on YouTube. It reminded me of when I worked at Forbes. Enjoy.
That’s the gist of a piece I just put up on the Daily Beast this morning, arguing that the biggest victims of Daisey’s fraud might end up being the Chinese workers he claims to care so much about. In the end he exploited those workers for his own gain. I was away on a ski… Read more »
Who knew my month of using Microsoft products would bring a bit of a mystery with it? But that seems to be the case as just now Microsoft announced it had fired two members of the Bing marketing team “for violation of company policies related to mismanagement of company assets and vendor procurement.” As Business… Read more »
The folks who run the Dell corporate blog just put up an interesting thought experiment: What could you have done with a laptop in prehistoric times? In ancient Greece? The Renaissance? It’s worth a look.
As part of this “Month of Microsoft” project I’ve been using two Windows Phone devices, a Nokia Lumia 800 (in this color) and an HTC Titan. Both awesome phones. One problem: they can’t run Swype, goddammit! Swype, FYI, is this amazing keyboard software that lets you type words just by dragging your finger over the… Read more »
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