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,…
Over the last several weeks, a Skylake full of ink has been spilled over this fall’s Apple crop. Actually, the press seems fascinated with three distinct topics: Insufficient magic in the 2016 MacBook Pros Apple “sticking it to pros” by offering limited RAM in the MBP Apple “sticking it to pros” by not updating the Mac Pro desktop since 2013. Issue number 1: Beginning the next day after the announcement, I had non-technical friends asking me, “what’s the deal with poor, old,…
Almost exactly three years ago, I decided to kill my Facebook account. Not log off. Delete it. It’s been gone since then, and honestly, I never miss it. When I signed on to Twitter for the first time in May of 2008, I had no idea what I would do with it. The running joke at the time was that Twitter was primarily used to let others know you were going to/were in/were back from, the bathroom. Colleagues at a startup…
A bit ago, this blog post crossed my Twitter feed. I read it, and while the schadenfreude made me smirk for a minute, it eventually made me feel bad. The blog post purports to describe how a shitty shutdown dialog became a shitty shutdown dialog. But instead, it documents something I like to call “too many puppies” syndrome. If you are working on high visibility areas of a product – like the Windows Shell – like Explorer in particular, everybody…
A few years ago, following the success of many other HDMI-connected computing devices, a new type of PC arrived – the “compute stick”. Also referred to sometimes as an HDMI PC or a stick PC, the device immediately made me scratch my head a bit. If Windows 10 still featured a Media Center edition, I guess I could sort of see the point. But Windows, outside of Surface Hub (which seemingly runs a proprietary edition of Windows), no longer features…