I was having a discussion yesterday with a fellow who’s been in the technology business quite a bit longer than myself.  Though I wasn’t yet an accomplished “I.T. Guy” when he sold his first computer in 1983 (I was finishing the first grade), I do share a knowledge of the am...

It’s that time of year again: tax time.  As we all pay buku to our local CPAs to fill out forms we’re either too incompetent or too uninterested to fill out ourselves, we cringe at the idea of a federal tax audit and dread dealing with IRS agents on the phone: people who won’t giv...

It has become obvious in the last several years that Apple is, first and foremost, a device manufacturer, and their flirtation with software (OS X, iLife, Logic, etc.) is borne as an extension of their inventive nature. In other words, Apple doesn’t necessarily want to be a software company, b...

Seriously, there’s an irrational exuberance in the online apps space that beginning to sound like a droning din.  Slate, for example, is espousing qualities to net-based apps that probably aren’t as big a deal as they sound, going so far as to declare Outlook dead because Google Mail no...

The iPhone was released to retail during the summer of 2007.  That means, if the features conspicuously missing from the iPhone at the time were in fact missing due to bugs, then Apple has had well over a year and a half to resolve those bugs.   Yet, in January of 2009, our iPhones still can̵...

The Toronto Star is running an article questioning TracFone’s assertion that everybody should have a cell phone, and it’s a corporate responsibility to provide one. The Star gets it right when they lead into the article with an air of sarcasm.  Of course a cell phone is NOT a human righ...

1994: I installed a CD-ROM drive into my Amiga 4000 today. Sadly, it sticks out about an inch in front because the 4000 itself is too small for a CD-ROM drive.  My desk setup is goofy, too.  The phone jack is too far from my desk so I can’t really talk on the phone while at my computer. Side...

I just did a quick comparison of system configurations.  A genuine Apple Mac Pro configured similarly to the Psystar “Open Computer“–a Mac-compatible PC marketed with the option of installing OS X Leopard from the factory.  Granted, it’s impossible to do an identical config...

Is it a cliche to quote and abuse T.S. Eliot’s poetry? This is the way the VoIP world ends Not with a bang, but a whimper Pulver pretty-much said this two years ago: VoIP is dead.  It became the “draw commodity” I hoped it wouldn’t, due to its promise and unique ability to t...

(Or, ten folks whose blogs I should’ve post more comments on in 2008.) 10. Darla Mack.  If you’re a Nokia nut, there’s no better destination.  The self-proclaimed “mobile diva”, Darla tries just about everything with her Nokia phones. 9. Rich Tehrani. The brawn and br...