The Zeitgeist

There was a “one more thing” that Steve Jobs didn’t announce today, which he should have: a iTunes Music Server (notice I didn’t say an AppleTV server… they already made one of them . I am one of those crazy people who, like most media lovers, has ungodly amounts of Music, [...]

Like just about everyone I was hitting the refresh button on my browser as today’s Apple Special Event unfolded. The refresh of the iPod line was a “given,” but i didn’t actually expect them to intro a WiFi-based iPod based on OSX today (even though it’s been rumoured for weeks).
I think this is [...]

This FaceBook Suit is utterly hilarious. In a nutshell, for those haven’t heard about it, or refuse to click on NYT links, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of FaceBook is being sued by former Harvard classmates who claim that he “stole the idea” from them. A fourth classmate (Aaron Greenspan ) purports to have [...]

Ross Mayfield blogs today about privacy and the whole problem of meta-data in Social Networks. He’s got a good point about what amounts to the law of unintended consequences when we freely give out our personal details to these so-called networks. Beyond the obvious opt-in (or lack of in many cases) spamming [...]

Wow.. that went fast.  Just a few short seconds ago my oldest finished 1st grade and was starting summer camp:  It was the end of June.  Now it’s back to school for 2nd grade for her; new job for my wife with her brand shiny new LMSW (she assures me I can still ask her [...]

We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP’s Archivist Anna Mancini, a private tour during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]

Oy-vey. At about 3AM we discovered one of our cats, a ~16 yr old cailco, named ConnieCat had died…
At 8:30AM this morning we had to break the news to our 7 yr old daughter. Much wailing and keening ensued. ..and continues.
Not. going. to. be. a. fun. day.
The [...]

I was going though my pictures from our vacation in the SF Bay Area last, and ran across this gem that I took at Children’s FairyLand at Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA. It’s a very funky 1950s storybook park for little kids (my oldest thought it was “cute” but it’s really for [...]