A bit more than a year ago, I posted a article on the Dafacto blog about switching from a Tom Bihn Ristretto to Co-Pilot, as my daily carry bag. And during the past year, I have come to love the bag even more; its organizational structure and capacity is absolutely perfect for my daily commute to and from the office.
Can’t decide what to get her for Valentine’s day?
11 February 2015
I was struggling with the question of what to get my wife for Valentine’s Day, until this thoughtful email arrived from Seagate. I’m going to capture her heart—with a hard drive.
I’m an Anti-Braker
10 February 2015
You can’t beat the market
10 February 2015
So much of the financial services industry’s value proposition resides on the premise that markets can be beaten. With the most talented managers, the best research and cutting edge processes and algorithms, the modern financial firm promises to get you ahead, in exchange for fees that would otherwise kill long-term returns.
Years later, this still cracks me up
09 February 2015
A new version of PDFpenPro is available! Do you want to download it?
09 February 2015
This dialog box announces that a new version of PDFPenPro is available for download, and specifically asks me if I want to download it. So which of the three buttons would correspond to, “Yes”?
The disconnect between publishers and consumers
09 February 2015
Over on Rantbox, I posted a note about 9to5mac killing their full RSS feed, in the same way that TUAW did a while back—which, for me, marked the beginning of TUAW’s decline.
Beginning of the end for 9to5 Mac?
09 February 2015
For many years I was an avid reader of TUAW, “The Unofficial Apple Weblog”, for my daily dose of Apple-related news. But then something happened. Things changed.