Category: off-topic

  • I’m over at The Boston Globe

    As of June, 2021, I’ve left Fortune (and the Data Sheet newsletter) and joined The Boston Globe as a reporter on the newly formed tech team in the business section. My focus will be more on the local Boston/New England tech scene, but with occasional forays into broader topics. You can find my stuff on…

  • (Not) I’m over at Fortune writing about tech and telecom now

    As of the end of March, 2016, I’ve left Yahoo Finance and hopped over to the tech team at Fortune. Most of my stuff is for the web site, with occasional magazine pieces as well. I’m concentrating on the big four telecom carriers plus a few other companies, such as Intel, Qualcomm and Fitbit. It’s all…

  • (Not) I’m over at Yahoo Finance writing about tech stuff now

    Hi folks. Sorry for the long hiatus between posts. A few months back, I was hired as senior technology reporter by Yahoo Finance. So now my hobby is my job. You can find pretty much all of my tech-related views and such, in text and video, over at my YF author page from now on.…

  • Android Android amongst the scifi

    New header image today — it’s the Android Android cookie jar that sits amongst my scifi collection.

  • Elisabeth Sladen passes on to the great Tardis in the sky

    Actress Elisabeth Sladen, most famous for playing Doctor Who’s sidekick Sarah Jane Smith, died this week at age 63 of cancer. I was a big fan of her spin-off show, the Sarah Jane Adventures. Here’s to you Ms. Sladen.

  • Stone age video games

    Changed the header image from the pile o’ acorns to the rock eats rocks seen above. Picked up a few rocks that reminded me of PacMan. I call this image “Stone Age Video Game.”

  • How true is The Social Network? Entirely and not at all

    The new movie The Social Network directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin purports to tell the story of Facebook’s founding. Like viewers of all major motion pics based upon true events, the audience is left wondering just how many of the events depicted in The Social Network really happened. How accurate is…

  • I’m Doomed, or the latest, greatest Fran’s Chocolates

    Remember back in December when I discovered those addictably delicious Fran’s Salted Caramels and promptly ate about a zillion dollars worth? Well, Fran is back. Among recent birthday presents, my fabulous wife found that Fran’s has extended their line to some kind of super-powered, dark chocolate-covered Snickers bar redux called the Almond Gold Bar. Let’s…

  • God is god: Ron Moore’s most excellent end for BSG

    So it’s over. Last night marked the final episode of one of the more original and fascinating television series to come along, Ron Moore’s thoughtful re-imagining of the cheesy 1970’s scifi classic Battlestar Galactica. In Moore’s hands, and made possible by a very talented cast, the newly-updated Battlestar Galactica, or BSG as they say on…

  • Added a page of stuff I’m trying out

    I just moved over from my old site a page I call “just messing with,” which lists software, web sites or gadgets that I’m giving a trial run. That’s followed on the page by a list of things that didn’t make the cut, under the heading “Canned.” Today, I just quickly cut and pasted the…