• Bert and Ernie tying the knot

    I was excited to hear that a petition was going around to Sesame Street’s creators suggesting that Bert and Ernie finally get married. Given the…

  • A case for cellular carriers becoming the dumb pipe

    Despite being on the approach of an effective duopoly with the AT&T-Mobile merger, cell carriers are living in fear right now of losing control over…

  • Will Facebook Messenger kill SMS? (spoiler: a little)

    The announcement of it caught me by surprise today, but Facebook released a new app called Messenger, a standalone iOS/Android app that handles just your…

  • Life without Flash

    I decided a couple months ago to just remove Flash from my computer outright. I’m not really outwardly in a pissing match against Adobe or…

  • How I will know when Republicans are serious about the deficit

    1. The defense budget will start coming under serious scrutiny. Our military is the absolute archetype of inefficient government bureaucracy and lack of accountability to…

  • So Steve Jobs calls me up

    So I’m having my Pop Tarts this morning, when all of the sudden, I get a call on my phone from Cupertino. Immediately I recognized…

  • Confession: I am a god (thanks to technology)

    So I’m walking down the alley way to go to the gym (seriously) and undecided that waiting for my Bluetooth headphones to get replaced by…

  • Yeah, I’ve got a few complaints about Lion

    Make no mistake. My advice to you is that you unequivocally should be upgrading to Lion if you haven’t already.  Almost all apps that were…

  • A dead simple tax code that will fix our deficit

    I’m tired of hearing people quibble over who’s getting unjustly taxed. Here’s a simple system for calculating one’s tax burden. This will cause the budget…

  • On misunderstandings of Apple and 1984

    People LOVE to notice new behavior in Apple hardware and software and liken it to an Orwellian future in which Apple is harshly dictating what…