Technology

Google TV swings into action with Chris Rock The big news to me in this article is how Google TV will be using Flash to deliver its video content. Flash has near ubiquity on browsers, and the quality of its video is very good. In its first incarnations, Flash was only delivering basic vector-based content, … Continue reading »

I like the big clip on this skin for the iPod nano. It looks like this skin plus the iPod nano would be a good combo for the gym and the treadmill. ezSkin nano-Complete protection for your iPod nano

Now that Verisign has competition for SSL certificates, I decided to purchase a SSL certificate from Network Solutions (which interestingly enough, was sold off by Verisign). The main difference between the Verisign and Network Solutions certificates is the need to combine the Primary, Intermediate and Root Certificates for the Network Solutions certificate to work on … Continue reading »

Apple’s Jobs warns on ‘greedy’ music pricing – Yahoo! News On the other hand, Sony BMG CEO Andrew Lack said at a Reuters gathering earlier this year that Apple is benefiting from two revenue streams, sales of both the iPod devices and song downloads, while the music industry has only one. “I’m not making any … Continue reading »

iPod nano : Page 3 A series of amusing stress tests for the iPod nano

After some troubleshooting with Anita Holmgren of Tenon, it appears it was the weblogcron on the server that was causing the multiple sh processes which were tying up the cpu. I opened the weblogcron, and there was a lot of junk in there. I’m not sure how all the extraneous stuff got into that file, … Continue reading »

I’ve had successful updates of Tiger on a few client machines, and I just performed a successful update on a machine running Apache, MYSQL, and PHP along with a few apps using the AMP trio and nothing seemed to break. I performed this update since some sh processes have recently been tying up the CPU. … Continue reading »

One of the few times I’ve wanted to use Blogger recently, and I get this message: Down for Maintenance Blogger is temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance. This downtime will last 1 hour from 3pm – 4pm (PST). Blah! I mean, Google has a zillion servers and they own Blogger. I hope the update really … Continue reading »

Apple – iPod nano I already own an iPod mini and a 4th generation iPod 40 Gb, but this new iPod nano is an industrial design triumph that beats them both. The combination of its size, thinness, UI, and battery life will make it a bestseller. I just don’t see why someone would buy an … Continue reading »

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Ballmer Throws A Chair At “F*ing Google” I threw a chair in the office once when our ISP was giving me the runaround regarding our disconnected T1. I guess a chair is a widely available, easy to throw object in an office environment.