Remember Me

A couple of years ago, a young man named Joe Murphy died from a rare and nasty form of cancer. I didn’t know Joe. Rather, I knew him only from the podcasts he co-hosted and I was a fan. During his illness and after his death, fans of his work made a [...]

Essential iPhone Apps (‘Cause Everyone Else is Doing It)

It’s June. That means I’ve had my iPhone for about four months and it has already become extremely hard to live without. In fact, I have no intention of trying to live without it. Not only does it sit in my pocket for most of the day, it recharges right next to [...]

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha has been around for a few weeks now, having debuted to a squawking chorus of voices. The initial reports from Mashable and Lifehacker sounded intriguing and promising but the talk on podcasts like TWiT and the virtual water cooler that is Twitter was more confused than relevatory. The single most coherent [...]

Songbird

While it isn’t quite ready for prime time, Songbird is an excellent music player with the potential to be a one stop music application.
The biggest thing that differentiates Songbird from other library managers like iTunes is the built in browser. Based on the Mozilla engine, the browser works just like any other, only that [...]

Testin Y’all Testin

Nevermind this post. Seriously. This is just a quick test of the WordPress application for the iPhone. We’ll have to see what this looks like and take it from there.

The New York Times Crossword for iPhone / iPod Touch

There is something compelling, even obsessive about a good crossword puzzle. And the New York Times is one of the best crosswords around. So finding out that they had put together an app for the iPhone was fantastic news. However, the price tag, a hefty $10, left a me little cautious. [...]

Refinements

The last time I went book shopping I didn’t actually buy anything. Instead I took pictures of the things I wanted then went back home and got online: Wikipedia to Amazon to iTunes and back around comparison shopping and information gathering until I found the best deal and best format for the book [...]

Searching for Reasons

Several people seem to have followed the move to Tumblr as a single place in which to read all my collected postings and doings around the internet.  However, there have been some complaints as to the dual nature of the posts:  the actual posts and essays vs. the one line tweets and links.  So, I [...]

Time to Start Thinking Ahead Again

Here’s a list of places and/or organizations to whom I am considering giving money to in the next twelve months:

CBLDF – The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is one of those organizations near and dear to my overfed and often overwhelmed geek heart.  Their sole purpose is to defend comic book creators, publishers, sellers, buyers, [...]

Joe’s Goals

Well kids, it’s been a while since I told you all about the latest Web 2.0 / Social Internet sites I have been playing with, so here is a quicky post all about one of my current favorites:
Joe’s Goals, located at, funnily enough, www.joesgoals.com, is an online goal tracking system. It has a really [...]

Random Thought About Peat Bogs

The ancient, or at least historical bodies the scientists pull out of peat bogs – they’re all criminals aren’t they?  I mean, good, honest, well-liked people got buried or entombed or cremated, right?  So, the guys they pull out of the peat bogs with all the stab marks and ropes still around their necks, they [...]

Sword of Damocles Redux

Well, not to be outdone by the One Man, who has opened up a great cafepress store to make his artwork more available to all of you out there in the world, I created a new cafepress store today, celebrating my drawing of the Sword of Damocles.
For anyone who is not up on their Greek [...]

Dangerous New Toy

Have you seen this? Stalkerati.com is a new site that will run simultaneous searches on most of the prevalent social networks (MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc) as well as Google Blog Search and Google Image Search.
The only drawback is that most of the people I know either wouldn’t use these services, or are much too [...]

Bzzz Agenting

Another something from the world wide weirdness that I find interesting:  BzzAgent.com.
I came across it after doing some research on word-of-mouth marketing campaigns for an MBA studies course that I teach.  The site, essentially, is a marketing company focusing on using street teams to lead new product launches.
The company sends each Agent a product kit [...]

Self-Referential

Just an uber-quick post today:  I've added the Flickr and Delicious widgets to the right hand sidebar, if anybody feels like taking a look.  If you don't, that's cool too.  I added them more to try out the functionality than anything else, and I'm happy that WordPress is adding more and more widgets every day.  [...]