Archive for the ‘ General ’ Category

Apple patents a headset MP3 player

Could this be the next iPod Shuffle? http://bit.ly/2Ny7js [ READ MORE ]

History of Daylight Savings Time

With Daylight Savings Time comining up this Sunday at 2am, ever wonder where it came from? National Geographic has a great article on its history and why it exists. http://bit.ly/1pI3NV [ READ MORE ]

Vintage costume photos in celebration of Halloween

People have been dressing for Halloween for a long time now. Here are some photos of folks in the Halloween best from a long time ago. There are some great ones. http://bit.ly/2nZzUF [ READ MORE ]

The Determination to Succeed

I was looking for some photos of a vacation my family took a few years ago. It was 2005, and we were there for a 2 week vacation to enjoy Florida. As things would have it, we were also there for the first shuttle launch since the shuttle accident that resulted in the loss [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft doing retail?

I just read an article Robert Scoble wrote on Fast Company on Microsoft’s announcement on their entry into the retail arena ala the Apple Store. I think his article is spot on with regards to what they should do to be successful. My thoughts are that Microsoft should focus on selling an experience that’s unique to [ READ MORE ]

Happy New Year!

[ READ MORE ]

Flock 2.0

It’s been a while since I’ve used the Flock browser. If you’re not already aware, it’s a “Web 2.0″ friendly browser that centralizes your online life into a single tool. It identifies various types of feeds, as well as integrates into some of the more common online applications like popular e-mail sites, as well as [ READ MORE ]

What kind of nerd am I -2.0?

[ READ MORE ]

Finally watched Origins – the HP documentary on HP and HP Way

After watching the documentary, I was impressed to see that it was consistent with HP the sentiments of people I’ve worked with or for who were former HP alums. Regardless of whether they were VPs, managers or individual contributors when the HP Way was alive and well, they all shared the same sense of nostalgia [ READ MORE ]

Origins – HP documentary on Bill and Dave

I was looking up some information on Walt Disney and came across a documentary on HP. As it turns out, Walt Disney was HP’s first customer as Disney invented the first stereophonic movie with Fantasound — the Model 200B was used to test the audio equipment in 12 specially equipped theaters around the country. [ READ MORE ]