Another blog post written at 32,000 feet as that is when the issue hit me. I have various electronic devices as my dedicated reader knows. I have previously talked about various data access connection challenges. This new challenge is not one of my own doing. It is a poor user experience or use case definition. This problem was illustrated by Amazon and their Kindle applications, but it does not apply to just them. This challenge happens to many applications beyond this example.
Feb 152011
I recently read an article on Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/sony-lawsuit-factory/) that Sony is suing to stop people from posting instructions on how to modify a PlayStation 3 to be able to play additional games. By additional games I do not mean just pirated games, but also home brew games. I value intellectual property and keeping piracy down, but also think that stifling the ability to use hardware as you see fit is a bad thing.
Feb 022011
Over the past few weeks there has been talk about Net Neutrality, including the FCC making rulings. I will be the first to admit that me writing about the issue is a little late, as the decisions have already been made. The decisions are not final and with Joe Lieberman now wanting to be able to turn off the Internet it is time for us to get more involved with the issues.
Jan 192011
I had the opportunity to see Disney’s World of Color show from a unique angle, the side. The show takes place in the Disney California Adventure’s lagoon. In the lagoon is a collection of approximately 1,200 fountains, video projectors, lasers, mist machines, fog machines, projection domes… and other cool things. Most of the fountains have [more]
Jan 182011
It has been interesting to see how language has changed in just the past ten years. To me it appears that the usage of the English language has changed to be much more phonetically driven than textually driven. This change would be much more transparent if society was more aural in communication than textual. I [more]
Dec 192010
I wonder if the price of storage has made people into digital hoarders? So that we have so much information stored just because we can. We don’t really feel the impact of storing all this data, every so often we just go buy more space to put stuff. Are we even aware of what we have the information? When I say information or data, I am not just meaning banking data, contact information, word processing documents, e-mails, but everything that is stored on a hard drive.
Oct 132010
Hello dear reader. It has been a while since I had more than 140 characters’ worth of time to write recently. This statement is not a complaint it is a fact. The reason for this situation is that I have been working on my photo processing skills of photos I have taken.
May 232010
I have found a few things out over the past few weeks that I figure I will share with you my faithful reader. I have had a logic controller failure on my MacBook Pro which meant that I was sans laptop for approximately 10 days. The day after I received it, less than 12 hours [more]
When I say “Thousands of Images” it is not hyperbole. My faithful reader will remember that about at the first of the year I started going through my images since 2000. This undertaking has taken much longer than I expected. I have just reached the point of having enough duplicates removed that I can start reviewing [more]
Apr 012010
This past week, another chink occurred in my experience with Apple and Macintosh as the premium solution. I am not sure that I am the only one having these issues with the system “that just works”. In my case it did not “just work” and I don’t think my questions and ideas were that hard [more]
