Archive for August, 2008

Bandwidth caps are a BAD idea

Friday, August 29th, 2008

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 ...

If it’s not a single on iTunes or Amazon then it doesn’t exist

Friday, August 29th, 2008

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. ...

Internal leakage from Blogger

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

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 ...

Maybe some airlines just weren’t destined to make it

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

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 ...

I enjoyed watching the democratic convention tonight

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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 ...

Great new author

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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 ...

Eclipse tweaks

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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 ...

Evernote

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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 ...