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Google is creeping me out

September 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General

Remember back when gmail was new and they were talking about targeting ads to people based on the contents of their email, and some people were freaking out? Not me. I didn’t really care. I’m all for privacy and find most web ads distasteful, but this didn’t bother me too much. I’ll tell you what [...]

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mocoNewsnet: Android’s Scare With Malware Makes Apple’s Tough Love Policy On iPhone More Reasonable | mocoNews.net

February 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · General

This recent article in mocoNewsnet points to some of the problems and tensions surrounding mobile computing, which are also metaphors for other forms of governance in a networked world. The article basically rehashes some of the gripes developers have had with Apple’s approach to the iPhone App Store — basically, that they are too tight-fisted, [...]

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Good personal tech news

September 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · General

This is of probably interest only to my personal techy friends, so I apologize to the rest of you for clogging your RSS readers. Remember back when I was griping about my tech problems in June? Well, the PC issue has been solved it seems, and it wasn’t the motherboard. I replaced my mobo (an [...]

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Broken Tech

June 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General

A few months ago, my PC died. Bad motherboard. I haven’t had the money or time to fix it, plus I use my iBook for most everything these days anyway. Two weeks ago I dropped the Treo into a pint of Guinness, rendering it pretty much useless. I have finally borrowed an old flip phone, [...]

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