Hola and thanks for reading.
FYI I’ve decided to switch up my online identity and therefore, this blog is dying … to be reborn in a remix mashup of all my blogs together at last in one spot. All new posts will live at Sparkplug 9.
Thanks so much for reading, and please join the party at […]

. . . Excel help than Excel.
Every single time I need to find out how to do something in Excel, I try to figure it out from Excel help. Search usually gets me nowhere, but sometimes gives me a clue what I should actually be searching on. But the help I usually get is […]

Well, I’m unhappy to report that Second Life is just as big a pain in the you-know-what as my first life.
I’ve had an account for years, but haven’t used it much. However, now I’m doing a paper for my master’s program in educational technology, and thought I’d get back in for some hands-on research.
Only problem? […]

This is bloody amazing:

(Saw it here.)
Tags: iphone, easy, user-friendly, baby, apple, john koetsier

OK, I’ve moved my OPML to Google Reader from Bloglines and I’m going to give it a shot.
Based on the last 15 minutes use, it’s probably going to stick.
We’ll see …
Tags: google, reader, rss, bloglines, feeds, john koetsier

There’s a great column at Strominator that explains exactly what it is:

The iPhone is not a phone, its the first generation of a new type of computing device. One that will change how we view computing. One that will make our lives simpler. We won’t have to learn how to use applications, […]

Wow wow wow.
It’s been about a year - an eternity in web terms - since I’ve seriously tried Firefox. I’ve been using Safari: it just has better aesthetics, and up till now has been significantly faster.
However, I’ve just updated, and wow … Firefox launch time is a quarter what it used to be on Mac […]

The world’s first economist studying a virtual world (more accurately: virtual universe) has delivered his first report:

This is the first Econ Dev blog on the economics of EVE. We are heading into unknown territory since there exists no standardized measures on how to describe and analyze an online universe, or if indeed there is a […]

Well, I just made my first iPhone call.
That’s no biggie to hundreds of thousands of people in the US, of course, but the iPhone has not yet been released in Canada.
Mike Skovgaard, a buddy at work, has been buying them in the US and taking them up to Canada to unlock them to work with […]

Apple is getting its ass sued off over the iPhone.
I’d like to write a scathing critique of modern idiots who buy things they haven’t researched and then blame others for their idiocy, and an equally damning tirade against companies that produce nothing, add nothing, and do nothing but think up obvious ideas, patent them, and […]