XBox 360: The WOW Is Coming!

I’ve just been watching the trailer for the new XBox 360 Dashboard and it’s looking good, it’s looking very very good. This is one of the first time’s I’ve seen Microsoft really get the concept of style nailed. The new dashboard seems to use a coverflow style to show different TV shows, films and […]

Inching toward federation

I have a problem that a lot more people are having.
I use three “micro-blogging” platforms.
1. Twitter
2. FriendFeed
3. Identi.ca
Each has strengths. FriendFeed can thread a discussion under each mini-post. It works better for me than the discussions on Twitter. Twitter is still where most of the people are, but — well you know the rest. It’s […]

Comcast shut me down again

Oy. This is probably the end of the line for me and Comcast. About an hour before today’s Obama speech, I was upstairs, with Slingplayer on the 2nd monitor, Audio HIjack Pro ready to record, when the net went down. I figured it was another outage, we had one here in Berkeley last week.
So I […]

A word about Comcast

Technology is fragile. Systems go down all the time because someone forgot to maintain something, or someone deleted a file or a variable that they thought no one was using. In other words with Murphy’s Law there are plenty of opportunities to put all the pieces together again after all hell breaks loose. Just ask […]