NetProspex: Verified spam. (2010/11/23)
I recently got spammed by some entity called NetProspex, which claims to have “verified” lists of various business people. They had one of my email addresses associated with my name, and were informing me that from time to time companies using their service would be contacting me with information they thought would be of interest to my business.
[read more...]Clueless spell checker leaves me joyless, pointless rant ensues. (2010/11/22)
I am listless without Shinies, but they cost money; since I am at some risk of being penniless, and thence homeless, if I get every pointless Shiny Thing I encounter, I have imposed limits on the limitless and constrained myself to getting New Shinies only when I have found boundless income, such as an extra writing project. In fact, doubtless related to this, I recently sold some peerless writing. While there is some doubt as to whether it is the Perfect Shiny, I have nevertheless acquired an iPad.
[read more...]Why health care is an outlier (2010/11/18)
I’m a pretty consistent sort, usually. I am a big fan of market economies as a way to allocate resources. They work. They work for all sorts of things, from steak dinners to cars, from telephones to glassware.
[read more...]Accountability, empathy, and liability (2010/10/27)
Something has sort of clicked recently, between a couple of different things I’ve read.
[read more...]Wow, lawnmowers got better. (2010/10/21)
For a variety of reasons (mostly having to do with gullible roommates), I haven’t actually mowed a lawn with a lawnmower in probably twenty years or thereabouts. But we got a lawnmower when we moved here; we had the clever idea of going to Sears in September to buy one, when they’d be on clearance. So we got one of the “nice” ones. Not a riding mower or anything, but it has features.
[read more...]World of Warcraft and City of Heroes: Some comparisons (2010/10/09)
One of the frustrating things for me about looking for a new MMO when Blizzard turned evil was trying to find information about them which actually communicated anything to me. For lack of a better resolution, I’m writing up a brief comparison of City of Heroes and World of Warcraft, in the hopes that it might be useful to people who are trying to pick one.
[read more...]T-mobile's G2: Android done precisely, totally, wrong. (2010/10/08)
Okay, don’t get me wrong. The fundamental hardware feature set of the phone? Great.
[read more...]Mmm shiny (2010/10/08)
It’s finally happened.
[read more...]We are living in the future. (2010/10/06)
A lot of the things people said we “would” be able to do are now pretty commonplace. One of my phones (the G2) has an app called “tricorder” that can measure gravity (well, acceleration – good luck telling those apart), magnetism, some kinds of EM spectrum, and can do real-time spectrum analysis of audio. It could probably do real-time spectrum analysis of the camera input, too, but they happen not to have written that yet. You can take a picture of an object and have a decent chance of the software figuring out what it is and telling you where you can buy one. If you can get a barcode, you’re set – it can get exactly that item for you.
[read more...]A human body? We shall do SCIENCE to it! (2010/10/04)
So, Jesse had an appointment with a rehab therapist today.
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