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Being the hopeless romantic I am, I wrote about one of the bigger loves of my life on Valentine’s day, expecting iOS 5 to be announced in March in a manner consistent with the previous iOSes.  Alas, Apple had far too many things on their plate (like another iPad and such) to introduce iOS 5…

When AT&T and T-Mobile announced their plans for AT&T to buy the beleaguered American wireless wing of Deutsche Telekom, the only cheers I heard were from the two companies themselves. I imagine the AT&T execs were all sitting around the conference room high fiving each other upon realizing that buying your competitors is much simpler…

DISCLAIMER: this is a customer service rant. I usually get annoyed at reading other people’s because I didn’t go through the stresses that they went through, so I thought I owed you, the reader, this warning up front. The reality of tech today is that hardware is failure prone. If your brand loyalty is dependent…

There has recently been a shitstorm between Gruber and a bunch of other bloggers about the fact that there now exists a pretty widespread piece of Mac malware that’s making its rounds on the Web (it’s called Mac Defender or something similar). Given past comments I’ve made about how OS X is never going to…

Spending a year and a half working at a large corporation and making friends with some MSFT people in LA has earned me some respect for the old Borg since my idealistic college years.  In light of making a Microsoft evangelist sad that I was unhappy that they’re buying Skype (which I’ll discuss in another…

It’s the time of year when gas prices are making headlines again. Now they are starting to reach new record highs in America, and these prices are even starting to come close to what Europeans have been paying for gas for years. Those who want to blame Obama for all of America’s problems will be…

I decided this needed a post because keeping my viewpoint condensed to tweet form resulted in me implicitly calling @digeratii a piece of shit.   It all started with this:   Apparently, Digeratii, though seemingly against murder, is upset that people are raining on his parade by reminding him that it’s overall in bad taste…

Growing up in my house as a tech enthusiast wasn’t easy. I was lucky when we had dial up Internet and I was the only person in the house who really cared much about tech. My dad was very much a jaded Luddite when it came to technology (due in part to seeing how pathetic…

Despite my consistently saying things like “I don’t judge,” I am remarkably judgmental.  In fact, I’m so judgmental that I’m often looking for new ways to streamline my judgment.  I’d like to share a nice litmus test I’ve discovered works really nicely. “Everything happens for a reason!” If ever I hear someone say that, I…