Favorite Posts
Amazon Apple banking Blackberry BSA Calendar commish computer history copyright Creative Commons credit cards disabilities DVD Eagle Scouts ebooks Ecobee economics Election FrameMaker Franken Gene Smith Great Falls Hastings Hastings Bridge historic HP HVAC Intuit lgbt Linux Mac Maps marriage McLean old houses Palin Palm passwords PC photography President Obama Project Gutenberg Quicken Rand Recipe religion Scouting Scouts security model smart home smart phone Spock ears stamps taxes Thanksgiving thermostats trolley mystery Trump US Navy video Virginia W&OD websites WordPress zombies
Rick
-
The Blackberry Calendar is Broken by Design
Read more: The Blackberry Calendar is Broken by DesignI’ve been taking my first trip with my Blackberry Storm 2. I’ve battled through the challenges of synchronization. I’ve got my couple of indispensible apps. So I’m all set, right? Wrong. It seems incredible,…
-
From Treo to Storm II
Read more: From Treo to Storm IILast fall, Alex warned me that Apple was dropping their support for the Palm Treo. I couldn’t upgrade to Spotted Lynx, or whatever the latest OS-X is called, until I switched phones. While I…
-
Reading ebooks on the Storm II
Read more: Reading ebooks on the Storm III read a lot of ebooks on my smart phone, and they all come from Project Gutenberg. In other words, they’re all free. When I recently migrated from my venerable Palm Treo 700 to…
-
Too Many E-Mail Addresses
Read more: Too Many E-Mail AddressesMarcus Ranum has suggested that it might be a good idea (if difficult) to make separate identities expensive. While acknowledging the importance of allowing anonymity, he argues that increasing the incremental cost could dramatically…
-
Home Videos
Read more: Home VideosCousin Jon sent me a link to David Pogue’s recent column on “Why We Make Home Videos.” Pogue starts by complaining about how consumer video has gone through several recent media transitions, making it…
-
Uncoordinated Companies
Read more: Uncoordinated CompaniesI’d prefer to work with only one company when doing a particular type of thing. It seems somewhat convenient that Turbotax and Quicken both belong to Intuit, and I do payroll through Intuit as…
-
Fighting the Good Fight
Read more: Fighting the Good FightJoan Walsh of Salon made an apt observation today, when commenting on Rush Limbaugh, who is currently hospitalized. She thinks it’s impolitic to hit Rush on this, even though he’s never shied away from…