Nobody is Listening
Posted in family, technology on Aug 28th, 2007
I’m pretty handy when it comes to technology but I also understand that there’s no way to stay ahead of kids. My grandparents never figured out how to set the clock on their VCR. I’m sure when I’m a grandparent my grandkids will know how to do things that I’ll have no idea [...]
Posted in technology, web on Aug 27th, 2007
This is pretty dang cool. I’m not how often people would actually manually resize an image by dragging its corner but certainly the ability to dynamically resize an image for different devices would be very useful.
It will also be interesting to see if people react to how these photos are altered. There is [...]
To continue with my theme of shopping at Amazon here is a shot of some feedback ratings in their Used and New Merchants area.
Read the second rating. The user, dixit_sanjeev, gives glowing feedback and provides actual information (as opposed to bmckeer’s “Great product!” - which doesn’t really tell us much). But the merchant [...]
I was shopping over on Amazon the other day for a Cisco router. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Amazon and you can get all kinds of great things there for good prices. Amazon Prime rocks the house too. But sometimes they lack technical details on some of their higher tech [...]
I was poking around looking for a tool that could translate English words to Haitian Creole. Google has some translation services that I was checking out. One thing I noticed was the option to change the language used by the Google interface. No sign of Creole but you can Google around using [...]
Posted in random on Aug 21st, 2007
We’re having new office space built out and we’ll be moving at the end of the month (hopefully). I’m learning a lot about this process as we go through it. Here are some of the inspections/permits that we’ve had to get:
ceiling electrical
ceiling mechanical
ceiling final
wall electrical
wall mechanical
wall final
low voltage
sprinkler
hydro
fire alarm
plumbing
building final
I’m sure there more than that [...]
Posted in random on Aug 17th, 2007
The other day I was leaving the new office space that we’re having built out. Next door they are building an apartment building. They have tons of stuff going on over there, laying bring, installing railings, etc. A construction guy was walking along the side of the build and he had some trash in his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2007
Two of the heavyweights from the Web2.0-nerdosphere (which I’m a part of), Mike Arrington from TechCrunch and Jason Fried from 37signals, are going out it. It’s quite entertaining.
I might be missing parts but where I first picked up on it was when Jason argued with TechCrunch’s Nick Gonzalez’s post about Mundu and their plans to [...]
Posted in technology, tv on Aug 14th, 2007
No, I don’t know the future of TV - but I have some ideas. When Verizon came out to my house a couple of years ago to hook up my FiOS service I think I started to get a hint of the future. Fiber optics all the way to my house! I did cringe a [...]
I’m sure I’m not the only person who uses Google search even though there’s a 99% chance that you could guess the right URL. For example, this morning I was trying to find the PetSmart site. Sure, it’s almost certainly www.petsmart.com but it’s almost as easy to just punch petsmart into the Google [...]
