Author Archives: Jeff Porten

  • David Chartier:
    Yeah so, the T-Mobile iPad Air not such a great idea if you want to use data during cross-country train travel.

Between which points? I have no trouble with TMo, but I’m mainly NE Corridor.

  • Jason Snell:
    dary… The Wikipedia edit war about Paul McGann’s tenure as The Doctor is going to be legen–[wait for the time loop]–
  • Serenity Caldwell:
    Immediately after I watched it, I went to the Whovian Wikipedia. All updated. Craziness.

Confused. New 8th Doctor story?

Yes, I found ‘s tweet after my initial confusion.

  • Glenn Fleishman:
    I?ve retconned all my tweets. You won?t remember anything. Ren finds a ringtone. ?But?how could I forget?”

I recall disliking the ’96 Who, now wondering whether it deserves a re-watch.

, for you the New 52 retcon is the number of milliseconds delay before each new tweet.

  • James Hutson:
    There is no rewatching. There is only editing it out of reality? What were we talking about?

  • Josh Centers:
    So apparently I’m invited to CES and will be speaking. Tempting.
  • Jeff Carlson:
    Gotta do it at least once. And then never again.

I’ll be there, but if you want to join me, I’m not complaining.

I always find some worthwhile fodder. But I seem to be the only guy in the industry who enjoys it.

I think I’ve found my next Magazine pitch, then.

PS: I never do the keynotes, so they’re all yours.

  • Dan Frakes:
    The 2014 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards have been announced. They’re as meaningless as ever?ignore them.

Ironically, I get so much email from CEA that I’m likely to miss things I’d actually read.

  • Glenn Fleishman:
    I wrote a fully interactive terminal screen-based hypertext browser in a C class in 1989 without no idea it would be interesting to others.

I had a clone of Twitter running on my startup website for subscribers in 1999. Likewise, didn’t see the general appeal.

  • Shawn King:
    TextExpander: “Enable access for assistive devices” before using…OK….HOW….cc ….

it’s been moved to the security and privacy settings.

  • Shawn King:
    Can you fix my Magic Mouse issues, oh Wise One? :)

try scaring the bejesus out of it with a CueCat?

  • Shawn King:
    DAMMIT! I knew I should have kept one of those….

  • Shawn King:
    Sitting in a CANADIAN pub watching HOCKEY and guy next to me is drinking RED WINE….WTF!? Must be an American…:)

it’s the blood of the losing team.

“Fuck the monuments, save the humans.”

Posted on

A modest proposal by Hamilton Nolan.

Here is just a short sampling of government services that have been shut down for the past two weeks due to the electoral squabbles of a small minority of lawmakers: services catering to blind people; the investigation of industrial chemical spills; most of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; assistance to Americorps staffers; research by the NOAA; fisheries enforcement patrols; most Environmental Protection Agency functions; campaign finance law enforcement; labor law enforcement; all of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness; WIC funding for poor women and children; and much, much more.

  • TJ Luoma:
    1) Delete Gmail account 2) Disable ALL email accounts 3) Add & Enable my old un-used iCloud email account 4) Add Gmail again. Works!

10.9 upgrade?

  • TJ Luoma:
    no this is on my iPhone 5s :-) It had a temporary gremlin, which seems to have moved on now.

  • Peter Cohen:
    OH GOD I JUST CLICKED A SPONSORED LINK ON A SUGGESTED POST ON FACEBOOK WHAT HAVE I DONE

For most of us, that promises our immortal soul to Facebook. You might be immune.

  • erika owens:
    Have any particularly awesome hackathon stories you’d like to share?

Wonderful, now the rest of us feel like lazybones for what *we* got done this weekend.