Archive for the 'General' Category
Hey, I won something!
Monday, May 17th, 2010You know those Internet sweepstakes that just about every website seems to host. The ones that end up getting you spam every couple of days, and that no one seems to win. I won one of them. OK, it was the Esquire Augmented Reality give-away, and I only won one of the fifty webcams (Blue [...]
Of iPads and eBooks
Thursday, May 13th, 2010The best thing about the iPad is that it removes the clutter from reading. Traditionally, there’s a stack of books next to my bed that I’m currently “reading”, which is to say that I’ve started them, and not finished any. With the iPad (and the iPhone before it), I have that stack of books in [...]
Computers, Cars, and a Tale of Two Apples
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Here’s great article about the ideological path from open computing to computing appliance and the two Steve’s of Apple that were at the vanguard of pushing both ends of that spectrum: Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad. – By Tim Wu – Slate Magazine. I have long contended that computers [...]
