It’s absolutely asinine to hold a major tradeshow one week after New Years. It seems like the best time to show off the next year’s upcoming consumer electronics gear would be in July or August, during the lead-up to the next holiday season, rather than two weeks following the close of the previous one.
I’m [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Why is CES in January?
14Dec06Worklog
13Dec06There’s a healthy dose of irony inherent in posting your daily work log on a blog, but I’m going to give it a try and see what happens. Here’s the stuff I need to get done today, we’re three days from our final deadline for the February issue:
Edit the news section
Edit straggling copy
Assemble the [...]
95 Theses of Geek Activism
13Dec06The first time the 95 theses made the rounds, the site was down when I tried to check it out. I stumbled upon it again today, and was impressed with many of the thoughts. The author is pretty focused on Linux and media-related issues, but there’s still a lot of good general geek advice. [...]
UniveRSS
12Dec06
The UniveRSS RSS reader displays feeds on cubes, floating in space. The closer a cube is to you, the more recently it was updated, which is very cool. Click the cube to zoom in and see a list of stories, click on a story to read it.
It’s not a particularly useful app, but it’s [...]
third week m-m-megapost!
08Dec06 Thus ends the third week of production for the February 2007 issue of Maximum PC. Since we publish 13 issues a year, that means we have to ship an issue every 4 weeks; the presses wait for no holidays, vacations, or trade shows.
Warning: This is a rambling, stupid-long, LiveJournal-esque, over-hypenated post. I apologize in [...]
pets
05Dec06When I saw this, I really wasn’t sure whether I should laugh or cry. She loves to sit on the subwoofer between my feet when I’m using the PC. I took this when I heard a funny ripping noise. That was the veneer coming off of the sub.
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