Monthly Archives: September 2006

RTFM

I just unpacked my new high-falutin’ clock radio (with has an awesome user interface) and inexplicably paged through the manual, where I happened upon this:

CONNECTING THE FM ANTENNA WIRE
The FM antenna comes pre-attached. If the antenna is disconnected, follow these steps to reconnect it:

Push the “F” connector plug on the end of the antenna wire […]

Seppuku 2.0

Sprout Commerce has figured out how to commit suicide in the Web 2.0 ecosystem.
Immediately after Pete Cashmore’s glowing review in April I began using MyPickList to manage my wishlists, rather than using the “buy” tag in del.icio.us as I had before (and limiting myself to items that have records on Amazon.com is so Web 1.0).
Imagine […]

Juror 842

Last week I spent Monday through Wednesday performing my civic duty as a juror in a civil trial. A few observations follow, skip down the most entertaining one.

At least two of the dullest crayons in our box barely had the cognitive capacity to determine where on the block the courthouse is. If I’m […]

iToldYouSo

Apple has pre-announced their TV-integration product, tentatively named iTV.
This is exactly what I’ve predicted the long-rumored “Asteroid” product to be. Since Apple embraced video on the iPod it’s been a simple conclusion that Airport Express and Front Row would end up in a targeted device. Lately I wondered if they were going to […]