At this moment, we are unprecedentedly in control over the flow of information that reaches us, and at the same time more overwhelmed than ever by commercial, political and social messaging. This dissonance produces a positive economic effect as demand for information ubiquity fuels the market for filtration, aggregation and privacy services. Ostensibly, people are [...]
There are a lot of things to consider when making the decision to go with Drupal 7 or Drupal 6. I will provide some general advice, but many factors will be specific to your project. So my first piece of advice is to do a lot of research on what modules are available. This means [...]
I have spent the last five years not texting. My friends thought it was funny that although I was sophisticated enough to program computers, I was not sophisticated enough to send text messges. It’s true – I was really bad at T9, the “smart” auto-completion engine available on phones without keyboards. It took me at [...]
What kinds of tasks do you accomplish with your laptop or desktop?
This question of course depends drastically on your profession. If you are a programmer or a designer, you manipulate large graphic layouts, multiple text files, command lines, and tons of browser tabs. If you are a writer, you type for hours in a word [...]
At the Ann Arbor Briarwood mall Apple store, the iPhones were for the first time feeling lonely and bummed out. I could almost hear them saying “what’s the big deal, he’s just like me, but he won’t fit in your pocket!”