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Ted Stevens Owned By Jon Stewart
I heart YouTube. It’s like TiVo online with crappy semi-decent quality (I can’t complain). This is definitely old news amongst bloggers and those who follow news on technology. The argument is about Net Neutrality and Jon Stewart from the Daily Show is poking good old humor on our long time friend, Alaskan [...]
Pre Game Show At Microsoft
So it was my first official day at Microsoft. I only call it offocial because I am now on payroll (woot!). It was a pretty basic orientation for new employees (NEO). Nothing really exciting except listening to all the nifty benefits as an employee and getting my wicked cool CardKey. Even [...]
Farewell Retail
After five years of committment to service, I have ended the Cronicles of Banana Republic: A Kevin’s Tale. It really was bitter sweet as I was ending a part of my life that I have grown so acustom to for so long. Sharing a lot of good times with friends and being skillful [...]
Quick Update On My Life
With so many passing days without blogging, I think I will just post a bunch of links of all the interesting discoveries I’ve come acrossed.
By the way, I sent in my two week notice with Banana Republic. The end of my life with retail seems to be at an end. Somewhat bitter sweet.
Principles [...]
A Chance With The Cognitive Science Engineering Laboratory & Klein Associates
I was speaking with my professor, Axel Roesler about the day’s lecture on cognition and its influence on design. He studied conigition and interaction design at Ohio State University earning a Ph.D. His time there provided opportunities to work with leading members of design engineering studies such as Gary Klein and Edwin Hutchins. [...]
Boot Camp Won’t Play Nice With Schools
There is a lot of good, and a lot of bad when you make change. I defintely saw a lot of good in Apple’s new approach to the operating system battle, where dual booting is now officially possible with Boot Camp. Now in retrospect, and reading an article from the Unofficial Apple Website, [...]
Windows on Mac (Officially)
Once upon a time, there was a man who told his boss that they should buy a MacBook Pro because you can use it to dual boot Windows and Mac OS X. Well shortly he learned it wasn’t that simple, and a lot of hacking was required. So he started a contest, where people [...]
UMPC: Ultra Mobile Portable Computer
Are you guys familiar with the latest and greatest of all technological innovations to hit the streets? Well here is another one to add to the check list. The UMPC or Ultra Mobile Portable Computer is essentially a smaller version of the ever emerging Tablet PC. Windows hinted the existence of this device [...]
Trusted Companies: Apple, Bose and Dell Top 3
Ars Technica has an article on a Forrester Research releasing their semiannual survey on how much we trust popular consumer electronic brands. As titled: “The 2005 Technology Brand Scorecard” Bose ranked the highest having both greatest potential for growth and consumer trust. Apple was given high marks for trust but viewed as having [...]
