Category Archives: Technology

Mashup Site

I spent yesterday and part of today working on a mash-up blog that would include the online content that friends make, as well as my own.    I need to see if there is any interest in making in public (AKA would anyone else visit it), or if it is a project I am going

Star Wars Galaxies – The Game With Four Deaths – An Introduction

Wow, Star Wars Galaxies will be put to rest on Dec. 15.   While a lot of people are upset (including me partly) – there are a few MMO’s that don’t last that long.   In the end it became the uncle that was a drunk.  You didn’t really want to be around him, and kind of

Apple Location Issue – Scaring the Uninformed

So the Apple issue hit the web news yesterday.  All the “OMG HAXXX” and Fox News proclaiming your spouse or employee can monitor your every move stories hit the web and to the non-technical people this seemed like the worst thing ever.   The first thing that came to my mind?  I thought “This is awesome

This is Why I Lifestream

This is the kind of stuff I think about creating with what I wrote about earlier. Playing life one piece of data at a time.

Lifestreaming After Three Years – New Goal Personal Databasing

I have been  saving my online data pretty much for three years.  Most of it is backed up in email via some fashion or another.   Some of it is stored in my blog.  All of it is important.  It is my history of that time span.  It’s my thoughts, my communications, my media consumption.  It

Building a Better Blogging Client

I love the WordPress interface.  I love posting from a web page instead of a rich client.   What I don’t love is deciding which blog I am going to write for, logging into that blog, writing posting – and then logging into a different blog.  This process alone slows me down enough that I’m put

My hope for iPhone 5? A better rear facing camera.

I love the camera on the iPhone 4, the front facing camera.   The rear facing one, not so much.   My son doesn’t like to pose for pictures, but if he is on your lap and he can see himself (using the rear facing camera) – he’ll sit and pose picture after picture.   Now Apple, can