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Personal

Apple Has To (and Will) Have a Netbook

May 8, 2009
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On my Christmas vacation I carried a new friend with me that everyone was nuts about. What was it? What’s the brand? How much did it cost?

I had just bought a brand new MSI Wind on Amazon.com for a little less than $400 bucks.

Eight months later I can tell you that this machine has increased my work output by at least 10x. I carry it everywhere, I’m now writing a novel, two blogs and coding my next app while riding on the subway, I take it to the conference room and show power point presentations under my co-worker’s jealous glances, I surf the web while watching TV and my wife almost doesn’t mind it. Without knowing it, I had been waiting for a long time for something like this, and so were thousands of people.

The only thing, of course, is that it’s not an Apple — and I’m an Apple fan. I have an iPhone, an iMac and an iBook, and would have loved this next purchase to be an iTablet.

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As Citi Field Opens, Memories are Demolished

March 12, 2009
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I had mixed feelings of sadness and disgust as I drove by the last remaining piece of the Mets Shea Stadium.

Somehow I see what’s wrong with our economy in this image. In the name of development and progression, we are just replacing stadiums, financing the new ones with taxpayer’s money.

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Twitter’s Value Goes Down as More People Use It

February 20, 2009
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This might be something that @ev or @jack aren’t expecting. But I think it could potentially transform what users get out of Twitter, and ultimately, the future of Twitter itself.

And in some ways it might be exactly the opposite of what happens with other web businesses.

I’m starting to think that as more people use Twitter, the less valuable it becomes.

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Wired Store Coming to NYC

November 13, 2008
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The Wired Store is coming to New York City November 21st bringing gadgets to geeks and techies.

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So You Think Google is After the iPhone? Wrong!

September 23, 2008
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A number of articles today (and in the past months) have been covering the release of the first Android-powered phone, how it compares to the iPhone, and how it’ll affect Apple’s presence on the mobile business. Personally, I think it shouldn’t be compared with the iPhone at all.

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My Wife’s Fender-Bender on Google Maps

August 28, 2008

Unfortunately some truck struck my wife and our car this afternoon. In a matter of minutes I was able to see the incident on Google Maps.

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Some Developers Are Just Too Picky

July 31, 2008
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Some developers just won’t work until “certain requirements” are met. My guy Kip just went overboard; but we had no choice.

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The Pirates of Silicon Valley II

July 28, 2008
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Vanity Fair interviews people that shaped the WWW, from Leonard Kleinrock who worked in the seminal project ARPA, all the way to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

June 26, 2008
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Sometimes those things that you wish come back to you in strange ways. In my case, I really, really wanted to work in the Union Square area, but everything worked against it, or so it seemed.

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Hello World!

June 26, 2008

Here we are, again, but this time… this time it’s going to be much better.

I promise.

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