I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
First the music, now the television content. It appears that NBC Universal, like Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, believes that it might get more control of pricing if they shop around. Direct control of pricing is rumor to be at the core of both moves. No one really believes that Apple knows what it’s doing where … Read more
We’re house hunting. If you’ve been watching the financial news you know this might be the worst possible time to sell a house. However, it is also a great time to be buying. So, we’re house hunting. The ready accessibility to the MLS for the counties around us makes it a lot easier. We can … Read more
When I was a kid I used to like to put numbers into the calculator – they had just been invented – and see what words I could make. Pretty quickly I discovered that 7734 spelled hell when you turned the calculator upside down. But hell is a bad word so I figured out that … Read more
“For all the attention on the love-hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, there’s another software superpower with which Apple is increasingly butting heads, Adobe.” So, the upshot of the article is that AppleTV and iPhone are in a weaker position because they don’t support Flash. Yet, YouTube is converting it’s library of video to h.264 … Read more
From this article: “Do you think it’s fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that an iTunes song only plays in an iPod? I don’t. Something has to change,” EU Consumer Protection Commissioner Kuneva was quoted as saying in a preview of an interview to be published on Monday. Why? Why does … Read more
One of (OK, the only) Tako Productions projects that I am still working on is Sacred Digital. This is an endeavor with a buddy of mine to create video podcasts that talk about the Christian faith. My buddy, Chuckk Gerwig, is a pretty awesome communicator. He’s a lot of fun to work with. We have … Read more
As most of you know, I have lived in the computer world for most of my adult life. Almost from the day I started using computers, I’ve been connected to some form of network. When I first started using computers in 1986, it was bulletin board services (BBS). In 1990 when I started at CSULB, … Read more
From the beginning I wanted smittie.com as my domain. Someone had registered it and was offering it for sale. Initially, the web page said that the minimum offer that would be considered was $500. Some months later it was $850. Today, it is $1230. However, they accepted a significantly lower offer from me. So, I … Read more
SANS jumps on the sensationalism bandwagon, claiming a ‘sharp increase’ in Mac OS X ‘flaws’. 52 ‘flaws’ were found in 2005. Bah. read more | digg story
I went to NAB for the first time. A rather whirlwind tour of both Las Vegas and NAB. I flew in on Wednesday morning at 9:00 am, spent the night at Circus Circus, checked out Thursday morning, spent the day at NAB and flew home at 7:00 on Thursday arriving in San Jose at 11:30. … Read more