by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 9, 2012 | Asides
Take a look at this picture and tell me what unemployment trend you see. I know it’s anecdotal, but most of the people in this line are males over 50. via LATimes.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 8, 2012 | Theater
An excellent collection of interviews about Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Salesman was the first piece of live professional theater I ever saw and today I can still feel the weight of that production. (Thank you Ashland Shakespeare Festival!) It is currently in...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 22, 2012 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
My review of iOS tax apps is now up at Macorld.com. Once again, TurboTax takes the cake. Find the best mobile tax filing app for iOS
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 22, 2012 | Asides
An interview with David Foster Wallace who would have been 50 years old today | via DangerousMinds.net UPDATE: What I wish most about this interview is that Charlie rose would just STFU.
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 22, 2012 | Asides
Kirk McElhearn on one of my favorite distraction free text editing applications, WriteRoom. I’ve moved to Elements on my iOS devices, but WriteRoom on the Mac remains one of the best text editors that you’ll every lay hands on. WriteRoom Productivity...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 20, 2012 | Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
My reviews of TurboTax Premiere 2011 and H&R Block at Home Premium 2011 are now up at Macworld.com. Both applications are very good at making sure you get your taxes done right, although TurboTax gets a slight edge for its simplicity, thoughtfully designed...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 18, 2012 | Asides
Like the curtain finally falling from the Wizard of Oz to find just a small, frail, man pretending to be far more powerful and relevant than he really was. Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not...
