So,
I got one of the Internet-legendary $99 TouchPads (well,
$149 actually, but whatever). As some of you may know, I was an
enormous Palm fanboy during the 90's. So it was pretty inevitable that I
would end up purchasing one of their WebOS products, even though there's
not a lot in common between this and Jeff Hawkins' wooden cutout Palm Pilot.
Anyhow, this is probably going to be the nerdiest review of
the TouchPad posted on the Internet. It mostly is concerned with
keyboard mappings. Enjoy!
If you've read any kind of tech news in the last few
days, you might've noticed that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is out. I wasn't
going to upgrade for a while, but then it launched and I did. So I've
been using Lion for a few days now, and I thought I'd join the endless
ranks of people on the Internet talking about Apple's latest big cat.
I'm not really going to be much competition for the real tech writers,
so if you want to learn nearly everything about Lion, I recommend making
a pot of tea and sitting down to John Siracusa's latest tome.
Otherwise, read on to see what I think of the new features.
So, I've been in San Francisco apartment-hunting for the past couple of days (I found a place!), and the only computers I brought with me are my iPad and my iPhone. It occurred to me that this might be a useful basis for a review, so enjoy. As a reminder, I have the 64GB model with 3G and WiFi.
In brief, I am extremely satisfied. I have been using the iPad to browse Craigslist, listen to music, keep up with my e-mail (including a community-l thread that made me long for the upcoming threaded mail view), and so on. It …
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The universe smiles on me today: on the day that I finish all of my work for my undergraduate degree, my new iPad 3G appears. It's currently doing its initial sync (photo "optimization" takes ruddy forever, and I'm only synchronizing 3000 photos). For the time being, here are my unboxing photos.
So, I've been mulling over this post for a
couple of weeks, ever since I bought the new Decemberists album,
“The Hazards of Love”. I suppose you could label it something of an
"indie rock opera". But, after a couple of weeks with it, I personally
would label it "The Best Album of 2009". The plot is a bit bizarre,
about a woman Margaret, her forest-spirit lover William, the Queen of
the forest, and a murderous rake, and it's a bit of a far-out story. The
idea of having an album that isn't just a collection of singles is bit …
So, I picked up a copy of Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast today. Yes, I know that today is January 18th and it's not released until January 20th. That's why this post isn't going to be published for two days.
Anyhow, the album is excellent. Everything you know and love from Bird's previous releases is here, but more polished. Some things that I thought particularly stood out:
Yeah …
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