Last week, Anne dropped her bag with her MacBook in it on the floor. She didn’t think anything of it until hours later when she went to turn on her computer and the LCD display was cracked inside. Lots of scary broken lines appeared with only a small section on the left actually working. I …
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Last week, I finally got a new laptop, a shiny new MacBook Pro. (Thanks, boss!) It replaces my 44-month old one which is well past its glory days. The new one has some nice upgrades too: 2.53 Ghz i5 processor 256MB SSD Drive High-res, non-glossy screen The screen upgrade is great – the 1680 by …
It’s hard to believe, but today is my last day working at Yahoo. I started on Oct 1, 2001 when the LAUNCH acquisition was completed. I started at LAUNCH in April of 1999, so that’s over a decade with the same company or over three quarters of my working life. It would be impossible for …
I ran across this email today which I sent out to friends and family in April of 1999. It was a start of some interesting times for me and was fun to read again. Exactly one year ago today I emailed many of you and announced that Anne and I were moving to Seattle as …
Introducing Elliott Richard Boulter, born at 7:20 pm in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 14, 2010, weighing 6.9 lbs with blue eyes and brown hair. Both Anne and Elliott are doing great.
Soon after the iPad was released, I wrote about how I thought Apple missed the mark with this product. Not everyone agreed. Today I got to play with one for a few hours and I stand by my initial impressions. Reviewing my original comments: 10. It doesn’t replace your laptop or phone. Definitely true. There’s …
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There’s been a lot of talk about the US vs. Canada in terms of who “won” the Olympics. The US had more medals won, but Canada won more gold medals. What they should be measuring is how productive each country is by population. Here’s a list of countries who won at least one medal, sorted …
A few days ago, my trusty 3.5 year old MacBook Pro started making some strange sounds. It was just a little rattling at first, then it got louder. And louder. And louder until it sounded like this: It was impossible to concentrate or watch a video on it with all the buzzing and vibration. At …
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The iPad was announced yesterday after months of speculation and rumors. I didn’t think I needed a tablet computer and tried to ignore all the coverage, but with so much hype, I couldn’t help but be drawn into it and watch the live coverage as it was demoed. Steve Jobs unveiled one of his typical …
We have our home phone forwarding to a Google Voice number on no answer. It replaces the crappy Verizon voicemail service we used before. Best of all, Verizon set up the call forwarding for free. While it’s convenient to be able to check our voicemail via email, the transcriptions are not always helpful. Today’s example: …
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