Monthly Archives: May 2011
Why Does Google Own Hello.Com?
I was thinking about automagic seamless data sharing in 2015 and got it into my head to see who owned hello.com. Yes, my mind makes leaps like that. Google does, if I read the record correctly. Relevant screensnap portion after … Continue reading
Filed under Google
RSS Update: Killing The Hamster Wheel!
Apparently my latest setting for checking feeds with the Firefox LiveClick add-on — thirty-five minutes — is still too short. Video viewing, or JPEG editing, or post creation, or just plain reading gets interrupted by the damn notifications too soon. … Continue reading
Filed under Blog Notes
iWork In 2011 Is Just So 2007 To Me
2011: Apple brings iWork to iPhone and iPod touch Click = big
Filed under Apple: The Company, iOS
Missing The Point Of Blake’s 7
Nigel Kneale “I think the low point for me would be the very few bits I’ve seen of a thing called Blake’s 7 which I found paralytically awful. The dialogue/characterisation seemed to consist of a kind of childish squabbling” That … Continue reading
Overthinking A Book Cover: Disaster!
If you’re a writer, you’re not expected to be a designer. Hell, you shouldn’t even try to be a designer. Pay the money for a real cover! Would you go out into the world if your face was horribly disfigured? … Continue reading
Filed under Book Creation
A Five Year Bet
Written off? [Bradley] Graham and his wife recently purchased Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., one of the nation’s premier independent bookstores. What was he thinking? “We’re not a dying breed,’’ Graham insists. “There are still enough of us who … Continue reading
Filed under Bookstores
The Final Nail In The Coffin Of PBS
Gary Null, years ago, correctly identified what PBS had become: “Non-commercial commercial television.” Now it will become full-blown commercial television! PBS Plans Promotional Breaks Within Programs PBS officials told member stations at its recent annual meeting in Orlando that beginning … Continue reading
Filed under Collapse, Pottersville, Stupid, TV
Pixel Qi Bombshell: Three Million Screens Shipped!
Charbax is a charmer. And he has a great relationship with Mary Lou Jepson of Pixel Qi. In the video after the break, he really gets her to talk — and we get an incredible look at the back of … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
