Rocket Silence

“Prove that Techcrunch did not pay @biz $10,000 to get on Twitter’s suggested friend list. They sure were not more popular than @leolaporte two weeks ago.” – Robert Scoble
Well, first. When you pull a ridiculous accusation out of your ass, I do believe that the burden of proof is on you. The issue here is [...]

I can’t believe that Congress and the new administration actually passed an extension for the US Digital TV transition deadline, but alas – here we are. But look, I’ve solved the entire problem in two minutes. After the deadline, display this test card on the analog channels for one week. When old people find out [...]

“I missed you too” – on Flickr by süńdāyx

I’m disappointed with Apple. I’ve been using their machines since I was four years old and have been buying them personally for the past seven. It has been my preferred platform of choice and I’ve never been unhappy with the hardware choices available to me until now. [...]

Last week I wrote about a better than expected experience with a company, and now it’s time to take it in a different direction. I’ve mentioned the issue I’ve been having with my Xbox 360 a couple of times on Twitter, but I’ll detail the story thus far here.
About five weeks ago, my Xbox 360 [...]

Dell made quite a bit of news when they announced the latest update to their line of Latitude business notebooks. The new E-Series models are indeed quite stylish and pack a great feature set and, remarkably for Dell, clean industrial designs. But the biggest talking point that people have latched onto about these notebooks is [...]

It’s rare that I’m ever extraordinarily pleased with customer service, but this afternoon, I was. While there are a few online stores that I frequent and am quite satisfied with such as Amazon (Prime!), Newegg and Apple; very few actually surprise me like Backcountry.com did. As usual with almost everything I ever order, I missed [...]

The independent and smaller software developers for the Mac platform are the best in the business – they’re committed to the operating system and identify with the experience that the end-user has come to expect. On the Windows side of the aisle, this isn’t the case. Windows developers, as a community, seem horribly fragmented and [...]

In 2006, Activision acquired game peripheral manufacturer RedOctane and as a result, the rights to the ‘Guitar Hero’ game series. Whether or not this would be a productive move was to be seen. A few months later, Harmonix, the game developer of ‘Guitar Hero’, was acquired by MTV Networks. Neversoft took over development for ‘Guitar [...]