The other day, I pondered deleting my blog entirely. But I realized a couple of things that made me reconsider: Even though my day job is writing, I really do enjoy writing on my own, for fun. I’m not terribly artistic – so writing of any kind is more or less my creative outlet. As my 45th birthday approaches, I find myself reflecting, and sort of missing the challenge that the Honolulu Marathon presented to me – it was a…
I love planes. I always have. I love any mechanical contraption, so why wouldn’t I love planes? They’re amazing, absolutely gorgeous, technically incredible creations, that make our world so much smaller… but they have the power to terrify me, unlike any other means of transportation. The other day, Brad Sams posted about his flight anxiety, and it really hit home for me. Brad and I have talked several times over Twitter before about the “joys” of flying, usually when one…
When Apple did their annual phone hardware announce last year, I couldn’t have been less excited. I was reasonably happy with my 6s, but it wasn’t acting ideal. A replacement I got under AppleCare after my original 6s started having problems charging, this one worked alright, but was having some weird performance problems. After the close of last year’s event, I felt no urge to get any of the three new phones. If you follow me on Twitter, you likely…
A few months ago, before Microsoft announced their new Surface Laptop or Windows 10 S, I had several conversations with reporters and friends about what might be coming. In particular, some early reports had hinted that this might be a revision of Windows, something designed for robustness. Some thought it might be more Chromebook-like. Given the experiences of my daughters with Chromebooks, those last two sentences are oxymorons. But I digress. What arrived, Windows 10 S (AKA “Windows 10 Pro in…
As I head into the weekend, I’m prepping for my second work trip of the year. First up was Orlando, back in January. While we often don’t have a ton of free time in some of the cities we hit for our licensing boot camps, my colleague and I usually have a bit free, and in particular, have time for specific dining options. San Diego is a funny one, because while I usually have a set of places I like…
Yesterday on Twitter I said: Find the little joys. Treasure them. I mean this sincerely. Our lives can be overwhelming. But I believe that the key to living a life worth living is to find these little joys. If you follow me on Twitter, you may see these from me sometimes. A video of a bird singing. A photo of a flower. A sunset, or often a photo from a 737 as I fly to or from one of our…
“Death of the United States?”, you ask, shaking your head at the lunacy of a blog post that dares to suggest such a thing. As we sit here in 2017, days into a new administration, we are faced with a dangerously narcissistic man in the White House who has suggested voter fraud based on no provable facts, but instead based on his own opinion; a press secretary who parrots whatever he is told, whether it is provably false or not;…
A quick audio clip I recorded last night, of an amusing event from my childhood. Apologies if the audio isn’t perfect.
There has been much written over the past year about Intel and the arrival of the end of Moore’s law – at least as we knew it. Earlier today, a friend sent me a link to an Ars Technica piece discussing Kaby Lake, and what a letdown it was in terms of desktop CPU performance momentum. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. The desktop CPU is dead. Don’t tell your friends who are big desktop gamers… they’ll…
Yesterday, when I heard the news from Microsoft’s WinHEC announcements stating, “Windows 10 is coming to ARM through a partnership with Qualcomm”, my brain went through a set of loops, trying to get what this really was, and what it really meant. Sure, most of us have seen the leaks over the past few weeks about x86 on ARM, but I hadn’t seen enough to find much signal in the noise as to what this was. But now that I’ve thought about it,…