We were the first people on our block to have a Tivo, and we were instant converts. Even Amy, who thought I was being a gadget fetishist when I originally bought it. Actually, I’d say Amy became even more a believer than I. But those first generation Tivos were prone to breaking– our drive died [...]
21st Amendment
Food style/ethnicity: American
Price: 8 - 18 (USD)
Location:
San Francisco, CA 94117
USA
Food rating: 3 out of 5
Decor rating: 4 out of 5
Service rating: 4 out of 5
I’ve been here several times, but wrote it off as your average brewery– good for a lark, [...]
I suppose I was late for the party, but this year I made the conversion back into a Mac user after a five year drift to the PC. My prodigal return has changed my work habits and improved my life beyond measure. Definitely the product purchase of the year for me (with the cloud blanket [...]
Audible has always had huge utility for those of us with a larger appetite for books than time to read. Overall, their subscription service has served me well over the years. However, their site has always been slow, hard to navigate and contains one of the worst search functions I’ve seen. There latest redesign, with [...]
Us optimists are so used to looking at technology through utopian-tinted glasses that we ignore the disheartening (or evil) purposes it’s often put to. Dana Boyd over at zephoria pointed out this piece in the NYTimes.
First off, doesn’t this guy, Howard Stapleton–the founder of this company–look like a villain straight out of a silent film?
His [...]