2011 – Zeke Weeks

High-end Android Phones Serve Everyone But the User

December 24, 2024December 17, 2011

Yesterday, I headed to my local Verizon Wireless store to try out the Galaxy Nexus, the latest designed-by-Google phone from Samsung. While I was there, I also tested the current top-of-the-line LTE phones from HTC (the Rezound) and Motorola (the DROID RAZR). I’ve written my impressions of each below, but in testing all three, I … Read more

If There Ever Was A Time: Occupy Wall Street single by Third Eye Blind

January 29, 2024November 17, 2011

Third Eye Blind has written and released a free single about Occupy Wall Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gf45vXByCg Here’s the MP3 file if you want it: If There Ever Was A Time

A Day In Technology: 2011

January 29, 2024October 22, 2011

I’m a technology nerd, and I’ve come to embrace and enjoy it. One of the ways I like to document and look back on my life through the years is by considering how I use technology daily. A couple of times before (2007, 2010), I’ve written about the typical tools I use, as well as my comments on how well they do or don’t work for me. I find it fun to read about others’ setups on The Setup, a blog dedicated to posts like this one.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

December 24, 2024October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs’ visionary products changed our culture. But I think his philosophy of life, work, and death have meant event more to me.

It’s fitting that his own words about death are the ones that help me put his death in perspective, but also my own life:

Namaste, Steve.

My iPhone 4S reaction

January 29, 2024October 4, 2011

Having watched the iPhone 4S announcement, it’s clear to me that Apple is unmatched in overall phone quality for most people: designing everything from the processor silicon, to the camera lens, to the app ecosystem puts them in a class of their own. The only hope for competitors to make a better phone is to … Read more