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iPhone areas for improvement

I’ve been an iPhone owner for a few weeks now. As many of you may know, I was opposed to getting an iPhone for a while but it’s the only non-BlackBerry smart phone that my company will officially support so it was my best option.
In general, I think the iPhone is a great device but [...]

Posted 29 November 2009 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

my mac is officially useless

I bought a first generation 12″ aluminum PowerBook in January 2003 as soon as it came out. At the time, Apple was not the ubiquitous laptop of anyone who considered themselves at least minimally cool. The large majority of people, even students, still had Windows-based machines. And for good reason — prior to OS X, [...]

Posted 30 August 2009 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Twitter as we know it will die, sooner than you think

I have never been a big fan of Twitter. Ok, go ahead — tell me that I “just don’t get it”. I just don’t see a future for Twitter. If you take a step back, Twitter is nothing more than a syndication format designed around SMS. It’s a medium for exchanging 140 character length strings. [...]

Posted 09 August 2009 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Facebook domination

I don’t think I have a lot of people reading my blog anymore, so if you are reading this, thanks for sticking with it. :)
One of the major reasons why I don’t blog anymore is because Facebook has become the outlet for my thoughts and I don’t see this changing. I currently have my blog [...]

Posted 01 April 2009 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

The consequences of switching from Time Warner to Verizon

I’ve been fed up with my Time Warner cable internet service lately. During the past three weeks, my internet connectivity has been extremely flaky. It would go down about every other day and I also experienced random slowdowns where my bandwidth would come down to less than 1 mbps (I’m supposed to be getting 10 [...]

Posted 21 January 2009 † Peter § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °