by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 19, 2009 | Asides
Macworld is providing a Live Update of Apple’s Financial report today. Unfortunately, the way my desk is set up, I’m going to hurt my neck going back and forth between the playoff game and the financial results.
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 19, 2009 | Commentary
Why hasn’t Vista sold well? | via Marco.org Our industry has collectively taught average people over the last few decades that computers should be feared and are always a single misstep from breaking. We’ve trained them to expect the working state to be...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 17, 2009 | Asides
Now that they’ve announced that this was an intentional hoax, what I want to know is when everyone involved gets to go to jail. Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax – Boy in the balloon | via Gawker
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 16, 2009 | Commentary, Writing
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life by Alexander Chee | via The Morning News, via ThatWhichMatter This essay by Alexander Chee is chock full of good bits. Too many to pass on here, and yet… a small sampling: “Sometimes you write amazing sentences, she wrote...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 15, 2009 | Commentary
So, here we are again. Blog Action Day 2009 and… I’m afraid to say, we’re repeating ourselves. In 2007, the first year that Blog Action Day made an appearance, the subject matter was “Global Warming.” A worthy subject, that I wrote about...