It seems appropriate to sum up the last year with what I can only call the Understatement Of The Year: We sure have learned a lot. Which, admittedly, is a euphemism for: Holy crapola, we have encountered more obstacles and challenges than we ever imagined.
There was the location dance that cost us several months. There [...]

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A few days ago, I posted about how it’s likely Obama will have to give up his Blackberry. This came to my attention in a New York Times article. Well, the Times did a related post looking at past presidents and noting how some of them had access to cutting edge innovations before the public [...]

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So I’ve been online since 1995 — not as early as the true pioneers but still, a little ahead of the curve. Mostly I just live, breathe, and work on the Internet, a fully immersed cyber citizen who ’t stop to gawk at surroundings that have been familiar to me for going on fourteen years. [...]

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First there were wild dogs. Then dogs used for hunting and protection. Then domesticated pooches for companionship. And three dog nights for warmth. And cheap costumes at Target for humanizing dogs. And now, this latest round of evolution (?): Dog 2.0.
That’s right, welcome to doggie social networking.
There’s a new radio frequency identification tag that dog [...]

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So the new Google voice search app [iTunes link] just became available for iPhones late yesterday and boy are we having fun with it. Sometimes you get what you asked for and sometimes you get something totally wrong. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get something totally wrong that is very funny, relatively speaking, to [...]

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Now that Obama has won, media scrutiny of the president elect has shifted from his campaign to what the future holds for him and his family. Beyond the political stuff — speculating who will fill cabinet positions and wondering how he can possibly keep his sweeping promises — a lot of pieces are showing up [...]

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Over the past twenty-five years or so, since I was a young adult, I’ve often enough found myself not totally on the cutting edge, but still an early-ish adopter of trends. Sometimes, this has given me odd “bragging” rights. To wit: back in the early eighties, I had first a sort of mullety haircut and [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, Raven Zachary, my friend, open source guru, and iPhone maven out in Portland, gave me a most excellent opportunity. Raven is one of ten volunteer developers working with the Obama campaign to release a free app to iPhone users looking to help make a change. The team needed beta testers [...]

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My boyfriend, Warren, is — unapologetically — a geek. He loves spreadsheets so much that I tell him I’m considering launching a line of Excel-based lingerie and sleepwear for myself and other partners of data junkies. Because maybe, in the end, the quickest way to a geek’s heart is via a pie chart or bar [...]

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Never mind Google’s new Chrome browser — that’s getting plenty of coverage elsewhere. But what’s a smaller-than-Google company to do when it comes to differentiating its wares at a big convention?
Coffeemaker manufacturer Nespresso, in addition to having an auto-play, vaguely porno soundtrack on their home page, came up with a gimmick for the recent IFA [...]

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