Year: 2009

2009 Travel Log

I just finished my last trip of the year. I just realized how much time this year I’ve spent sitting on some form of transportation, and there’s been a ton. Here’s every trip I’ve taken, ordered by transit method: Air: Denver-Philadelphia Philadelphia-Madrid Granada-Liverpool Liverpool-Amsterdam Amsterdam-Barcelona Barcelona-Granada Madrid-Dusseldorf Dusseldorf-Prague Prague-Frankfurt Frankfurt-Madrid Madrid-Dublin Dublin-Chicago Chicago-Denver Denver-Cleveland Cleveland-Harrisburg … Read more

On Yesterday’s “Terrorist” Incident

Airport security yet again failed to catch a person’s improvised weapon aboard a plane yesterday. Passengers yet again proved that they aren’t going to let shit happen on a plane in the first place. The cabin of a plane is no longer a viable place from which to carry out a terrorist act. The American … Read more

Google’s SVP of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg has a very, very good piece on open technologies and how they make serious business sense, contrary to the popular idea that products must be proprietary in order to be profitable.

Follow-up: This isn’t the DROID I’m looking for.

Last week I posted an article about my thoughts on Verizon’s Motorola DROID after using it for a week. Here’s where I stand after over two weeks now: I’m not going to keep it. I love its superior functionality. I can overlook the young OS’s shortcomings. The hardware just isn’t resilient enough. There’s no way … Read more

An iPhone user’s week with the DROID

Last week I switched from my trusty original (non-3G) iPhone to Verizon for the much-heralded Motorola DROID. I’ve been seeing Google’s Android OS maturing over the last year and a half, and now I’m convinced that within the next couple of years, Android devices are going to be a huge deal. Right now we’re seeing … Read more