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2016 The year in Review
Wow, what a year 2016 has been! While politics and work have had their major ups and downs, I did get a ton of good reading in this year. I figured a great way to wrap up the year would be to go back thru the books and just think about them here. Enjoy. January […]
Monday morning
Recently the cartoon Dilbert posted the following. This strip has consistently done a good job of pointing out the challenges and realities of the modern corporate world. What I liked about this strip was the tension that we see between engineering and marketing. This same tension can be seen between development and sales, management and […]
Post Thanksgiving Thoughts
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 […]
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 […]