From the monthly archives:

October 2008

AOL’s largely Republican audience

10.30.2008

I visited the new AOL homepage today to see what the Facebook integration was like. It wasn’t horrible, although the big ugly animated medium rectangle ad about removing wrinkles sitting atop the Facebook integration *was* horrible. In any case, there was a straw poll one could participate in, so I checked it out. Here’s the [...]

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Twitter vs Facebook: Differing audiences and convergence

10.27.2008

Over the past two or three months, it seems that everyone I know from high school and college have discovered Facebook. I’m getting multiple friend requests per day. Actually, when I think about Facebook, it seems to work reverse-chronologically in terms of adoption. I first joined Facebook when they opened up to everyone and my [...]

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Pumpkin Carving

10.26.2008

Kristin and I carved our pumpkins Friday night. What do you think?

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Hubris

10.25.2008

What happens when you’ve been sitting on top of the world for so long and you start venturing into new markets?
Google executives acknowledged the issue but said that the security features of the phone would limit the extent of damage that could be done by an intruder, compared with today’s PCs and other cellphones.
From this [...]

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New OpenOffice.org

10.19.2008

I just installed the latest version of OpenOffice.org, version 3.0.0 Official Release, which on OS X no longer needs X11 to run, so it’s just like running any other native OS X office suite, except it’s free.
Anyway, I launched it and wrote a bit, thinking, “why do all word processors emulate paper?” and here’s what [...]

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