Snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an far-reaching public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista mistakes changed the evolvement process of Windows 7. Chief among these changes was the purposefulness to 'define...

energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...

The Prada Transformer is a huge four-sided open-air building whose floor can be any one of its radically different sides. Massive cranes rotate it into place, leaving the other three to compose its ever-changing ceiling. This isn't some neat concept, it's an actual construction, penned by Rem Koolha...

I'm a visual learner, so I occasionally create PowerPoint slides to provide another way of understanding and communicating the concepts I'm writing about.  I wanted make it easier to reference these slides, so here's a compilation of posts where graphic images have (hopefully) helped to augment...

First step in picking a proper motherboard is a chipset choice. But not with the Intel Core i7 as the only available chipset is Intel X58, like it or not. My next step is to pick a manufacturer I like. As for graphics card my choice goes to Gigabyte. Never had issues with their motherboards and they...

ThinkVisibility  is a refreshing change from the corporate SEO conferences like Search Engine Strategies and SMX.  Kudos to Dom Hodgson for putting this event on in Leeds to attract the active SEOs / digital marketers in the North of England. I went to Uni in Leeds, so it was nice to go back and ...

Starting this Saturday, March 7, SPS Habitat will be having a regular open house on site at 1800 Fairview Street in NE Olympia (between Miller and Ethridge Streets, very near the Olympia Little Theater on Miller). These open houses will take place between 9:30-11am on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of ea...

Want to know what it takes to be a beatblogger? Not sure where to start? Who is doing it already? Here is your simple introduction to the new revolutionary practice that is changing the world of digital journalism. A beatblogger isn’t just a blogger. Twitter isn’t merely “Facebook Status Updat...

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Last December, Erica and I had the pleasure of spending a few weeks in Barcelona, tacking a low-season vacation onto a lecture at the Centre De Cultura Contemporanea De Barcelona. It was one of the best trips of my life. The city itself is amazing, of course, and now one of my favorite places in the...