Archive for August, 2008

The view from the stage at Stump the Experts, at WWDC 2008

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Every year, one of the sessions I’m involved with at Apple’s World-wide Developer’s Conference is called Stump the Experts. Ostensibly, it’s a “game” show, where the developers are suppose to ask trivia questions about (mostly) the Macintosh, and we answer them, because we’re all experts and know pretty much everything. I’ve been on the panel […]

The things I think about, sometimes…

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

While driving down to Gilroy, taking some out of town visitors to the Gilroy Outlet malls because that’s where they wanted to go, and listening to the “3+ stars rated songs” on the iPod, I remembered a line from some Tolkien novel I read long, long ago. Since I’m terrible with quotes, and am probably […]

Another product that should exist, and now does!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

A couple of us were talking the other day at lunch over a predicament another friend found himself in, after an evening of drinking and heading home with a new girl he’d met at the bar.  The next morning was, well, somewhat uncomfortable. So, to address this, we thought of a product that should exist, […]

What I spend my evenings doing…

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

I’ve been a Lego addict for, well, forever. The need waxes and wanes — as a child I played with my Lego so much that the school had me meeting with a psychologist who was concerned that I didn’t have any friends. At least I assume that’s why I was seeing her. Anyway, I’ve bought […]