And He Blogs

It is fun to listen to William Nack. He is a great sports storyteller. UMW has had the great pleasure of hosting him at least a couple of times for our Great Lives Series. A few days before Steinbrenner’s death I was editing one of the talks that Nack gave in 2008 on Babe Ruth. [...]

Tags: greatlives, sports

I feel lately like Apple is the genius younger brother in the computer world. You know, the one who doesn’t get blamed for bad things that happen, because he is so smart, even brilliant, and innocent. He’s always got a plausible excuse for why something bad happened. Then people pat him on the head and [...]

Tags: apple, iphone, Mobile

I started the morning with an article in my reader that quoted Prince saying “The Internet is completely over.” The context was the distribution of music. The eccentric pop star continued: “I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it, and [...]

I’m back in the DTLT offices this Monday morning and the jet-lag is still wearing off from my trip to Disneyland, California for the 2010 NMC Summer Conference. I still find air travel surreal. California is not too different from Virginia that it is unrecognizable, but certainly Disneyland IS quite different, and I find myself [...]

Tags: nmc2010

Immediacy. This is the age we live in. I’ve got to have it now, especially information. Apple released its iPad yesterday. People couldn’t wait to find out what it was. People kid me about being an Apple fanboy. I don’t fret about that much. I’m a technology geek. I like and want to find out [...]

July 2004 – First blog set up – awrush.com (now a legal search consultant website) at bloghosts.com (no longer hosting blogs). August 2, 2004 – First official post. I mention that our new hosting service is like being a kid in the candy room at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. The rest of August I’m learning [...]

Tags: bluehost, web20, webhosting

This tale is brought to you by Bluehost, or rather the lack thereof. My account was down yesterday for about 12 hours. I have no illusions that anybody even noticed, but for me it was frustrating because I had a post brewing and I couldn’t write it. Now why couldn’t I write it and post [...]

Tags: bluehost, tweetdeck, twitter, webhosting

Word is getting around that YouTube is in HD and some videos have the “Watch in HD” link allowing viewers to see the Hi Def version. No official word from Google/YouTube yet. Maybe they don’t want a bandwidth surge? Who knows. Anyway, using footage that I shot from the beginning of the semester, here is [...]

Fellow Virginian and IT person David Carter-Tod wrote a post that was spot-on about setting a tone for customer service at a Comcast office. It’s the kind of post that maybe we all imagine writing while we’re standing in line thinking about how things work, or don’t. Well, as you can see, David wrote, and [...]

So we’re nine days on in the era of Edupunk, and it appears things are perhaps calming down, but not before some rather intense discussions, conversations and kicking over some garbage cans. Let’s see there’s Jim’s original post, the comments, the definition, the critique, the defense, the “narcissism”, the Wikipedia article, the other article (and [...]