Random Articles

• Twin Cities Cool. Not Just Cause It’s Autumn When we moved from Chicago almost 5 years ago, I got a lot of snickers and jeers from my co-workers. Completely understandable given that Chicago sees itself as the second city and all the reports of Mayor Daley trying to make it into NY without the bad parts. It’s the quality of life that separates the
• Tell Me When It’s Over “In my experience, until the feature is done, it’s quite difficult to predict when it will be done…” - Johanna Rothman
• When Murphy Decides You Need to Use Windows Just last week, I was taking with someone about Parallels Desktop. Cavalierly, I stated how I grabbed a trial key - but then realized I had no need to use for Windows. Then just days later, I needed to see what a process looked like on Windows. Funny, Murphy, real funny. Option 1. The Mac mini home
• Xcel Energy started including WindSource… Xcel Energy started including WindSource charges as a line item on their monthly billing statements. We buy all of our energy through that program and I’ve been curious to see how much it actually adds to our bill. This month: $12. Such a small amount to support renewable energy programs. Elsewhere: Dan Grigsby did the same
• Charging for the Silver Lining “Skydeck is now focusing on building features that it can charge for, instead of free services that attract users but not revenue.” - Brad Stone, New York Times Thank [your-preferred-deity-here]. You know I have a pet peeve with ‘businesses’ where the metric of success doesn’t start with a $. Perhaps Web 2.0 will end the same way