Year: 2023

  • Thank the Maker! “The Chronic” is back on Apple Music!

    The Chronic by Dr. Dre

  • It’s unusual for a cover of a song to exceed the original especially when that original song was written and performed by Paul McCartney.

    I randomly heard a version of “Let Me Roll It” while listening to Pandora the other day, but I believe Brendan Benson has pulled off the rare feat of surpassing a classic by Sir Paul himself.

    Let Me Roll It by Brendan Benson

  • So many deadly acts of violence over the last several days. Let’s not kid ourselves; we see this at least every day now.

    Yet no one in my almost 50 years has been able to convince me that anything in our country’s Constitution gives any one person the right to own a gun.

    We are at fault for this. All of us.

  • THE LISA: APPLE’S MOST INFLUENTIAL FAILURE

    It is pretty amazing that Apple has allowed the release of the Lisa source code so it can be studied by today’s software engineers in training. I know there is much to be learned from the pioneers of GUI interfaces buried in that source code.

  • Why Apple should have retired its (perfectly good) HomePod design

    The new (old) HomePod from Apple shows a level of laziness we haven’t seen from the company since the days of the Macintosh Performa line. Those were definitely really bad times for Apple.

    Where is the innovation? Where are the leading designs? Where are the products that get people excited enough to stand in lines around the block?

    Today’s Apple is boring.

  • What Twitter has done to third-party developers using their APIs to create unique user experiences in the Twitter ecosystem is absolutely unacceptable. The developers should have been informed well in advance of any terms of service changes so they could make changes or plan their exit. I am convinced no one actually won here. Not the users, not the developers, and not Twitter.

  • I really hope that the product architects responsible for placing the ice storage compartment for ice dispensers inside the refrigerator instead of the freezer have been reprimanded severely for their lack of foresight and judgment.

  • Live Updates: Brazil Election Protesters Storm Government Offices

    Sound familiar? Like it or not, we, the citizens of the United States, set an example for the rest of the world. It is up to us to set the example of what a constitutional republic is supposed to look like. We need to do better.