I would be lying if this Flash grudge match didn’t bother me. With the release of the iPad without Flash, Adobe got a little bitchy and vented against Apple publicly. I admit in being initially disappointed. I was fine not having Flash on my iPhone. In fact, I never missed it. I knew Adobe has…
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Their is no question that the right thing to do is eat grass fed beef. Grain fed cattle are given a diet of mostly just corn (because corn is inexpensive). Cattle were never meant to live on corn and unable to digest it properly. They are given a stream of antibiotics to combat it and…
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When I attended the Tweetup at PacBell park on Friday, April 30 it was the first I heard of Square. Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, was describing their new venture which allows businesses and individuals, to send and receive money through their phone. Download the app on your phone and they send you a free…
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Perseus got angry, really angry. In fine modern Hollywood fashion, the retelling of 1981’s Clash of the Titans for today’s attention-deprived audience seeks to amplify Perseus’s already impossible predicament to the umpteenth level. The years have not been kind to Perseus’s plight, because vengeful and unpleasant fits today’s action hero. In the new film, anything resembling…
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Over a decade ago, I felt it was time to change the way we interface with computers. The GUI (graphical user interface) on pcs had not fundementally changed since the mid-eighties. Although revolutionary at the time, I never felt a mouse was necessarily the best way to interface. You hold what amounts to a bar…
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I have been to countless live concerts. These are the top 5 that come to mind as most memorable, before any reflection changes my answers. Beck and The Flaming Lips, Oakland Paramount (November 27, 2002) -Â For a short while, Beck and the Flaming Lips, teamed up for a somewhat unusual tour. The Flaming Lips…
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It seems this decade has been a renaissance of me seeing great bands of the 80s and 90s in small venues like the Mystic in Petaluma. When I saw them listed I immediately snatched up some tickets. I had great memories listening to Too High to Die in the early nineties. Unfortunately I had not…
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