This morning I made it to the Gym and got a nice mile long swim in. All the lanes of the pool were full, which is not the usual case when I get my swim in, so I am thankful that not everyone gorged themselves yesterday to the point of not being able to do […]
Author: Michael Rowe
10 years of Podcasting
While recording my podcast this week over at Games At Work dot Biz I realized that I have been doing podcasts for over 10 years now. It all started with my current Co-host Michael Martine and I putting together an audio recording to promote a project we had for work. We called it Project Wookie, […]
iPhone 7 Plus Portrait Mode
It didn’t take Apple long to release a new beta that supports Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. As someone who likes taking depth of field pictures with a DSLR, I couldn’t resist. The feature does show amazing promise: The above grid shows two sample shots, one in bright sunlight and the other in […]
Apple Watch Series 2 and Swimming
I was waiting for this morning before I posted my review of the new Swim features of the Apple watch Series 2. I’ve been a bit under the weather the last few days, so there was a chance I would not go for my Sunday morning swim… but I felt up to it this morning. […]
Apple’s Wednesday Announcement – Three “One More Things”
One of the things I look forward to each summer is upgrading my iOS devices to each of the developer beta drops. It is always an exciting time, usually with lots of bugs and problems. For some reason this summer was different. The upgrades were simple, they didn’t cause a lofty of problems, and not […]
Tivo and DRM
I’ve been loving my TIVO, we can watch / record upto 6 shows at one time. Very cool… However, recent changes in the system have really made me frustrated.. and I am betting it is TIVO cowtowing to the media industry. I used to be able to sit in my computer room and do some […]
Engineers and Developers save the day!
OK, a quick update on yesterday’s blog post, on how individual people work hard at fixing the problems of corporate policy. Yesterday the service tech came by anyway, left his business card, found and fixed the problem for the hum..asked that I double check this morning, and if it was still a problem he’d come […]
The death of Customer Service
In the last month, I’ve had the “opportunity” to have to use customer service from a couple of companies. Both companies have websites and call centers, with the goal of improving customer service. To say that they actually provide customer service is another thing. The first is a major appliance manufacturer. About 14 months ago […]
Brexit and social media
I don’t tend to post a bunch here, and I’ve been crazy busy lately, so I feel a bit guilty that I’ve not had much time to blog. So what’s up? I have been completely dumbfounded by Brexit, and the demographic split that has shown up in the UK during this debate. A while back […]
WWDC 2016 – All Software – All the Time
Yesterday’s WWDC keynote was all about software. Hardware wasn’t talked about, except in the context that certain hardware ran certain operating systems. I tend to take lots of notes during the keynote, and then read a bunch of blogs to fill in the blanks. I also downloaded the keynote and will look at it again. […]