November through January have been extremely busy months for me. I have had some sort of personal, professional, or family obligation just about every weekend and things on weeknights as well. Additionally, I’ve been juggling a lot more freelance work than I normally take on. My housekeeping has fallen behind, I haven’t played any of […]

I woke up this morning to the news that my favorite torrent site, OiNK has been shut down. OiNK was the best place around to get out of print music. I downloaded a lot of old Brazilian jazz I could never get on CD or vinyl unless I spent years scavenging garage sales. I downloaded […]

I’m so tired of pages taking forever to load, only to find “connecting to google-analytics” in my taskbar. Don’t be so damn cheap! Spend $30 and get Mint (or the self-hosted solution of your choice) so I don’t have to sit and wait for Google to process your stats. Stats are your problem, not your […]

I normally try to ignore the Apple rumor mill, but I really want a slim MacBook Pro.

Google now has their very own in-house lobbyists. I wonder how this will affect the company’s “do no harm” ethos in the future.

I’m sure everyone else is as tired of hearing about these things as I am, so I’ll try to keep this post succinct. Basically my RAZR was a piece of crap and dying. The phone I had before it, a Nokia 3300 tried to pass itself off as an mp3 player and PDA, and it […]

So I’ve been using Simplify Media for a month now, and it’s worked out great. First, the weird tag issue I was experiencing before actually has nothing to do with Simplify Media and instead has something to do with my iTunes configuration. Though I’ve yet to figure out how to rectify this. I do, however, […]

An article on giving children internet identities at birth. Doesn’t this put us one step closer to Minority Report? It got me to thinking that not very long from now, there will be young adults whose entire lives have been recorded into the history of permanent internet cache. (Like the baby whose Dad Twittered his […]