“I want liberation from the commercial Web’s two-decade old design flaws. I don’t care how much a company uses first person possessive pronouns on my behalf. They are not me, they do now know me, and I do not want them pretending to be me, or shoving their tentacles into my pockets, or what their …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
History of the term “Telephone Sanitizer”
Now, for a socially aspiring middle class family, it wasn’t quite the thing to have a truck parked in front of their house marked “Kensington W.C. Cleaning” or “Brompton Crapper Swabout,” broadcasting the messages: (a) we don’t have staff, and (b) our W.C. is dirty. So some enterprising toilet cleaner stencilled “Telephone Sanitizing” on the …
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Speak When You Have Something to Sell
“They are the un-Apple or un-Amazon, two companies who never say anything without offering something to buy.” – Dave Winer This is the most important and prescient thing I’ve read in quite a while. Speak When You Have Something to Sell. If memory serves – this point is why my favorite Evil Genius hasn’t published …
Fermenting: “GnomeMower” – Biére de Garde
After a three batches of beers with 6+ month fermentation timelines ( “Marley was Dead“, “Out Like a Lion” , “Sour Suburbanite” ) I wanted something with a slightly, faster turnaround. And – less, um, experimental. So, I pulled together this Biére de Garde Golden Strong Ale. Simple and straight-forward ingredient list. “GnomeMower” Bier de …
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Fermenting: “Sour Suburbanite” – A Bitter Lambic
“Sour Suburbanite” Lambic recipe 6# Northern Brewer Organic Light Malt Extract 1# Maris Otter 2# Special B 1# Belgian Light Candi Sugar @ 15 2oz. Galena @ 60min 2oz. Galena @ 30min 2oz. Norther Brewer @ 5min WYeast’s Lambic Blend Original Gravity: 1050 Update 22 May 20100 Bottled today. Final Gravity 1004. Pre-carbonation tasting notes: …
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Do All Android Devices Require a GMail Account?
Speedtesting Qwest’s Heavy Duty DSL
After a decade with Speakeasy, I switched to Qwest for my DSL. From what I understand, Qwest has fiber running to the my block with copper the house. Additionally as I understand – this switch from copper to fiber means Qwest is no longer compelled to make bandwidth available to resellers like Speakeasy. The copper …
Where’s My eBlotter?
– John Scalzi – Shmuel
AT&T Also Betting on WiFi?
I’ve got a long bet that WiFi will take over our telecom. Voice, video, everything. It’s cheap, it’s unlicensed, it’s nearly ubiquitious and both 802.11[a-z] and the wired broadband to those wireless points is getting faster and faster. For years now I’ve been a fan of T-Mobile’s HotSpot@Home program where calls originating within a WiFi …
Like Fail
Emphasis mine. “The Refresh Project accomplished everything a social media program is expected to: Over 80 million votes were registered; almost 3.5 million ‘likes’ on the Pepsi Facebook page; almost 60,000 Twitter followers. The only thing it failed to do was sell Pepsi.“ “It achieved all the false goals and failed to achieve the only …