I usually reserve this blog for techie geek stuff. I don’t generally write about personal things on this blog, or anywhere online for that matter. Talking about this is hard for me. I moved my political posts to a separate…
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Getting ready for a post-car America
Without a doubt, the 20th century was the century of the car. Automobiles came into their own and changed the culture in America and across Europe. Before the car, people lived in the city and worked in the city, or…
Save The Date: Internet-Wide Day Of Action February 27
The FCC is repealing net neutrality, but we can stop them by using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Get ready for Operation: #OneMoreVote, a major Internet-wide day of action, Tuesday, February 27, to secure the final vote needed to pass…
I won’t shed a tear for Microsoft
People have told me they feel sorry for Microsoft these days, that we should be thanking them for all they have done for the industry, that Bill Gates should be praised for “placing a PC on every desktop.” I see…
FastCompany says the Internet wrecked the California economy
The article by Douglass Rushkoff, How the Tech Boom Terminated California’s Economy, blames the Internet for not only California’s current economic mess, but also for “undermining America’s biggest industry–finance.” It’s an interesting, theory, that is probably worth a read. Personally…
Apple obsoletes PowerPC Macs
According to announcements today at WWDC, the next release of Mac OS X, OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, will not support PowerPC-based Macs. I find this pretty annoying. I like to get my money’s worth out of a machine. Now Apple…
eComm 2009 right around the corner
The conference takes place in San Francisco March 3-5. If you’re interested in where communications is heading, including voice, video, and social services, ecomm 2009 is the place to be. I’ll be giving a 5 minute lightning presentation on Harnessing…
“Skype is open” argument – not even wrong
I won’t waste a lot of bits on this. The case of Skype being open can be rejected immediately and indisputably with the simple fact that there is no published IP network specification for communicating with the service. Done. Nothing…
Historical footnote
Today I sold my last Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) (formerly SUNW) stock – at a net loss of about 80%. I was looking pretty smart back in 2000-2001. Even though to a large degree I had lost faith in SUN,…
McCain Leaves GM Plant To Chants Of “Obama 08”
McCain reassures GM factory workers that their situaion is not their fault. Whew! That’s a relief. Thanks, John.
