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Jul 26, 2012

This past weekend I finally tackled two projects that I had on my to do list for quite a while. Had I known how easy they would turn out to be I would have worked on them much sooner. The Read more

Jul 25, 2012

I have been spending a lot of hours driving in the last couple of days as we are on a road trip to the kids’ summer camps. Inevitably when driving long distances my mind starts wandering. In particular I have Read more

Jul 23, 2012

There has been a flurry of posts about Google’s acquisition of Sparrow. As I was reading the posts, I felt that a couple of important points were missed (or at least didn’t jump out at me). Let’s start with the Read more

Jul 20, 2012

A number of people have published lists of things that Marissa Mayer should fix as the new CEO of Yahoo. Several of these recommendations include firing a lot of people. And we can now also read Marissa's first memo to Read more

Jul 18, 2012

It’s been about 3.5 years since I bought my current MacBook. That’s usually when I start thinking about what to buy next. I like to own the same machine for at least three and possibly four years and so historically Read more

Jul 16, 2012

Dalton Caldwell kicked up a fair bit of discussion with his post on paid-for services including a defense of free by my partner Fred. Here is a slightly different take on the issue at hand when looking at “media” style Read more

Jul 12, 2012

I am excited about today’s launch of Brewster, despite it being iPhone only for the moment. Last week we spent time cleaning out the attic of our old house in the burbs (which my brother-in-law is taking over). In a Read more

Jul 10, 2012

Last time in the Tech Tuesday cycle on programming we saw that so-called reserved words have special meaning. They effectively constitute the built-in vocabulary of a programming language. Now let’s go all the way back to the basic analogy that Read more

Jul 9, 2012

A couple of weeks ago Gerhard Kallmann passed away. He was a most extraordinary man. You can read about his biography and influential work as an architect in the Boston Globe or the New York Times or one of several Read more