by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 2, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Macworld, Reviews, Writing
My review of QuickBooks 2013 is now up at Macworld.com. QuickBooks 2013 Remains pretty much what it was last year (and the year before that and the year before that). There are still some bugs left over from last year and it still lacks the kind of cross platform...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 8, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Food
The Times just reviewed the latest addition to what is becoming an increasingly interesting food scene in Beacon, the town where I live. The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls is a gorgeous restaurant that is housed in what was, for as long as I have lived here, a derelict...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 21, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
Jim Dalrymple has a great idea: Apple should sue Mike Daisey and give the money to Chinese workers. It should be noted that what Daisey did, and, unfortunately by association, what This American Life did, could be construed as libel: libel (for written, broadcast, or...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 16, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Writing
So… there’s going to be an update on This American Life tonight about a story they ran in January based on a stage play by Mike Daisey. To put it bluntly, as Ira Glass did on the TAL blog: Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 15, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
Yesterday afternoon Tapbot’s Paul Hadad began posting an interesting data set to his Twitter feed in the wake of the discovery that the Path app was uploading personal data to their servers without disclosing that they were doing so. What Hadad did was look at...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 15, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
Gruber on the mute switch and the recent Mahler’s 9th iPhone stupidity: I think the current behavior of the iPhone mute switch is correct. You can’t design around every single edge case, and a new iPhone user who makes the reasonable but mistaken assumption that...
