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  I’m a Twit

  08.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yes, it’s true. I’m now part of the problem. After all the bad things I’ve had to say about Twitter, I finally took the plunge and started using my account. You can follow me on mah1. We’ll see how much I use it…

• Business, Technology & Science

  The Sun Sets

  07.17.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Yesterday was the close to a very sad chapter in technology history with the shareholder vote of Sun Microsystems to be acquired by Oracle. From a shareholder perspective, this is perhaps the best outcome that was possible (the alternative being the Silicon Graphics descent into permanent penny-stock land shrinking each subsequent year.) For Sun customers, [...]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  Try Bing

  06.01.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m going to do something I haven’t done in a long, long time. Recommend a Microsoft product: Bing.com search engine. It’s actually good, the results are reasonable and I love the added information it brings to me when searching rather than having extra clicks to dig for it. Now, is it a Google killer? Hardly. [...]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  Maker Faire 2009

  05.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  For the third year in a row, my daughter and I attended the Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend. While we both managed to have a good time, the crowd is now overwhelming, or perhaps the venue is simply way too small. The crowd was so thick at times, I had difficulty getting the [...]

• Business, Innovation, Technology & Science

  Twitter-mania

  05.06.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I’ve already declared myself on this subject many moons ago, so don’t view this post as anything other than status quo. Even on the far side of the world, twitter-mania is running rampant. The fact that simple multi-cast of short text messages is causing this hurts my head.

  Who cares that Oprah is tweeting, I mean, [...]

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