Windows 7 is pretty stable a week into it…here’s how I got there…
I did my upgrade last week from that abysmal Vista 64 to Windows 7 64. First I’d like to recount how long it took. For that, I will show you my tweets from last Friday night/Saturday morning.  Let me say that I started the upgrade at about 10:30 PM on Friday night: @alexbarnett was [...]

4A’s analysis of a marketing failure: Microsoft Zune
So I wrote this paper for my marketing management class.  Since this is my first marketing class, you’ll forgive my newbie look at a product.  But I thought it was a fun paper to write, so I’m sharing it.   Normally marketing talks about the 4P’s, our class has been studying the downstream affects of [...]

Apple Time Capsule
So as I tweeted tonight, I received my 1TB Apple Time Capsule today and installed it to replace my aging Linksys router and to capture my dream of having a network disk mounted that all my machines could use (and maybe do some backups).  The real reason is that I need to back up all [...]

Famous and Self-Abuse…
I’m reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft on my Kindle.  I thought it appropriate since I’m trying to be a writer, why not get advice from arguably the most successful fiction writer of the last 30 years.   Now mind you I didn’t say the best, I just said most successful. [...]

Google Wave…WHY?
OK so I got my precious invitation to Google Wave and I went in, and started experimenting.  There’s some cool stuff in there.  It seems like a mashup of Friendfeed, Utterli and IM, with a sort of email feel to it. My best description of what it feels like to use it is, if you ever [...]