I’m a Netflix customer. Since October 2000, I’ve enjoyed the no-hassle back-and-forth of DVDs waiting for me to find time to watch them. The alternative — finding time AND interest AND going to a store to rent a movie — seems almost as antiquated as the pre-ATM world. (There’s a world I wouldn’t want to…

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Never got out to see The Ladykillers, despite Tom Hanks, but the Wall Street Journal’s review of that movie endorsed the original, The Lavender Hill Mob. So, Netflix away. Eighty minutes of black-and-white British fun. Not a great movie, but I haven’t seen much of Alec Guinness long before his Obi-Wan role, so that was…

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Because We Are Geeks [via Simon] Disrupting the News Industry – webcast of UC Berkeley Journalism panel I missed, but I’m listening now Switching from Movable Type – WordPress is listed as a competitor, and Eric Meyer has switched Rich Internet Applications – some classifications to argue about GEL conference writeups – in Fast Company……

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I don’t make it to many baseball games these days, but got to watch the Yankees beat the A’s 4-3 at the Coliseum tonight. A-Rod’s homer on the first pitch of the ninth to tie the game at 3 was the clincher. Being at the ballpark is fun, but TV really spoils the attention span.…

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The word HeyDoYouKnow prefaces most everything that comes out of my son’s mouth right now. Most of the time, I do… so far. He occasionally comes out with something I don’t. It’s a bit too early for me to give up my role as the Wizard (“pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!),…

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Fever set in Friday night and hasn’t fully let go. Oof.

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Several weeks ago, my team started using a Wiki (collaboratively edited website… more. While it took longer than I expected to get going, the results have been more than I expected: it really is (slowly) changing the way we communicate with each other. This morning, I introduced the Wiki to a large group internally. I…

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I went to an alumni event for my high-school this evening, and Chris Gallagher was playing some of his new music. I haven’t seen or heard from Chris in 15 years (literally), but I remember him singing “California Dreaming” a cappella in morning chapel back in 1987. Seems he did several things along the way…

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If you were baby Trixie, do you think you’d be touched by your website, or embarrassed? Since Trixie is less than a year old, she has no say in the matter. I’ve been delinquent in keeping my kids’ websites updated, but I certainly have tried to make sure I embarrass my children even before we…

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There’s no price like free. Killjoys tell us that nothing is free, you just don’t know what you’re paying since it’s not cash (they’re right, but let’s skip over that inconvenient fact). But watching the buzz about music.download.com start to build, it’s obvious that the appeal of free isn’t dead. What’s on offer? Free music.…

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