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...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 14, 2009 | Asides
Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists. Great advice, no matter where or what you’re writing. Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again.
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 13, 2009 | Asides
As an addendum the the Twitter update I just put out, the ORIGINAL version of The Cars’ Just What I Needed. As yummy now as it was then. YouTube – The Cars – Just What I Needed live 1979
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 13, 2009 | Asides
I had a look at Pepsi’s much (deservedly?!) maligned “pick-up” app, AMP. Cheesy to say the least. But I had a real laugh at where I could look locally to find some bookish women… I’m thinking not…
