I wanted to get everyone’s opinion of QR Codes. I’ve been tumbling this in my head for the last week or two, and wanted to try to get some more feedback. A QR Code is a “two dimensional” barcode. While they have other uses, the most popular is to easily redirect someone to a web [...]

Testing out a new blogging app. Cool!

Since getting my iPad, I’ve been driving towards using eBooks for my book consumption. It’s nice just to grab once thing. I could write a whole post about my experiences with different eBook systems, and I may at some point. A couple months ago, I got a book from the new Google Books service. While [...]

I know many of you are “Vox Refugees,” as the folder in my RSS reader is titled. What started as a great blogging site in 2006 slowly died from neglect, until the plug was ultimately pulled last year. A few months prior, I wrote Vox support, to ask if it was still being maintained. I [...]

Author Neil Gaiman on piracy and its impacts on his sales. Basically: it’s just lending books, and a net gain for him. Via Boing Boing.

You may have heard that Gawker Media has a password file hacked. Users who created accounts may have had their passwords exposed. Slate has a widget for checking if your account was impacted. This includes: Lifehacker io9 Gizmodo …and a few others (check my first link for a full list–these are sites I’ve been known [...]

I dare say many of the folks reading my blog are what I have termed in my RSS reader as “Vox Refugees.” We all received notice about a month ago that Six Apart decided to discontinue their Vox service. Yesterday, September 30, was its final day. When it came out in 2006, I think Vox [...]

“Environmental analysis can be an endless balancing of this versus that. Do you care more about conserving water or avoiding toxic chemical usage? Minimizing carbon dioxide emissions or radioactive nuclear waste? But today, the Lantern has good news: There will be no Sophie’s choice when it comes to e-books. As long as you consume a [...]

A mini-project I’m working on is documenting publicly-accessable WiFi sites in downtown Cincinnati. This includes pay sites, free sites, and “free to customers” sites. The map is below. Legend: Green — LilyPad USA Yellow — Other Free, Open Blue — Free to Customers Purple — Pay Site with Free Options for Customers* Pink — Free [...]

I like to say I was the last of the first people to get on the Internet. I got on in the last couple of years before the web browser came about. In this world, everything was text. While the content wasn’t as rich as it is today, it had a depth to it. You [...]