January 2010
22 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Philip Aaberg (17)
Jim Brickman (17)
David & Steve Gordon (16)
Naturescapes Music (13)
Jordi Savall, basse de viol & direction (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Doonesbury covers the tablet release →
Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is of course no stranger to the constant expectations and travails of being an Apple…
Google Reader Gets Smart, Tracks Updates on... →
RSS, Atom, and other XML-formatted feeds revolutionized the way we keep up with our favorite web sites, allowing us to use newsreaders to track updates rather than bookmarks and constant…
Beat poet digs Macs →
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Apple
New York Times columnist John Markoff recently interviewed Beat-era poet Gary Snyder, who usually writes about the American wilderness. Markoff found…
BookBook: A classy way to protect and hide your... →
Filed under: Accessories, Odds and ends, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air
Curse you, TwelveSouth! You keep coming up with ways to make me spend my hard-earned money.
This…
San Francisco Recycled in Miniature (with Trains) →
photos by Todd Lappin
Though it’s been open since mid-November, I finally made my way to San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Glenn Gould (16)
Yo-Yo Ma (15)
Bill Webb (9)
Chris and Thomas (6)
Dead Can Dance (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
iTunes Store Facilitating Red Cross Donations for... →
Apple has set up a feature on its iTunes Store main page to allow users to donate to the American Red Cross in support of relief efforts in the wake of Tuesday’s massive earthquake in Haiti. The…
Apple Lawyers Strike Back at Valleywag Over Tablet... →
Yesterday, Valleywag received considerable attention for its questionably legal offer of up to $100,000 for legitimate information on Apple’s much-anticipated tablet device. It didn’t take long for…
Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That. →
“This is not GDrive” said Google Docs product manager Vijay Bangaru yesterday while showing me something that sure does look exactly like the fabled GDrive.
“How is it different,” I…
“You’re not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written...”
– Dr. Robert Firestone
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Return to Forever (15)
Stan Getz (10)
Chick Corea (9)
Miles Davis (9)
Vlado Perlemuter (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Facebook Takes... →
Shared by Chad
Look for videos of the attendees’ reactions to the award show on my youtube stream soon….and at unfocusedsf.com
This year’s third annual Crunchies Awards have just…
Next on my list: Dan Pink's "Drive" →
There are a few authors whose books I will always buy. I don’t even need to know the subject. I’ve read enough of their work to know that their topics and their style of writing will be…
Big Name Bolts BigLaw to Found Boutique →
One of my premises in my Law Firm 2.0 series has been that lawyers are going to leave the big firms and create boutiques that will charge 30-40% less per hour, provide the same quality service and…
Night Scenes: The Marina - Girlies &... →
I uploaded a YouTube video: This is the first in a series of short videos that Joe and I are making about different San Francisco neighborhoods, focusing mainly on the nightlife in each.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Taken By Trees (40)
Chinmaya Dunster (19)
Sublime (18)
JBM (18)
Büdi Siebert (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
★ The Tablet →
Another former Apple executive who was there at the time said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often memorable, asked, in essence, what they…