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The Convergence Continues

July 14th, 2008

I’m not exactly a cutting edge guy. I seem to be about six months to a year behind the digitari. For instance, I was dragged to Facebook kicking and screaming, and I discovered podcasts roughly 9 months after the “podcast renaissance” began. Consequently, I’m late to the party on this whole Jott thing.
Jott lets you record notes over your [...]

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The Convergence Has Begun

July 11th, 2008

Finally technology has begun to converge in the way we’ve been promised for the last 20 years.
I don’t watch a lot of tv these days. My evenings are usually spent with the family or online. I have a Tivo that catches the few shows I do watch though, so I’m not a slave to the [...]

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Carterphone

June 26th, 2008

There’s an excellent article on Ars Technica today on the significance of an FCC ruling in the 1960s related to a little device that could broadcast a telephone signal beyond the range of wires. You may be thinking “cell phone”, but the idea was that an oilman out in the fields far away from a [...]

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The Modern Warrior

March 4th, 2008

I remember back in the 1990s there was a period during which there was a lot of fascination with the idea of modernizing the ground soldier. I attribute it to 1) renewed interest in the military after Desert Storm I, and 2) growing awareness of this whole "internet" thing and technology in general. The articles [...]

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…is today’s theme. First up is a new surgically implanted device designed to give women orgasms. This is described as a spinal implant the size of an Altoids tin. It is designed for women who have "female orgasm dysfuntion,"  the inability to have orgasms. I guess I take "the big O" for granted, but I’d [...]

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