Archive for April, 2012

Mismatched Headlines and Banners
By April 25, 2012 2 Comments Read More →

Mismatched Headlines and Banners

Sometimes auto-generated headlines and images for Banner Ads are complete mismatches. Here is one I came across this morning from iStock. “Over 9 million images that are beautiful, affordable and…” filled with fire, destruction and the end of humanity! But…hey they are beautiful! (not to mention they are SAFE to download! What a relief.) Here is another one I [...]

Posted in: funny
What Kindle Needs: Unified Cloud Storage of All Notes and Highlights
By April 16, 2012 1 Comments Read More →

What Kindle Needs: Unified Cloud Storage of All Notes and Highlights

Dear Amazon, I’ve been a Kindle reader since September 2010. I love it. The point of reading an analog book (paper book) has been completely overshadowed by the utility I’ve found in being able to digitally highlight phrases, sentences, words and quotes on the Kindle–and then search those things later–on my computer. The fact that [...]

Posted in: Advice, life hack
Totalitarian Regimes and Technology a Note about North Korea's Rocket Program
By April 12, 2012 2 Comments Read More →

Totalitarian Regimes and Technology a Note about North Korea's Rocket Program

If there is one thing that History has taught us…it’s that while totalitarian regimes enslave, murder and starve their citizens they can muster great leaps forward with their technology. For example Nazi Germany with the V2 rocket program and Russia with the Sputniks. Both of which soundly beat the West with massive leaps forward in applied [...]

Posted in: writing