News

Amazon down but not out

Amazon.com is experiencing an outage, the most complete I’ve ever seen on the site. The last time I saw an outage on the site was Christmas before last when they were offering mad sales to the first 100 customers on certain items, but even then they had a helpful error page, rather than just a...

Jun 06, 2008 1 minute read.

Technology

Amazon Still down, money down too

I previously reported that Amazon.com was down with a non-descriptive error message. After almost 2 of downtime it seems they’ve decided to have a friendlier error message , so it seems at least they are acknowledging that something is wrong now, but it is still down. According to CNet, this...

Jun 06, 2008 1 minute read.

Media Mentions

Interview with Nick Moline published in PC World Magazine!

Ok, I admit it, I haven’t been a subscriber to PC World magazine in a few years, even before I became a member of the Mac camp, but I’m really excited to say that a couple of interview questions with me are now published in PC World! in an article about Google I/O. It was very cool to be able to...

Jun 02, 2008 1 minute read.

Event Review

Google App Engine: Google I/O 2008 Part I

This week I, as well as my Wife Barbara , and my co-worker Dan , went to Google I/O . People who have read my blog for a while may remember that last year I attended Google Developer Day around this same time in San Jose. This year Google decided to expand from a single-day to a whole two-day...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.

Event Review

The Opening Keynote: Google I/O Part II

Google is following its trend from last year’s Google Developer Day by posting up videos of all of the sessions on YouTube, but so far I can only find the Opening Keynote. They promised that they would upload them all within a week, so expect more parts of my reviews of Google I/O as they become...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.

Movie Reviews

For Narnia, and for Aslan!

My Wife, Barbara , and I, as well as our roommate Mike , just got back home from seeing The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian , and it was fantastic! I’m not going to say much about it here, because I’m intending on recording an episode of The Looking Glass on Wizards.FM tomorrow, in which...

May 17, 2008 1 minute read.

Event Review

7-11 Gave me the Finger - and other stories...

April is here, and that can only mean one thing… practical jokes. Tuesday was April Fools day, and as usual, the jokes and pranks were out in full force. Some of them elaborate, some of them simple, and most of them funny. One of the more elaborate ones this year was a promotion done by the...

Apr 04, 2008 5 minute read.

Event Review

Macworld 2008 Article Published!

Last week I attended the MacWorld Conference and Expo 2008 in San Francisco as I did last year. The reason I did not write a post on my blog for the event however is because I’m pleased to announce that I have written an article reviewing MacWorld for the distinguished e-zine, LLRX (The Law...

Jan 23, 2008 8 minute read.

Life

Happy New Year 2008!

Has it been a year already? It seems like such a short time ago that I sat up at 2 a.m. in a hotel room in San Simeon, CA writing about 2006. I claimed 2006 as incredible and, an “oddity” in my life as for the first time in recent years I was not alone and sad on New Year’s Eve. Tonight I’m...

Jan 01, 2008 3 minute read.