Voices in the Night – R U Listening?
July 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Postcard that Started it All
June 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Before and After
May 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Weak – Laptop Hunter Picks PC for Video Editing
May 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
Come on, Microsoft. Clearly you’ve forgotten one of the first tenets of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, To not attack the enemy where they’re strongest, but where they are weakest. You had a good foothold emphasizing that a Windows PC tends to be cheaper, has more applications, and more video games… but NOT video [...]
Broke Bookends
March 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Remember how impressed I was last time when I was using online research tools? Yeah, in the meantime I’ve run headlong into a less than amazing experience. I went so far as to pay for the upgrade of my copy of Bookends, only to get weird error messages when it can’t read PDFs and doesn’t [...]
Zotero & RefWorks: Damn Web-Based Apps that Work
March 3, 2009 By 2 Comments
I’ve been going at it all day, one tutorial after another, pausing to answer student queries online and then moving on to the next item in the EBSCO/ERIC search. I’ve been experimenting with Zotero and RefWorks and my mind has been continually amazed that I can so easily import library citations (with full articles) so [...]
Reading Redesigned Continues: Kindle2 & Big Rocks from the Sky
February 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Amazon’s Kindle 2 has begun arriving in happy gadget freak’s homes this week. Announced on February 9th by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle 2 is reported to have cleaned up some of the style-points that version one suffered from with a thinner, lighter device and boosted internal memory from 512 MB to 2 GB. [...]
Conditional Unconditional Love
February 14, 2009 By 3 Comments
The ideal of love is it’s unconditional nature. The closest we usually come to that kind of love is the love between a parent and her child. But even that love has it’s limits, it’s conditions. I know that I’ve come up against my own limitations with a love that I thought was permanent and [...]
The Lie of the 4th Screen
December 25, 2008 By 4 Comments
The following video was brought to my attention by a coworker as we both love watching stuff being presented at the TED conference. Alas, this video continues what I believe is a false cultural perception about the increasing general dehumanizing nature of technology. Admittedly it needs to be a bit bias, it’s a Nokia ad. [...]
My Year with the OLPC – NR4PT
December 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Around this time last year I was very excited to receive my OLPC (One Laptop per Child), called the XO-1. Having drunk the Negroponte gatorade I was endlessly frustrated with Dvorak and other tech journalists who kept their criticism of the XO-1 focused on either Negroponte’s eccentricities or the fact that the creators made it [...]
