From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Techie Entertainment and Some Links

by Bruce Keener on September 28, 2007

This is another of those weeks where, after reading hundreds of links, I have found only a couple worth mentioning:

Paul Stamatiou’s first impressions of Amazon mp3 beta. Paul has a great writeup on Amazon’s new, DRM-less music store. Definitely worth checking out.
Jack Cook of Mobility Site discusses Microsoft’s Internet TV Beta. I’ve been hoping internet [...]

Miscellaneous Admin Information

by Bruce Keener on September 27, 2007

Update: Both problems fixed. The contact form works: I designed one that is not pretty but it is functional. And, turns out I had not introduced any problems into Paul’s theme: the culprit was a blasted WordPress plugin (WP-TextAds). Two problems, both caused by plugins. That’s part of the reason why I do not like [...]

Some Reflections on My PDAs

by Bruce Keener on September 26, 2007

I have owned a bunch of PDAs over the years, and was recently pondering which of those were the best. As you might suspect, I concluded that there is no “best,” but that some are better for certain types of activities and some are better for others. The following summarizes my thoughts on which ones [...]

Life Advice from a Dying Professor

by Bruce Keener on September 25, 2007

During my morning reading routine I came across an article that I felt compelled to share with you: Wall Street Journal Online has an article and interesting video excerpts from a speech made by a 46-year-old professor (Dr. Randy Pausch) who has as little as a few weeks left to live.
He has some points [...]

Online How-To Tools

by Bruce Keener on September 24, 2007

Although my consulting workload does not leave much time for blogging this week, I wanted to at least start the week off with an article. Maybe I’ll get a chance to do an additional one later this week.
Last month I mentioned the use of a how-to directory as a way of saving how-to information on [...]