Wordpress for Android

26 Feb
2010

Wordpress for the Droid, sweet!!! Bye-bye wpToGo.

Quote: Monopoly

17 Feb
2010

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

– Steven Wright

(thanks Chris)

10 Obsolete Technologies to Kill in 2010

28 Dec
2009

Mike Elgan posted an excellent article on Computer World listing 10 technologies that should just go away. I couldn’t agree more with this list.

  1. Fax Machines
  2. ‘Cigar lighter receptacle’ plugs in cars
  3. WWW
  4. Business cards
  5. Movie rental stores
  6. Home entertainment remotes
  7. Landline phones
  8. Music CDs
  9. Satellite radio
  10. Redundant registration

Qik from Droid

13 Nov
2009

Motorola Droid Review

9 Nov
2009

On day four with my Motorola Droid I am for the most part very satisfied. Any shortcomings that I have found with the phone have usually been solved by having a co-worker point me to an app or widget in the ever-growing Android Marketplace.

The only thing I have yet to to discover is a better way to integrate with my company’s Microsoft Exchange Server. I am pretty disappointed with the built-in support. It took more than a few tries to get my calendar to sych with the “Corporate Calendar” app. I am not able to accept meeting invitations. One of my biggest complaints is that I cannot move emails to a folder from my phone which means that if I read it on my phone I have to wait until I am at my desk to process it with my Outlook client. This is very in efficient for GTD or Inbox Zero practitioners.

I have yet to try one of the other Marketplace solutions for Exhange integration so if you have recommendations please drop me a comment.

How Google Made the Chrome Logo

17 Sep
2009

This picture by Federico Fieni shows how Google came up with the Chrome logo.
Chrome Logo

Don’t Make Stupid Remarks

14 May
2009

If you don’t know God, don’t make stupid remarks!!!!!!

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “GOD if you are real then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 min.” The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am GOD, I’m still waiting.”

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently.

The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, “What in the world is the matter with you? Why did you do that?”

The Marine calmly replied, “GOD was too busy today protecting America ’s soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So He sent me.”

The classroom erupted in cheers!

A Harley Man’s Wish

7 May
2009

A man riding his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, the Lord said, ‘Because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.’

The biker pulled over and said, ‘Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want.’

The Lord said, ‘Your request is materialistic; think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required to reach the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! It will nearly exhaust several natural resources. I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind.’

The biker thought about it for a long time.

Finally, he said, ‘Lord, I wish that I and all men could understand our wives; I want to know how she feels inside, what she’s thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing’s wrong, and how I can make her truly happy.’

The Lord replied, ‘You want two lanes or four on that bridge?’

Nebraska Corn Farmer

21 Apr
2009

A Nebraska corn farmer walks into a NYC bank and tells the loan officer he is going to Norway on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer tells him that they will need security for the loan, so the farmer hands over the keys to his new Ferrari. The car is parked in front of the bank. The corn farmer produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.

An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the bank’s underground garage and parks it there. The bank’s president enjoys a good laugh over this farmer using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan.

Two weeks later, the farmer returns, repays the $5,000 and interest, which comes to $15.41. The loan officer says, “Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?”

The farmer replies: “Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41, and expect it to be there when I return?”

Ah, ya gotta love those Nebraska corn farmers.

I Hope My Wife Doesn’t See This

25 Nov
2008

Your Country Needs You (To Shop)In these rough economic times, getting the money churning is the key to getting back on track. I have a feeling there are more then a few good men and women who would love to make shopping their patriotic duty.

Politicians and central bankers in the UK and across the world are battling to get you to spend more money on non-essential items so lack of demand does not send the global economy into freefall.

But even in the current hard times there are still dissenting voices who want to use this opportunity to tackle consumerism once and for all. They say our love of stuff we often don’t really need and can’t afford is what got us into this mess in the first place. Shopping became our god and must be toppled, they say.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are plenty of people who will stick up for shopping – as something to cheer us up when we are down, as a social activity, as an assertion of freedom and as the “vice” that could save us.

I think we all can agree that getting the money churning is a good thing but we as consumers need to make sure we don’t spend more than we have. I am hoping the days of “90-days same as cash” and “no interested until 2047″ are behind us and people start shopping smarter.

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