I went to Houston for the last few days to tie up some loose ends and help out my last company a bit. Houston is in itself a world apart from Chicago, which I happily call home. And in the distance between them seems to be feelings about hair. Or perhaps I really just need a haircut.
I recently left my cushy corporate job of five years. It was a very difficult decision to make, and sudden, but in the end, it was a long time coming. And in the wake of my departure, I've been asked by people of varying levels of trust my reason for leaving. Here's what's I've found.
I've been using my UP by Jawbone for just over a month now, and have been hesitant to write any sort of review until I had so much time to really use it. In short: despite some problems, I love it.
I recently left AT&T for Sprint, and despite being generally happy with all things Sprint, the slow data connection was enough to make me consider going back.
After a failed attempt at an upgrade, a restore from backup, and months of hoping the problem would just go away, I decided to tackle an upgrade from Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (10.6.6) to OS X Lion Server (10.7). Here's what I learned.
For years I've taken extra steps to satisfy my somewhat unusual requirements, and with a little bit of news I confirmed with Sprint earlier today, everything is at last made simple.
There are three kinds of people out there: people who backup their system regularly, people who make multiple backups of their system regularly, and people who don't really understand what a backup is.
There were a few problems when upgrading my server to OS X Lion Server, and in the spirit of full disclosure, here are the problems we encountered.
Installing anything on a remote server can be risky business, especially if a reboot is required. But installing an OS? Well, you'd have to be crazy. Or just stupid enough to make the mistake and press go.
Since I left China and stopped paying for 3G service on my first generation iPad, the clock has been slowing moving farther and farther away from the real time. A quick fix for a problem that shouldn't be there.
A short video I put together entirely on my iPhone 4, documenting the commute that has made me both frustrated, fascinated, and overjoyed with living in China. This segment is the fifteen minute bike ride to the bus stop, with a stop for breakfast along the way.
At work, I often joke with my colleagues about the "IT curse": when there's a really bizarre problem with something technological, and as soon as an IT guy comes to check it out, the problem vanishes, like a ghost. Unfortunately for the common IT guy, this is far from what I would call the IT curse.
I've been a proud and happy user of Google Voice now since I first received an invitation only shortly after it was available, but the iPhone app has been tempting my friends and me away from the service. Here's a quick (half) fix.
My friend Benjamin and I had a very interesting talk yesterday about the subtle — and not so subtle — differences between journalism and blogging.
Unless you're part of Google's "Opt-out", you probably spend a bunch of time on the internet, and thus give your private information to a handful of websites. The battle of internet security is, for many, constantly finding the balance between convenience and security/privacy — you could have this website store your credit card information for your next visit, but do you want to risk that? Browsing the web safely can be both — but you need to know what you're up against, and how to protect yourself.