I love my iPod but now where it’s made: according to a recent report by the UK’s Daily Mail entitled “iPod City,” indentured servitude might not be a bad description of the working conditions inside the city-size Chinese factories that assemble the iPod nano and Shuffle, where the employees reportedly […]
Late start in the cafe today, but we’re going all out. Great weather for coffee drinkers, and people passing through the town. But now a break, for the patrone, as Steve said the other day. Next week the Patrone gets back to his regular stuff. I was thinking about something […]
Rick Newton, Rick Newton, where art thou? Rick is away. Rick is an expert in using an Ipod. Tonight I’ve advertised a class in the cafe called Music on your Ipod, and frankly, I wish I could get Rick over to teach it. But there is a lesson and a […]
Gilbert Cranberg is outraged. Outraged over the invasion of the HUGE graphics in newspapers. He writes about it in today’s Neiman Watchdog.“It’s not unusual nowadays for artwork to dwarf, by large margins, the stories they illustrate. The Sunday New York Times is a major case in point. The Aug. 6 […]
We visited our friends Tom and Cathie over the holidays, and Tom’s generous bosses at his ad agency gave him a new video Ipod with a sentimental engraving on the back. I found out that this service is available from Apple, but they also have rejected many requests. Here are […]
Today I am feeling happy–happy and clever. Last week faithful readers may recall that I had to get a root canal…and ouch! The worst part was paying the bill. But of course, modern dentistry doesn’t just end after this four-figure expense. There is first, the temporary, and then the final […]
Yardena Arar writes about a sentimental fav–like me, his first computer was a 1982 vintage Kaypro. When first released, the Kaypro II cost $1795 and, like the Osborne, came with all the productivity software (word processor, spreadsheet) most people would need. Encased in grey and blue metal, the Kaypro was […]
Paul Boutin writes in slate about how convergence, this vaunted soon to be here concept, has stalled out on the runway. It’s all about 2 feet and 10 feet, the respective space allotted to the PC and the TV. “I asked Harry McCracken, the gadget hound who edits PC World, […]
Anil Dash responded a few months back to a long editorial criticizing Craig’s list published by Tim Redmond in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. “And live up to the standard you’ve set, Tim. You say “And he puts nothing back into the community: He doesn’t, for example, hire reporters or […]
Niraj Warikoo, of the Detroit Free Press, writes about another rush to judgement against American Arabs. “It may seem unusual for someone to buy hundreds of cell phones at a time, but metro Detroiters of Middle Eastern descent say that practice is part of a long tradition of entrepreneurship in […]
Today’s a wonderfully cool August day, as Steph works her first morning shift. “I like working mornings,” she said brightly. “It’s nice being so busy.” The Recorder had a story about my favorite lunch spot in town: the BBA Deli and Market, on Thayer Street, South Deerfield. The BBA is […]
A long, long day is finally coming to an end. Relaxing at 9 Mountain Rd. after a day working at the cafe and doing all kinds of things. I got a call at about 4 from Kevin McCarthy, he does a travel radio show in St. Louis. We traveled together […]