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  Sensors at Devil’s Slide

  04.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sensors at Devil’s Slide

  Yesterday, my commute home took 100% more time than it took a mere few weeks ago. Was this an anomaly? I wish. Recently, Highway 1, 50% of the access from my home to the rest of the Bay Area was shutdown indefinitely due to storm damage. An interesting side effect of this is a remote […]

• Innovation, Travel

  Sensors, sensors everywhere

  04.03.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sensors, sensors everywhere

  As I sit in my hotel in Tel Aviv, I marvel at the fact I can see what’s happening in the Pacific Ocean because of the National Data Buoy Center system. The buoy in question, 46012, gives me water and air temperature, wave height, wave period, air pressure, air pressure trend, wind speed (direction and […]

• Business, Innovation

  OnStar, it’s pretty cool

  03.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on OnStar, it’s pretty cool

  In the beginning of February, I bought a new vehicle – a GMC Sierra pickup. You may ask yourself, “why would a tech guy buy a truck?” And that would be a fair question. The answer is I’ve been driving trucks my entire life, having grown up in the state of Ohio in and around […]

• Business, Innovation

  Pay phone takes on new meaning

  03.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Pay phone takes on new meaning

  Yesterday PayPal announced a new capability that will enable users to send payment to a recipient using a text message. Pretty darned cool. Guess they’ve built the new “pay phone.” Let’s hope it’s secure!

• Business, Innovation, Media

  Ugly is in the eye of the beholder: Microsoft redesigns the iPod

  03.21.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Ugly is in the eye of the beholder: Microsoft redesigns the iPod

  Recently I stumbled upon an article that was somewhat surprising to me. The premise is that while we spend oodles of time making websites pretty and elegant, there’s little return on that investment. To wit, the dating website Plenty of Fish is referenced as an “ugly” website. Now I’m not in the market for these […]

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