I love Roger Ebert. I always have. As a very small child, I remember watching -- and loving -- Siskel & Ebert's At the Movies. It was always one of those weekend traditions -- track down the syndicated "At the Movies" broadcast and find out about upcoming films. Even after my family got Internet access in 1996 or so, I still loved watching Siskel ( Read more... )

As I said in my last entry, I feel bad about how little I update my site. Hell, I sorely need to update the About section and my link list. It's horribly out of date.

That's why I'm joining Project 52. I WANT to write more here and more personal writing, 'Im just so busy with work and because my work IS writing, it's hard to find the energy to ( Read more... )

Man - it's been forever since I updated my blog! I've wanted to write more frequently, but here's the situation: I write on average between 8 and 10 blog posts a day between my full-time job at Mashable and my side-gig with AMC Theatres (check out the Script to Screen blog here), that's a lot of words per week. By the end of the day, I'm usually ( Read more... )

It turns out that signing a two-year contract to save $50 WAS stupid. Despite my misgivings over AT&T, my early BlackBerry allegiance and my overall satisfaction with T-Mobile, I caved. Fuck the carrier. I NEEDED an iPhone.

I've written so much about the iPhone and its platform over the last two years that it is pretty laughable that I haven't had ( Read more... )

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Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard is available for pre-order!! Yeah, I'm fucking trolling for affiliate clicks. I admit it. Regardless, if Gruber, Dan Benjamin and other people that are more famous than me but that I like to pretend I'm sort of similar to can link to it, I figure I can too.

The single user Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard upgrade is ( Read more... )

I posted about this in my Tumblr, but I needed to do a full, proper post. John Gruber linked to a story in the Orange County Register that while absolutely heartbreaking, also reaffirmed the decency of regular people and the power of film.

Essentially, a little girl, dying of a rare form of cancer, really wanted to see Pixar's "Up." Sadly, she was ( Read more... )

If you follow me on Twitter, you're probably aware that I recently started doing a new podcast with Chris Ullrich and Matt Raub called The Flickcast. It's about movies, TV, comics and all things geek. We've been having a blast (subscribe in iTunes here) and Matt and Chris are awesome, awesome guys. Matt does the editing, Chris was the brain-child ( Read more... )

So Marco wrote this post kvetching MacHeist (yeah, that’s my bundle ID link) and how horrible it is for software developers. You know, for developers, some of his arguments might be true. In fact, depending on the circumstances, I can see how it might not be in a developer’s best interest to participate. But I take exception at this:

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