November 2011
5 posts
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How Kindle Fire Will Beat iPad
We decided to download a movie for the boys to watch on our 6-hour drive tomorrow. Reva said she thought the boys would both enjoy “Cars 2.” She checked iTunes while I checked Amazon.
iTunes: $4.99 for a 24-hour rental.
Amazon Instant Video: $1.99 for a 48-hour rental.
If you were to rent, say, a movie a week, you’d save over $150/year on Amazon.
For all the bad-mouthing the...
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Reality at 9 and a half
Isaac listens to the radio in his room. Plain old FM on a boom-box we bought when he was still in a crib. I love that likes it for its own sake.
Last night he heard Ronnie Dunn’s Cost of Living. He called me in (“come quick, Dad”) because he guessed it was John Mellencamp and he wanted to know if he was right. (Good guess: similar vocal style, instrumentation, and content. If...
Luck for president?
GOP voters start the 3rd-stringers, angle for #1 draft pick next year. Gingrich in 1st. @TPM ^@erickleefeld #gopfail
"Why base reviews around specs when specs don’t...
MG Siegler (@parislemon) has a great article on TC today called “The Death of the Spec,” but the two @dcurtis tweets he quoted pretty much say it all:
Electronics should always be reviewed from the user experience point of view, not the technology point of view… yet no one does that.
The section headings for a Kindle Fire review should not be “battery, internals, screen;”...
October 2011
1 post
nginx + uwsgi + bottle.py
The bottle documentation doesn’t say so, but the advice they give for running bottle with Apache and WSGI applies — and is just as important — with nginx and uWSGI:
import bottle
# ... build or import your bottle application here ...
# Do NOT use bottle.run() with mod_wsgi
application = bottle.default_app()
… except that’s not quite right either. I finally...
September 2009
2 posts
my music life: audio, reviews, cheesy bio, etc. →
I’ve got three studio tracks posted at Broadjam: “Open Wide” with full Nashville studio band, and the acoustic takes of “This Heart” and “Old Room Key” from This Year’s Demo (the latter featuring the beautiful Colleen McFarland on vocals and guitar/engineer zen master Tim Craven on lead guitar).
November 2007
2 posts
my once-and-future homepage →
This link should lead you right back here.