Someone once said that there’s no substitute for experience. I can get behind that. For example, I’ve been working with personal computers for about 30 years now, and was blessed with sentience a few years before the personal computer boom cranked up to full-swing.

Today, I wake up every morning and read yet another breathless column in Engadget ( ( Read more... )

I’ve had a run of some unfortunate luck over the past few months. I lost my job in September, and just before that, severely injured my knee.

Don’t feel much like writing anymore. Not for a while.

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A dear friend of mine read my entry yesterday and had the following to say about it on another network:

Uh, not quite. Windows is a toy car and its box is filled with ads for all kinds of accessories you can buy. Linux is an erector set that you can use to build just about anything you want to and your only limits are the set itself and your i ( Read more... )

Quite a number of months ago, I wrote a journal entry deriding Linux (no, Corsair, really? You? Deride Linux? Go on!); and several months before that, I’d written another one comparing Linux and Windows to hamburgers. I thought it was a really clever analogy, but for the life of me I cannot find that entry in The Corsair Journal-so, especially in ( Read more... )

Alright, I’ve been neglecting my poor, beleaguered journal for too long, and it’s time to get writing something other than technical documents to work the brain muscle some more. C’mon brain!

What better grist for my journalling mill than fresh rumors that the iPhone will finally break free of AT&T’s Cthulu-like exclusivity arrangement and arrive ( Read more... )

I switched back to the Storm. Android is simply not finished yet; it lacks some very, very basic features that I had gotten very used to on the BlackBerry.

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Anyone who has had to endure the displeasure of struggling through a customer support call with a completely unintelligible customer service representative in Bangalore should be watching this legislation with interest: A new bill before the House gives outsourcing American companies a hard time. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a bill ( Read more... )

So AT&T is getting rid of their unlimited pricing plans, eh?

WelYgl it’s only been a fucking year since tethering was announced for the iPhone; now AT&T is poised to implement it-along with draconian pricing models to ensure that tethering isni’t at all useful to those who choose to tether. Their top-tier, most expensive plan, caps out at 2gb-down ( Read more... )

Since I started taking Tri-Rail to work again, I have a big-ass commute-and I have the dubious distinction of having the longest commute in my office. If my office were playing Settelers of Cataan, I would so have the Longest Commute card-and the accompanying two points.


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I have a cadre of Linux developers in my shop, and I would routinely bust on them in retaliation for casting their noses decidedly skyward whenever anybody mentions that big evil company in Redmond. I used to call them all Tofu-eatin’, sandal-wearin’, pot-smokin’, mantra-chantin’, crystal-wavin’, Kumbaya-singin’, tambourine-bangin’, stickin’-it-to- ( Read more... )