Ok, they don’t call it that, but the folks at AMEX Open Forum have posted an excellent set of short video interview clips about web 2.0 for small business, with Sean Parker of Facebook, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, hosted by Seth Godin, marketing blogger.
I’m often involved in helping traditional businesses grapple with the impact and [...]
I really debated a few years back when I gave up my Linux desktop and moved back to Windows. Â I was a bit reluctant to do it, but I had just too many instances of clients needing me to run a Windows-only app, and then there was the blackberry/email integration, which truly only works well [...]
First names have a longer, thinner tail than long names:
 130 first names cover 50% of the US population
2500 last names cover 50% of the US population
From another large database:
Most popular first name (male):Â Michael
Most popular last name: Smith
Now, for the interesting part …
My brothers name:Â Michael Smith
Freaky, huh?
I’m freshly back from a great family vacation to Maine, and thought I’d plunge in and get a fresh post onto this blog.  Here’s a collection of tech things I’ve been thinking about in the last week:
 The GUI or rather the VUI for GPS’s have some really subtle challenges.  We have an older Garmin [...]
Did you know you can do math and conversions in the google search bar? I needed to convert 82 7/16 inches to mm, so I can program my cycle computer for the new wheel size (changed by about 2%, so I didn’t really ride 104 miles in last Sunday’s century, more like 101.5). [...]
Thanks to Kellan, I’ve clued in about this weeks IgniteBoston at Harvard Sqaure on Thursday night. Who can resist topics like:
Telepresence robots on a budget
Interface design tenants for beautiful design
Stage magic in virtual worlds
and …
The environmental impact of a website
Plus Microsoft is sponsoring and offering a free beer (free as in beer) — I can [...]