by David | Jan 21, 2013 | economics, technology, working
So, it has come to this. I am on the verge of buying a Hello Kitty flash drive and sending it to the cloud, aka Salesforce.com. Why would I so such a thing, you ask? I’ve discovered that Salesforce.com allots you 1,000 MB (that’s one gigabyte in...
by David | Nov 29, 2012 | design, economics, technology
Those who were not set to sawing wood will remember that earlier this year I acquired my maguffin of wood-encased clock radio ipod dock goodness, the Vers 1.5R. I had some reservations and some revelations, and I’ve come to an accommodation with the device. For...
by David | Nov 13, 2012 | economics, technology, transportation, urbanism
Thanks to the alert folks at Universahub, I found out yesterday that you can buy Mass Bay Commuter Rail tickets with a mobile app on your iPhone or Android thingus, at least for the North side lines for now. Naturally, I had to try it. After all, I’ve got...
by David | Oct 21, 2012 | reading & writing, science!, technology
I’ve been a huge fan of E ink for ten years now. I visited the company’s Cambridge office back when I was in business school and was very impressed with the technology. So when the original Kindle hit the market a couple of years ago, I was very...
by David | May 25, 2012 | reading & writing, technology, working
Do they teach email writing in school? They certainly did not when I was in school, perhaps because there was no email back then. I suspect they still dont’t teach anything about email except maybe how to change the fonts and click the send button. I’m...
by David | May 19, 2012 | science!, technology
In places like New York City, you can easily measure distance in blocks and people generally know how far that is in miles or minutes. In New York City, everybody knows that Manhattan street blocks are about 20 to the mile, and most New Yorkers can walk about one such...
