The Apple Tastes Sour Today!

I’ve been quite complimentary to Apple over the last few days and I was fully ready to accept that perhaps they had their game together. Today however has been an absolute nightmare for me in terms of Apple software. I signed up to Mobile Me when I got my first opportunity and got it setup […]

Good afternoon from California

I’m back in California, feeling pretty good.
Listening to the original version of For Free by Joni Mitchell from Ladies of the Canyon. There’s a later version from the live album — Miles of Aisles, but I like the original better.
The one man band by the quick lunch stand. He was playing real good for free. […]

Another tale of woe of Apple

These monolithic, upgrade the world in a day rollouts of Apple may not be such a great idea. And this is a reminder to myself never to be tempted by them.
Lured into the iPhone 2.0 rollout timed to happen the same day as the iPhone 3G rollout and a day after the rollout of the […]

Why I don’t like ‘crowd sourcing’

On Twitter, Jay Rosen asks why I don’t like the term crowdsourcing. (He says hate, but that’s way way too harsh.) Anyway, he’s right — I don’t like it — because it betrays a not-useful point of view. I am not part of a crowd, I am an individual, I’m a one man band by […]