Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

It looks like I5 is the seam… It kind of messes with my head just looking at this picture…

I applaud you, Radiohead, for doing such a forward-thinking experiment with your distribution for InRainbows. However, you’ve unfortunately made sure that any data you receive from this experiment will be useless. Why? Well, because your website and ordering process are HORRIBLE. I had so many problems getting your website to work that I almost gave [...]

High quality non-DRMed MP3s cheaper than iTunes! Amazon’s store has really been getting a lot of people excited (including me). While they aren’t DRMing, they have created some pretty crazy legal restrictions in their terms of use. Is this a problem? Not really. Unless they start trying to enforce them.
Amazon’s contract says you “may [...]

I was reading this great post from Scoble: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love? « Scobleizer which was spot-on, but for some reason it got me thinking about Apple instead of Microsoft.
I think Apple is in serious trouble.

The Amazon digital download store is much better than the iTunes store. Not the design or that dumb [...]

It looks like the Swedish Standards Committee was going to vote “no, with comments” on Microsoft’s OOXML proposal. Then, in the 3 days before the vote, 24 new companies paid the fees to join the committee. The result being that the standard was passed. Of those 24 companies, 18 of them were Microsoft Gold Certified [...]

Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life - Los Angeles Times

At http://www.secondlife.com — where the cost is $6 a month for premium citizenship — shopping, at least for real-world products, isn’t a main activity. Four years after Second Life debuted, some marketers are second-guessing the money and time they’ve put into it.

“There’s not a [...]

Apple: No BS iPhone Review - Gizmodo

I think I’ve been a fairly restrained geek for pretty much ignoring it on my blog before now. No, I don’t own one. No, I don’t plan on buying one… yet. Like the gizmodo writer, there are some fundamental things missing for me: MMS being something I use a [...]

So our tivo decided to stop recognizing our wireless network AGAIN, so I did the stuff I’ve done before to fix it up, unplug the wireless adapter, reboot the tivo, restart the network, change the wireless setting, then finally voila, it connected and then rebooted TWICE! I’m realizing that the plus side to computer as [...]

Is Google Going To Buy Apple? | dmiessler.com
With no good rumours to go on, no new hardware, no new iLife, the Apple rumour mill goes into overdrive.
I think this a fairly unlikely thing. Google needs a hardware and consumer appliance manufacturer like Apple needs to get into the catering business. The Google business model is [...]

John Battelles Searchblog: Just Asking…
Ive found myself more and more wary of doing things that Id like to do with Google applications simply out of some primal, lizard brain fear of giving too much control of my data to one source. Its not that I dont trust Google, its not that I dont like the [...]