Review

U2 – No Line on the Horizon – Review

Five years ago, I jumped the gun, and declared U2′s “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” a great album, and a potential classic. Looking back now, although it’s still an album full of some amazing pop songs, my susceptibility to hyperbole got the best of me. I let the emotions of unexpected success at the [...]

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Brazen Careerist

I don’t normally write general posts referring to other blogs, but for a while I’ve wanted to give a shout out to Penelope Trunk over at her Brazen Careerist blog. Anyone who’s familiar with her writing is likely aware of how strongly people react to her posts (mostly negative, it seems, especially at her former [...]

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A Short Lesson on How to Present Clearly – Presenting AJAX

Last night at the Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Group in Stamford, CT, Microsoft’s Peter Laudati brought uncommon clarity to his presentation of Microsoft’s AJAX framework. Peter is a top-notch presenter, and he proved why he’s a Developer Evangelist for the NY / NJ area. Although I’ve seen many solid presentations at user groups and [...]

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Key Launcher Experiment, So Far…

As you may have read, I’ve been testing several “key launcher” type of utilities for about two weeks so far. Although a key feature (sorry — no pun intended) of several of these utilities is an “autotext” feature, this is the least of my needs for this type of app (coincidentally, “app” was just expanded [...]

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Re-Automating

Programmers are a curious bunch. We’ll spend hours or days working on a solution for ourselves that’ll save us mere minutes. Part of it is just the challenge of stripping down tasks to their bare minimum, even if the total time we save from ever running that task adds up to just a small fraction [...]

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Bit Literacy – Naming Files, Revisited

I recently finished reading Mark Hurst’s new book, Bit Literacy, and I definitely recommend it. It’s a quick read, but it’s one of those books you should revisit time and again. Seth Godin of The Dip fame (also highly recommended) calls this “…The Elements of Style for the digital age,” and that may be true, [...]

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Samsung Q1 Ultra – Loving It

I know that the ultra mobile PC has not yet found its niche, but I have the Samsung Q1 Ultra, and so far I’m loving it. It’s far from perfect, I admit: the keypad leaves a lot to be desired, and I wish the keypad was backlit, and it’s no speed demon, but it’s extremely [...]

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Tegan & Sara – The Con

Those who really know me know that my second favorite band is Tegan & Sara (even people who don’t know me know my favorite band). So one release I’ve been looking forward to this year is their latest — The Con. So Jealous, released in 2004, is one of my all time favorites, and what [...]

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