Monthly Archives: September 2008

Shuffling Off To Buffalo

I just got home after a boring day of work.  The high point was my commute which involved the PATH train, the R train and the B train.  Sounds bad.  But it wasn’t because of the shuffle feature on my Zune.  Back in the early days of the iPod, people rediscovered their old music through [...]

Hearts or Stars?

I’m less than a day into my first day off the Cupertino junk and am using the Redmond Brick.  One of the big changes is from stars to hearts for rating songs.  Granted, Microsoft didn’t invent a heart system.  Last.fm and Pandora and Slacker all use it.  But, because Apple “thinks different”, they use stars [...]

Pink Camouflage (Pt. 1 of 2)

This is part 1 of a review of the Zune 120GB.   Someone in Redmond has balls the size of watermelons.  You have to have giant freakin’ balls to walk into a boardroom and say “Here’s what we’re going to do to become competitive in the PMP market.  Two words:  Pink Camouflage.”  I got my [...]

iPod classic Is A Defective Dud

I just got off the phone with Apple Care.  The reason – I need a box to send Girlie’s iPod classic in for a replacement.  Last night, I came home and Girlie – distraught – told me that her iPod stopped charging.  She was quick and adamant to point out that she had taken great [...]

Review: This BoltBus Review Was Uploaded From I-95

The Concept: Cheap, reliable bus service with WiFi access en route The Ad Copy: We’ve done some things to make the trip more enjoyable. More legroom – we’ve taken a standard coach configuration and removed seats. This adds about three extra inches of legroom per seat. Internet – our buses are equipped with wi-fi hot [...]