Comcast has been moving in this direction for awhile now, but they’re actually announcing that they are going to be putting into place bandwidth caps. As everything moves towards centralized, cloud, distributed, download on demand, whatever you want to call it, a move to cap people is the absolute wrong thing to do. When people [...]
Archive for August, 2008
If it’s not a single on iTunes or Amazon then it doesn’t exist
There’s an article on Techdirt discussing the motivation of some musicians for not putting their albums up on iTunes. My personal experience is that if it’s not on Amazon or iTunes then it simply doesn’t exist. My family’s entire music infrastructure has been based on the ipod and apple tv. If I can’t purchase singles [...]
Internal leakage from Blogger
I was just checking out the news on ReadPath where I have a subscription to the “Blogs of Note” subscription that is a part of Blogger, and I came across a rather weird post. Usually posts from this subscription are just a simple Blog title with a link to the blog, no other content. Well, [...]
Maybe some airlines just weren’t destined to make it
At what point do you sit back and say that the cost cutting in the airline business is affecting safety? I realize that the odds that any flight will actually need the life preservers is miniscule, but that’s the point of safety equipment. If you never need it, it’s done its job. It seems that [...]
I enjoyed watching the democratic convention tonight
It was nice to see Bill Clinton speak, there’s just something about that guy. It was pretty funny when the crowd looked like it could keep cheering for hours when he got up on stage. I also enjoyed seeing Joe Biden speak. There were some bits that were repeated out of his speech with Barack [...]
Great new author
Stumbled across a new author, John Scalzi, when perusing recommendations on my Kindle. I made the mistake of reading his second book first, but it didn’t ruin anything to read it that way. Since I started reading his books I haven’t been able to stop. I’ve raced through 5 books and am just about to [...]
Eclipse tweaks
I’ve been doing a LOT of web development work lately. It’s strange how you can end up working harder for yourself when you’re self employed than you ever worked for anyone else. With all of the banging away at the keyboard I managed to pick up a bit of a repetitive stress injury in my [...]
Evernote
I just signed up for an Evernote account. Downloaded the mac application poked around a bit. In principle it’s something that I would definitely like to use. I’m looking for a way to save quick notes from when I’m working or out and about. Evernote seems like the closest thing to what I’m looking for, [...]