Year: 2006
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Welcome Martin
Martin Green jumps in with a blog, Forward Looking Statements. I think Webshots, and the other community properties at CNET Networks, will benefit from the conversation. Subscribed.
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Movie: Raising Arizona
I’ve seen bits of Raising Arizona before, but last night I watched the whole movie. Funny, though a bit manic by the end. Telling that the Metacritic score is a 55 (mixed or average reviews), while the user score is 86. Can you say…cult hit? I suppose you can expect at least that much success…
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Book: The World Is Flat
I haven’t bumped up against the TimesSelect wall since I wrote about its introduction in September 2005. However, after reading The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman, I can understand some of the attraction of the columnists…at least Friedman himself. This exploration of globalization, sub-titled “A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,” tells a forceful…
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Book: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
After seeing the movie last year, I re-read Douglas Adams’ The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last weekend during a plane flight. My copy is a 1979 paperback, when it was Hitch Hiker’s (two words) instead of Hitchhiker. It’s a slim 159 pages…loomed larger in memory, honestly, although brevity is a benefit. After the…
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Installing MacBook RAM requires significant force
I installed a RAM upgrade this morning on the MacBook, moving from two 256K modules to two 512K modules. While Apple is getting kudos for the ease of HD removal (video from Macworld), the RAM upgrade requires notably more force than I imagined. The instructions are simple, and the only tool required is a small…
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MacBook in my hands
I started a new gig today, and a very pleasant part of the day was spent setting up a spanking new MacBook. (Yes, more on the new gig soon… not meaning to be cryptic, just trying to gather my thoughts semi-intelligently. And it’s late. And I want to watch the Champion’s League final from earlier…
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Book: The Terminal Experiment
I travelled this weekend, which meant I got to start and finish Robert Sawyer’s The Terminal Experiment. In a fun combination of two technology sectors, the story follows the impact of EEGs taken at a nanoscale level and software constructs of human brains/personalities. Call it a mashup, even…with an evil genius AI committing real-world murder…
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Movie: Mission: Impossible III
As a mental break, I enjoyed Mission Impossible III last week. The action keeps jumping, as does the location (Vatican City, Berlin, Shanghai, Virginia, etc.). The only suspension of disbelief which was hard to swallow? When the MI team, in the middle of Shanghai, has a hard time getting a cellphone signal. Maybe in one…
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Why Don’t Ad Agencies Advertise?
“Why Don’t Ad Agencies Advertise?” is a simple question I’ve never considered. And it’s a remarkable to consider, even if it’s a deliberate overstatement. The author of the article is Simon Sinek, CEO of Sinek Partners (terrible, Flash-heavy website), which clearly is in the marketing field, but I can’t immediately discern why it is or…
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Finding the perfect gift
Via 43 Folders, I read David Sedaris’s essay Memento Mori in the New Yorker. Essentially, a wide-ranging riff, which includes a few paragraphs on the challenge of finding the perfect gift. Sedaris on the challenge: Hugh thinks that lists are the easy way out, and says that if I really knew him I wouldn’t have…