Catching up
So we are doing our best to catch up from four days on the road, but we were off to an inauspicious start this morning. Emerging from the blood lab shortly after 8, we discovered a flat tire on our Ford Escape Hybrid. That was the bad news: an hour or so later, the good […]
Back from Milwaukee
The Milwaukee trip was just great. I knew things were going to go well when we walked down to the hotel bar night 1 only to discover Giants announcers Mike Krukow and Dave Fleming. Linda, decked out in Giants orange said hi, and Mike jumped up, asked us if we had tickets and engaged us […]
Projects to think about on the road
Linda and I are off (at 4:30 AM) to Milwaukee, of all places, tomorrow. Long story, but the Giants are playing the Brewers, I have an old college buddy there and a good friend from Chicago is coming up. I plan to use the travel time to think through a couple of very important projects.
One […]
Dual monitors
So, I’m sitting at my $600 Mac Mini feeling like I’m at the helm of a mighty $3000 workstation, thanks to the dual monitor set-up enabled by the DisplayLink USB monitor adapter. The additional screen real estate really is useful: I can leave Mail and, say, Address Book up on one screen, while pursuing the […]
April fool
Well, we haven’t seen any standouts yet, but here’s Google’s Wake Up Alert, with bed flipper and connection to your water main. Public Knowledge offers the APRIL Act, a new IP bill, that, while a joke, uses actual language from bills before Congress - the FBI can wiretap you if they suspect you’re ‘attempting to […]
« go back —