I like this Steve Jobs quote: “a technology in search of a problem.” Saw it here, and doesn’t it ring a bell when you look at some of the consumer electronics products available today ….

It’s a big day … we’ve recently launched our new calendar-creation site, and today we had our first orders!
The site is an incredibly simple way to create a quality wall calendar with your own photos … and benefit schools as well. (Each calendar bought means $5 goes to a school of your choice.) You also […]

All the speculation and rumors about Google base is hitting the web right now, and I’m as intrigued about this as most.
But lots of people are looking at this and ‘finding’ evidence of a master plan … that Google is going to marry this with Froogle and start competing with Craigslist and eBay etc. etc.
Well, […]

Went to the Vancouver Enterprise Forum tonight.
There were a couple of great presentations … Dick Hardt’s on Identity 2.0 was very cool. What is identity, who are you, and how the heck other people, sites, and processes know who you are. He’s the founder of Sxore and Sxip, building various identity services for solutions from […]

I learned a new word last Friday.
Mike Suto, one of our company’s trainers, left a great job a few years before coming to our company. It was a high-paying, high-profile, high prestige job that was also a high-stress job. Mike had cancer, his personal life was not where he wanted it to be, and he […]

I just saw this tease of an intro at MacDevCenter.com:

Editor’s note: When I recently saw the new iMac with the iSight built in, it reminded me of a project we’ve been working on. In a nutshell, Matthew Russell and I have been talking about using the iSight to take and classify images, such as those […]

You know, aside from all the standard idiocy you can find in GM and other North American car makers (note that their home page is currently promoting the Yukon, a massive, heavy, gas-guzzling monster), there is always room to be surprised by fresh instances of complete cluelessness.
Case in point:

Note the little icon in the address […]

Use this script to take out the trash ….

Somehow, somewhere I found a link to Mainichi Daily News, an English-language website of a Japanese newspaper.
It’s a fascinating window into Japan. In Japan, apparently, ‘Office ladies’ put dishwater and laxatives into their male bosses’ coffee, and cats eat old womens’ toes and, after years of oppression, people with large feet are cool again.
The articles […]

… in Valley Fair Mall in San Jose. OK, so it’s Santa Clara.
Lots of cool toys for my iPod. No new iMacs yet, of course …