Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
What am I talking about? Well, add a “.com” to pandora, and what do you get? A music service for the 21st century! That is, if it were actually tailored to consumers of 21st century music instead of “content providers,” which is fast becoming a synonym for “money-grubbers.” What is it about providing “content” that [...]
Posted in Software Stinks on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Wanna hear a dirty secret? I’m not really passionate about technology. And by “not really,” I mean, not at all. I don’t judge technology on anything other than utility and ease of use. I don’t care how cool stuff looks, I just want it to work. I don’t care about the newest things on the [...]
Posted in Open Source Software on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Miro likes to update; not as much as iTunes or Windows, but still…when I saw that the 2.0 version was available, I was filled with trepidation. The previous versions seemed to only fix cosmetic problems, and didn’t concentrate on the real annoyances that keep Miro from being my software lover: Movies that come back after [...]
Posted in Technical Questions on Feb 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
When Apple recently announced they were going DRM-free on their iTunes purchases, the world cheered. After all, they were charging 99 cents per song, and those songs were not songs per se but were restricted Apple “song files.” Yeah, they were pretty to listen to, but you could only burn them to CD a certain [...]
Posted in Technical Questions on Feb 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
If you’ve had to deal with AT&T’s customer support recently, and by recently I mean in the years since the advent of DSL, you know a few things: 1) They’ve outsourced all of their tier one tech support to script-readers in other countries who (non-convincingly) all have names like “Ted” and “Darren.” 2) DSL is [...]
