Hot-Linking
Remember back in the day, when you’d find some cool picture on the ‘net, and you’d copy it’s URL and paste it in some website you ran, and then the person at the hosting site would get all mad and…
So Is The iPhone A Good Phone?
When the iPhone came along in 2007, many people were immediately disappointed, including me, that it was tied at the hip to AT&T. In retrospect, that set the stage for what was to follow. Immediately many iPhone users began to…
Waxing Nostalgic
The year was 2005. The month was November. The setting was the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California. The event was the first podcast media expo. The phenomenon of podcasting, brought to life by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, was…
Mobile Broadband – Not Quite There Yet
Yesterday I helped my mom buy a new laptop. Her ACER had finally bit the dust in a blaze of fiery wireless glory (don’t ask, it will just make you sad). I bought her a shiny new HP G-series laptop…
Why I Don’t Trust Online Voting
Every fall, we start to hear about a bigger push for online voting for our major elections. I am one of those in the category of being firmly against online voting. There is too much room for things to go…
The eBay Problem
When eBay was fresh and shiny and new, I spent a lot of time there. I bought things that I needed, sold things that I didn’t need, and had good experiences. It was like going garage saling without having to…
Charging Us More For Your Failures Won’t Make us Like You Better
Verizon announced yesterday that they are doubling their early terminations fees, to reach as much as $350 for some users. I have never understood the use of early termination fees as an alternative to providing service people want in the…