A couple of years ago in New York I saw an advert for Candela and immediate fell in love. A rechargeable completely sealed LED-based lamp that looked good and wouldn’t set my cats on fire. What more could I ask for? Well, an intuitive UI. Pick Candela up and the light turns on. Set Candela [...]
They Might Be Giants played a free show at Easy Street Records in Seattle the other day and I checked it out with my brother and Jon. It was for their new kids album Here Come The ABCs as well as a Here Come The ABCs DVD. They Might Be Giants also operate their own [...]
The Seattle Times did a comparison of the iPod Mini and the Zen Micro and managed to make the following statement in doing so: When the Zen Micro arrives, I open the box and pull out a bright, lime-green player that’s a little smaller than the iPod mini and fits perfectly in my hand. The [...]
According to Reuters, Xbox 2/360/Next is going to feature microtransactions for buying additions to a game whether it be a new level or virtual stuff for your character or who knows what else. My only reaction is do I really want to be nickel and dimed for a game I’ve already spent $50 for? I [...]
Very much by chance I found myself at the Capitol Hill Farmer’s Market in Seattle on 10th between Pike and Pine (just one block above Broadway.) I had seen signs for it on previous weekends but hadn’t actually seen the market itself. On one walk through I ended up with a few european pastries, some [...]
After sampling my Tivo, my parents got their own yesterday. They bought a referbished 40 hour Tivo which comes to only $50 after rebate. Impressively low cost of entry. It came with two window decals, the kind that cling to the glass. If anyone wants them, let me know and I’ll drop them in the [...]
If this story about Internet Explorer 7 not supporting CSS standards properly turns out to be true, it will be an incredible disappointment. We now develop for web standards and then waste a ton of time twisting it to look right in Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft does not gain the love of developers by wasting [...]
I’ve made a Hipster PDA template for Apple Pages for anyone who should find such a thing useful. This is for anyone who has certain cards they carry in their Hipster PDA that are permanently installed, for anyone wanting to carry pictures or charts and also for those who find satisfaction in having things to [...]
The Seattle Times is reporting that the King County Library System in Washington state is now offering audiobooks that can be downloaded and accessed from people’s home computers. This seems like a resonable advance in bringing libraries toward lending digital goods until I saw that books in the public domain are among the list of [...]
Ever since Tivo CEO Mike Ramsay announced a “TiVo branded PC experience” in their 4th quarter conference call, there’s been speculation from TV Harmony, Thomas Hawk, Om Malik and others that this may mean a Tivo software PVR package that would compete with the likes of Microsoft’s Media Center. But, what if it’s simply Tivo [...]
