With the end of the year just about 10 days away, I thought a roundup of my favorite apps, tools, and gadgets of 2021 was in order. I’ve done these roundups before (see, for example 2013 and 2014) and it can be fun to look back at the old ones and see how the state…
The EZ Pass that I ordered last Thursday arrived today! Actually, it was delivered to my next door neighbors by mistake but he brought it over this evening. This means I will no longer have to throw change in the toll booths when I drive up to New York. I can’t wait to try it…
Well, there’s no point in beating around the bush so I’ll just come out and say it: I am the proud owner of a new iPhone. I feel rather like a hypocrite. I have said on many occasions to numerous people that as cool as I thought the iPhone was, I just never wanted to…
Just about my entire team works in Santa Monica. Two of the team members work in Pittsburgh and I am the only one here in Washington. That means most of my meetings are audio-conferences. I rarely see faces. While we have video conferencing rooms, we never use them. Today, however, I installed a Logitech QuickCamTM…
Norm was making fun of my digital camera nearly two weeks ago when we gathered for the Rainbow Room dinner. My digital camera is a Canon Powershot A-somethingorother and it is circa 2001. It is a 2.1 megapixel camera and it weighs about 9-1/2 pounds, so it’s no wonder that he was making fun of…
I’ve been incredibly busy today, both writing code and giving presentations. But I have a few minutes before I head off to the gym and I’ve been itching to write about something I was thinking about in the shower last night. Are you manual or electric? In thinking about manual things in our life and…
Nine years ago today, on September 15, 1997, I ordered my first cell phone. I ordered it through AirTouch (which I don’t think exists any longer). I ordered their “Cal 30” plan, which cost $20/month for the first 3 months and $30/month thereafter. We could make free phone calls to our home phone number and…
I mentioned in an earlier post that while shopping with jen_ashlock and Jason for a flat panel TV, I was overcome with the sudden urge to buy one myself. Well, Jen and Jason got theirs and now I have to get mine. I was looking at 32″ flat panel models, which were about as big…
I’ve been threatening to get new sunglasses for the last month or two, and today, at lunchtime, I went downstairs to the mall and bought a new pair of black Oakley Whiskers to replace the ones I got nearly 2 years ago. The new Oakleys are lighter and they are also polarized. It’s bright and…