Technology

As I was hiking up Quandary Peak on Saturday, I regularly looked at my Garmin 305.  I had four data fields displaying – distance, total time, heart rate, and lap

Now that I’m 42 years old, I’ve been around the computer industry long enough to understand that it runs in cycles.  I don’t know how long the cycles are going

On today, this day of endless blogging / talking (and hopefully downloading) of Google Chrome, I thought I’d go retro and write about my renewed hunt for the 4GL.  But

Scott Converse has a wonderful post up titled Is Apple a Republican?  After reading it, I pondered my relationship with Apple and realized that it is just like my relationship

Om Malik discovered that Microsoft has received a new and exciting patent on "page up and page down."  It was issued on 8/19/08.  I just read the summary and this

It’s DNC time in Denver and all kinds of weird advertisements are popping up all over the place, including the airport.  My partner Jason sent me a photo of this

Yippee – the criticism of the software patent stupidity is starting to heat up and some really smart people are making both useful arguments about the issues and interesting proposals

I’m knee deep in reading The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, listening to Pink Floyd, and enjoying a perfect Homer, Alaska evening with Amy.  I was an undergraduate

Microsoft is trying to.  It’s up on PeerToPatent and you can comment on this patent application (and the USPTO will presumably listen to you) if you’d like to help keep

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article titled Tech Giants Join Together To Head Off Patent Suits.  It describes the efforts of a new organization named Allied Security Trust who’s