It began innocently, my iMac seemed to be slowing down some. Lots of beachballs. As an old Windows user my instinct was to reboot. Uh-oh. Now it wouldn’t boot at all. Having learned the trick of terminal mode and fsck -fy from episode 81 of Macbreak Weekly. fsck just informed that I had invalid nodes. Penicillin-joke. But! [...]
Microsoft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo. Which isn’t that surprising at all if you’ve been following this industry for more than a couple of months.
However, it wouldn’t be the internet if a ton of nerds didn’t get in a tizzy over it. Tons of horrible, horrible photoshops protesting, using memes that haven’t [...]
I’ve always hated the idea of focus groups and this video just cements my belief. The worst thing is the fact that they don’t seem to get the drones aren’t supposed to represent Apple (why put the Apple logo on them?!) and the fact that’s an animated storyboard, not the finished commercial. This is one of those [...]
My G-g-g-generation
Being, as I am, from the digital generation I have found that our methods of communication (not to mention my usage of them) is quite different than that of the previous generations. Of course, this is pretty obvious. Since I’m not some kind of researcher I’d like to mostly talk about how I communicate, [...]
A recent tweet from Faruk Ates drew my attention. A workshop on upcoming.org for Human Resource people about blogging and the damages it does to business. Let’s preface this all by talking about blogging. Whenever I post something on the internet, I do keep in mind what a family member or possible employer might think of [...]
Kane & Lynch is a sponsor for GameSpot. Jeff Gerstmann gave Kane & Lynch a “bad” review, with an ultimate score of 6.0. Jeff was fired. You connect the dots. The fact that Jeff was still happily blogging about Rock Band a week ago, this is a sudden thing. I don’t really need to explain why this is [...]