With the Web, You Can Afford to Dream Big
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, the Ipod Expert, May or May Not Be Here
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 […]
The Space Snatchers Run Photos that are TOO BIG!
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 […]
What You Can’t Have Engraved on your Ipod
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 […]
You Can Get Your Teeth Fixed–If You’re Clever
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 […]
Memories of My First Computer
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 […]
Watching the Big TV with the Laptop on your Lap
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, […]
To Fight Craig’s List, Publish Something Unique
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 […]