Nobody is Listening
Posted in photo, technology, web on Sep 20th, 2008
Recently Google rolled out an update to it’s Picasa desktop photo management software and the corresponding Picasa Web Albums. When I heard about this I had mixed feelings for a few reasons. First of all, I’ve always liked Picasa but lately I’ve become more of a Mac user and it’s only available on [...]
I think I first noticed Momentile when a link came through Micah’s Twitter feed. So, like with most new sites I see, I put my email address in to try and get in on the beta. Recently my name bubbled to the top and I got an invite.
I’m still not positive what the [...]
The other day I complained about a couple of web-related things, like undated web content. It turns out that my complaint was spot on. According to this Washington Post article (and somewhat confirmed by this Google blog post) an undated news item triggered a sell off of United Airlines stock - [...]
Posted in web on Sep 6th, 2008
Each zip code (in the United States) is associated with an area. That area might include more than one town or city but to my knowledge it includes one and only one state. So, when I’m filling out a web form that asks for my zip code can’t the internets figure out which [...]
I think everyone probably agrees that including a cute or relevant photo or image with your boring blog post makes it less boring. There are tons and tons of images available from Flickr and many that even give people the right to use the images (sometimes with certain conditions). So it [...]
It’s becoming clear to me that the main reason I blog is to give myself a platform for complaining about things. So, here I go…
I won’t bother complaining about Twitter going down all the time. Maybe it doesn’t even go down that often anymore. Anyway, it never bothered me that much - I figure you [...]
For the past several weeks a dedicated team of folks at Viget have been working on updating the web site. We set a target launch date when we started and they managed to make the deadline! A lot of hard work was put in by a few key people and many others chipped [...]
Health insurance is a huge pain - in many ways. The entire health care industry is a bit screwed up. Don’t get me wrong, I have had the good fortune (depending on how you look at it) to deal with quite a few very competent doctors and nurses over the past several months so I’m [...]
The talk over the past couple of weeks has been about the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! Other than Flickr, does anyone still use Yahoo!? Okay, I’m sure plenty of people do - actually my wife and I use the Yahoo! address book because we’re still waiting for Google to come out with a [...]
This isn’t a post on how to buy a car online - maybe I’ll write that one later. I need a new car. I’m not a car guy and really don’t enjoy shopping for cars. My wife and I decided on the car we want, the options we want (thankfully this model has limited options [...]
