I've been distracted -- maybe to the point of being primarily focused -- on a 10-minute talk I'm giving sometime between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. this Saturday at TEDxMileHigh. It's at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, with maybe 1,500-2,000 folks expected to attend. It should be…
Maya, my six-year-old daughter, approached my home-office desk the other day and stood behind me for a moment. I face a wall, sort of box-canyon like, because the home office is a small converted dining room. But I could see her hazy reflection in the monitor.
She should have been having snack. I'd walked the puggle…
My external keyboard, a Microsoft thing, seems to aspire to being an IBM Selectric, clacking so loudly phone-interview sources get self-conscious. So I went online and found this HP Wireless Elite Keyboard on Amazon for $29.
The HP Wireless Elite Keyboard, so flat it disappears into the horizon
It was more or less what I was looking…
Apple recently announced its results for the three months ended June 25. More than $7 billion in net income for the quarter -- not bad. I've been thinking about the massive scale of our aggregate consumption, though, so a couple of other numbers were more interesting.
The company sold 9.25 million iPad 2's in the quarter.…
I dig technology, but tend to be a late adopter. One of the few exceptions was in June 2009, when I was quick to jump on the Palm Pre. The iPhone Killer. Sprint's first real smartphone. It was a revelation, the device.
Just look at that baby. The Sprint Palm Pre, circa 2009.
Slide-out keyboard, cards you…