I’ve been advocating against buying extended warranty plans for years. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to do the math: Most people end up putting their extended warranty into play only rarely. In fact, of the literally hundreds of gadgets and gizmos I’ve purchased, I can recall actually having a malfunctioning gizmo repaired [...]
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This struck me as offensive at the time, about a decade ago… now, it’s hard not to laugh about it: I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders. (Fortune) Made all the more poignant by this week’s market cap figures: Apple, $146 billion. Dell, $63 billion. (Just for comparison’s sake, Intel [...]
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The Bradenton Herald recently ran this really lousy piece supposedly filling us in on the differences between the Mac and the PC. Normally I don’t bother to respond to such poorly researched articles, but this one is so laden with misinformation I just couldn’t help myself.
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This GOOD porn video is just too… ah, good, not to link to. Originally created as a look at the porn industry on the web, it’s a very light take on a pretty serious issue… and while the presentation is cute it’s also hypocritical, at least to my eye. The video sheds a nearly negative [...]
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I’ve watched the reports of Pages 3 and a rumored Numbers spreadsheet application from Think Secret. Alas, their track record is near zero in terms of accuracy (though some of their leaks do, eventually, come to fruition in some tangential form). I can only hope that the touted January release date might actually come to [...]
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I probably shouldn’t be trying to work, write or do anything except sleep at 2:51 in the morning.
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We need to give up some of our freedoms in order to keep democracy alive and preserve our safety. Much to my dismay, some people actually believe this (as evidenced by a conversation I had recently, from whence I borrowed this quote). It doesn’t seem to matter that “giving up our freedom” is essentially at [...]
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Recently, this quote caught my attention. Attributed to the Editor of Vanity Fair magazine (Graydon Carter) on Ring Of Fire: “You know how President Bush sounds like whenever he explains something that he understands, whenever he feels he has to give an explanation? He always sounds like he’s talking to idiots. I think the reason [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
