Some people in this town spend a career trying to finish the above sentence, but when I realized the smoke had sufficiently cleared such
Read MoreAuthor: Bill Palmer
How my iPhone frees me
As I’ve bounced around Florida the past ten days from one relative’s house to another, visiting with family and old friends and former colleagues,
Read MoreTired of being accused of illegal drug use simply because I have allergies and heartburn
I’m wide awake and feeling great and ready to rant. Wait, those things don’t all go together. So if you’ll permit me, there are
Read MoreApple pulls out of Macworld Expo: the more things change, the more they change.
I remember back in high school when I went on a marching band competition field trip to Daytona my freshman that was such a
Read MoreOn the ridiculous notion that this means Steve Jobs is somehow dying
The feedback I’ve received overnight regarding my summation yesterday on Apple’s permanent withdrawal from Macworld Expo has included more than one person who praised
Read MoreThoughts from the snow day
– I’ve got two long drives and two long flights ahead of me in the next week. The time isn’t wasted if the music
Read MoreMore thoughts from the snow day
– About those two long drives and two long flights I’ve got ahead of me in the next week. Here’s hoping I can get
Read MoreiProng Magazine issue #30
Presenting iProng Magazine’s thirtieth issue… – cover story interview with lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish and current country music chart-topper Darius Rucker
Read Moreand 2.5 years later, I finally retire my MacBook..
Last night I ordered myself a new MacBook Pro, and in so doing I’m finally putting out to pasture the MacBook I bought on
Read MoreMy take on Safari 4.0 beta
Apple’s new web browser is super fast, but the ambitious interface changes are mostly a disaster (so far). The new tabs implementation is ambitious
Read Moresomething wrong with my brain?
So my brand new MacBook Pro has some kind of video problem, which is a whole other entry for another day, but the bottom
Read MoreWhat is normal, anyway?
So I’m starting to get settled in and re-acclimated. When you’ve been gone a couple months, sometimes it’s the cultural differences that you have
Read MoreApple’s laptop repair policy is a bad joke from a bygone era
History will record that in the first seven weeks of owning this new MacBook Pro, I will have only gotten to use it productively
Read MoreAre they coming to us or are we coming to them?
The thing about meetups is that they always get me thinking. This evening at the LA Podcasters meetup, Tim Coyne and I were musing
Read MoreiProng Magazine #36 featuring Graham Nash and more
iProng Magazine is proud to present its Spring 2009 Double Issue featuring Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash, who tells us about his
Read MoreThe most ridiculous notion in all of modern American society
Imagine, if you will, an alternate reality in which the only way you could realistically have access to a car in the United States
Read MoreHands-on with the new iPod shuffle
Yesterday Apple announced the third-generation iPod shuffle, a device which manages to shrink even smaller than its predecessor while reducing its on-board interface to
Read More“the life you think I have”
In the past couple weeks in which I’ve been without my blog, life has been routinely surreal, I suppose. I’ve walked out the front
Read Moreand suddenly I no longer exist…
So I got myself into a fairly chuckle-worthy situation, and I’ll chalk it up to being my own fault, but it did get me
Read Morethe Mac netbook: next big thing, mere transitional anomaly, or chuckle-worthy decoy?
Everyone within the Apple community is asking the same two related questions these days. Should Apple release a netbook? Will Apple release a netbook?
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