Category: miscellaneous

Heading home today from Seattle and I have to say I was completely disappointed in my Verizon EVDO service.  In many places (the airport, the Microsoft campus, my hotel in downtown Bellvue) I caould get no signal at all and in the few places I could, I could never connect because I kept getting a…

Joe Wilcox has a great post on something I have written on a few times.  For an ISV, Microsoft can be like a Siren: they sing a great tune, but sometimes they send you crashing into the rocks.  While they haven’t made direct moves into our space (yet?) they have made it harder to do…

With the announcement of APEX last week, Salesforce.com has thrown down the guantlet in the ring of Enterprise IT platform providers.  They are trying to join the world of IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.  In many senses, their approach to the enterprise market is very similar to the approach that Google has to the consumer market…

GillmorGang was one of the first pocasts I subscribed to (right after The Daily Source Code…I guess that was all ‘back in the day’). I stayed a subscriber, even when there was a long hiatus. It remains one of the shows I listen to first. The discussion is usually very compelling, even when its moronic.…

I have been experimenting with Youtube in the past few weeks for screencasts and hosting clips I want to blog about.  After the acquisition by Google last week, I have seen some serious performance degradation.  I am wondering if the news of the acquisition has caused a wave of new users that is punishing their…

I wrote a few weeks ago about the newest WP plugin I was trying out, Podpress.  I’ve had a few more weeks to play around with it, and there is more and more to like.  It really makes the media experience, bith creation and consumption, simpler and richer at the same time.  The one ‘issue’…

They always do great mobile versions of their products.  The mobile version of gmail is great (used it exclusively when I was in Europe last week) and it the mobile version of reader looks to be no different.  I am still leaning towards Newsgator as my primary reader, but the lack of a viable mobile…

I am a big fan of a few things that Google does: search (duh), mail (semi-duh) and even something from the labs, Google Analytics (which I use on this site).  I’ve dabbled a few times with the newly named docs and spreadsheets stuff but I think those are products that require a collaboration scenario (i.e. more…

We had a party at our place last night. Had about 9 adults and 11 kids over for some fall fun. We had a hay ride, a bind fire and a ‘drive in’ movie on our back porch (I borrowed a projector from work and setup a simple screen with a bed sheet). It was…