Caught this news today - rumors of Apple ordering a large number of ten-inch touchscreens from the same provider of iPhone screens: Apple Orders Touch Screens for Q3 I hope its true.  I’ve realized that my iPhone has really become my preferred portable computing device.  I’ve gotten ve...

Caught this article yesterday on the new 2009 Lincoln pennies: 2009 Lincoln Penny Mania A quick review of recently completed eBay auctions shows unmarked rolls selling for $30 to $50 each. Single pennies have sold for $2 to $4 each. Rolls with a Lincoln postage stamp and cancellation from the first ...

It’s still fascinating to me how many insights I gain from the traffic to my own personal blog. Today, I checked my stats briefly and noticed something really strange: my post about eBay Express, A Eulogy for eBay Express, had jumped with a vengence to the number one post on the blog.  My ove...

I’m sharing this fix with the world, so that others need not live my pain. Last night, I returned from Lake Tahoe with 451 beautiful shots of our family snow trip, all taken with my Canon 40D SLR.  Each shot was captured in both large format JPG and RAW format. Unfortunately, after loading al...

This news is from tomorrow’s New York Times: Scientists in Germany Draft Neanderthal Genome It’s about 63% complete at this point.  We live in magical times, scientifically.  Unbelievable. Some nice tidbits from the article: The Neanderthal genome, when fully analyzed, is expected to s...

There was a great post yesterday on Guy Kawasaki’s blog on 10 ways to find a job using LinkedIn. It’s a very timely post because I find that, even among my fairly young and tech-savvy friends, people still have trouble imagining how to best leverage their professional network online to help them...

Great post today on Guy Kawasaki’s blog: Ten Ways to Find a Job Using LinkedIn It’s a very timely post because I find that, even among my fairly young and tech-savvy friends, people still have trouble imagining how to best leverage their professional network online to help them with thei...

This is actually news from last week, but Google announced that they are repricing their employee stock options. John Batelle has fairly representative coverage on his blog.  His post cites coverage from Adam Lashinsky at Fortune (a personal favorite as a journalist) with a fairly typical dig on th...

This is one of those quick posts that I write hoping to save others a lot of time. For the past two weeks, I’ve been trying to diagnose and fix problems I have been having with my external 1.5TB Seagate Freeagent Hard Drive.  I use the hard drive as my iTunes library, which I drive FrontRow u...

I haven’t posted here to date on the Bernie Madoff scandal.  No sense writing a huge amount on the topic at this point - it’s been well covered elsewhere.  Let’s just summarize my feelings as: We will never see an end to Ponzi schemes, because they work. This exposes some of the ...