They are so 2004. According to Paul Boutin, in the November 2008 issue of Wired, personal blogs should be retired. With the dominance of professional blogs, trolls, and time limitations, Twitter seems the obvious choice for the 2008 blogger. He explains: When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Happy Turkey Day
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Eat, drink, and be merry — I know that the latter usually comes with the former two. We’re in the mountains for the next couple of days visiting family and overindulging. Hope everyone is happy and remembers how privileged we are to live in the US. More photos from our family [...]
New Honda Insight
I remember that the original Insight was before its time (like Apple’s Newton), so it didn’t do very well and it’s life was short-lived. It was rated at 70MPG, and it still seems like it’s the best fuel/electric hybrid, even today. Honda unveiled its new Insight at the LA motor show last week, and it [...]
I Spoke too Soon
I’m really tired of being treated like a criminal. When are these big companies going to learn: the more they try to break my digital devices, the faster they will lose? The more they try to control their digital content with DRM, the more they damage themselves? They might be able to keep their content [...]
TiVo!
Well, we’re TiVo people again. Thanks to Circuit City going out of business here, we were able to score an HD TiVo box for $80. We had been thinking about ditching cable, but with the addition of more HD channels and now a brand new TiVo, we’ll be holding on to cable for a while. [...]
God Is a Comedian
From today’s Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of Voltaire, (books by this author) the man who helped spark the Enlightenment in France, born François-Marie Arouet in Paris (1694). He was a well-known playwright and poet. He spent most of his late life in exile, and he wrote most of his work from England. In the [...]
Pay Attention!
We seem to be in trouble. On the way into work this morning, NPR had a small snippet about what the world will probably be like in 2025. When they say “the world,” they mean human affairs, of course. Well, the US has fallen from its mighty perch, being replaced primarily by southeast Asian countries. [...]
