On the first day of government class as a freshman in college, my professor entered the room pushing a television on a small cart and carrying a stack of magazines. He introduced himself and said that if anyone had not yet purchased the textbook to save their money. For those that already bought it, take [...]
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Archive | January, 2009
Barnes and Noble.com Making Progress
January 25, 2009
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I know, I know, Amazon is where everyone goes to buy books, videos, even snow blowers. But for the pure book person, like me, Barnes and Noble is still the preferred destination. Clearly Amazon’s site has been ahead for years, but the in store experience is not available to Amazon customers. I don’t care what [...]
Read morePresident Obama in the White House
January 24, 2009
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It’s been a few days now since the inauguration and over two months since the world has known that Barack Obama would be working from possibly the most famous address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Each day since Wednesday I have come home and asked myself out loud, “What has he done today?” This will be a [...]
Read moreSlumdog Millionaire – Film Review
January 19, 2009
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Update: Slumdog Millionaire nominated for 10 Academy Awards! Go to official Oscar site here. I settled into my seat in the Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema in Highland Park, Illinois expecting to see an interesting film set in India. I knew it was the story of an indigent young man from Mumbai who has a reversal [...]
Read moreFive Years of WordPress Interfaces from John Koetsier
January 18, 2009
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Slide show tracking the evolution of the WordPress author interface. I love seeing transformations that have taken years and hundreds of thought hours boiled down to something so simple. Thanks John.
Read moreTweetie is now Twitter on my iPhone
January 17, 2009
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I’ve tried several Twitter iPhone applications, Twitterific, Twitfire, Twittelator and most recently Tweetie. Here’s my take. Twitteriffic has a richly designed screen with a nice collection of settings that mirror the iPhone interface. It’s pretty fast, but unless you upgrade you get ads. Twitfire is essentially a quick way to get your Tweet out there. [...]
Read moreAdrew Wyeth – Simple yet Complicated Modern American Painter is Dead at 91
January 16, 2009
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We have all seen dozens of images from the three generation of Wyeth painters. The Elder, N.C. Wyeth, helped shape my childhood memories with his realistic illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, Treasure Island and others. As I grew older Andrew took center stage for me and he pushed his father’s style a little further. [...]
Read moreWill Apple lose its Muse?
January 15, 2009
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I’ve purchased seven Macintosh computers, three iPods, one iPod shuffle and an iPhone so far in my life. Each time I bought a new computer the older one was passed along to my son. None of them ever stopped working. Each one as well as the operating system was an improvement on the one before. [...]
Read moreMovie Studios Try to Reinvent Themselves in 3D
January 13, 2009
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U.S. film studios enjoyed a lock on the moving picture experience for many years before television invited itself to the party. Movie moguls were afraid that television was replicating the movie house experience so they completely changed the format from a standard 4:3 aspect ratio screen to a much wider screen. This helped them differentiate [...]
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