by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 14, 2010 | Asides
Great piece by Mark Barrett on a recent visit he made to a Best Buy where, to his great surprise, he found books. Real live books for sale. But that’s not really what the article is about. It’s about the hard sell at the point of sale, a trip he made to...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 12, 2010 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
I’ve had quite a lot pop up on Macworld over the last several days and have been so busy I haven’t had a chance to post them. So, for your reading pleasure, Macworld has now posted reviews for Blogo 1.3, Times, a new RSS feed reader for the iPad, and...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 12, 2010 | Asides
The NY Times today has an interesting article about how law enforcement officials in Russia are using anti-piracy laws to confiscate computers owned by those who are speaking out against the government. In the case cited in this article, those groups whose computers...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 6, 2010 | Asides
Op-Ed piece by John Grisham on how it is that he became a writer and on how difficult writing is in comparison to all the other jobs he’s done. …something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk. I had never worked so hard in my...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 3, 2010 | Asides
I noticed this on Ping this morning. Unfortunate to say the least. Apple’s Ping dinged by spam | via CNET News
