If you’re lucky enough to be on a Mac, then you’ve probably had the pleasure of using Quicksilver, an application launcher, document searcher, and general computing-life enhancer.
Well, I just found Colibri, an application for Windows that does many of the same things. It makes launching an application as easy as typing the first few letters [...]

A lesson in trusting computers: don’t trust them. As I learned the hard way yesterday, if you’re not willing to do a small amount of human thinking, you’re at the mercy of a machine, and the machine is not always as smart as you think.
Case in point: I had a meeting with my sister last [...]

BusinessWeek starts a blog by writing a news article that looks like a blog post about blogging. Well, at least they got the self-referencial part.
Fortunately, they got the tone right, too:
Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in [...]

Google Desktop Search Download.
“Search company Google is testing software that lets people navigate the Web without opening up an Internet browser, placing itself in a field that Microsoft has designs on–desktop search.
On Thursday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company debuted the Google Deskbar. The downloadable software for users of Microsoft’s Windows operating system puts [...]

Oh lord, the marketing gimmicks have fooled me again.
In which: I get suckered into ordering DVDs of ill-repute; I violate Yahoo’s terms of service; I try to convince you to do the same.
Rumors circulate on the Internet like pieces of excrement in a toilet: they are kept afloat only because stupid people keep picking [...]

Not the day, the detective.
In lieu of a light, meaningless story about some trivial aspect of my life, I’d thought I’d treat you to something more substantial. I don’t claim to be knowledgable about anything, but I am quick to use new technology to help do the things I want to do, so here’s [...]

Textiles come from plants and animals. My 300 count cotton sheets were once prickly tufts swaying atop tall reeds in a field somewhere in India. In my dresser are sweaters that long ago were permanently attached to the skin of a lamb. The lamb probably sat in poop once or twice, and the wool that [...]

Three years ago, when I decided if I was going to get an undergraduate degree in anything, it might as well be journalism, I had no idea the profession was about to undergo major changes. Everything changed within days of my setting foot at the J-school: September 11th. Then Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, the war [...]

I’m preparing a presentation on blogs and RSS for our next staff meeting at work, and I thought I’d talk a little about what I’ve found and what I think.
Most of the people I work with are familiar with blogs to varying degrees. A few people regularly read at least one (Kos, Drudge, The [...]

I’m deep in the soup of competing high speed internet plans. There about seventeen different ways to do this, which is funny since there’s only one company to do it through: Comcast.
What ever happened to the free market? My options for HSI are simple; Comcast or Comcast. DSL isn’t available, so that leaves cable, [...]