Morning Sarode Concert with Vikash Maharaj. Sangati Center. San Francisco.
—22 August 2010 ∞ | View Comments
I want to re-post everything here. But that would just be rude – Pop culture passion with a leaning toward China: this is quality (compelling, interesting and insightful) linkage. Quality time.
—21 August 2010 ∞ | View Comments
The former owner of San Francisco’s House of Shields — bar and host dvenue to many a fledgling local band — is
set to open a bar in Oakland’s Uptown area. And she’s not the only one considering a move to the Bay Area’s capitol of potential. From the East Bay Express.
—19 August 2010 ∞ | View Comments
A former ad executive takes the opprtunity to edit a bio piece on himself. As Chris Tacy says in a tweet earlier today…
A GREAT illustration of how “publishing” is failing to see the new reality. The control relationship has changed.
I suppose this is what it would look like if the author and the subject, sharing editing roles, cowrote this piece using Google Docs.
—9 August 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Damn!
Well there it is. A respected journal has confirmed what has been a contested issue regarding the iPhone 4′s antenna. Consumer Reports concurs with many iPhone 4 owners that the iPhone 4 is especially sensitive to the way in which it is held by the user and has confirmed a dramatic loss of reception when the antenna bridge on the left side of the phone is covered by the user’s hand. The result? Dropped calls and greatly reduced bandwidth.
I’ll say it again. Damn!
My fiancé and myself both have placed ourselves on our local Apple Store’s priority list for the next batch of new iPhones. Now, I’m thinking we were too hasty.
Currently I think the plan should be to wait and see what sort of response Apple decides to put out. It is going to be difficult and I would think unwise for them to ignore the findings of a respected consumer journal such as Consumer Reports and to continue to ignore that there is a problem or to simply write it off as (oops!) a legacy and heretofore undiscovered software glitch. If we don’t hear any official response from Apple that explicitly addresses the issue in a
proactive way and with a solution that is more than just “don’t hold it that way” or “put a case on it” I am of the mind to take our names off the list and monitor the situation until the problem is truly fixed in whatever fashion Apple thinks is most benificial to it’s image — fix it quietly or in a public way but fix it.
If CR is right, no longer is this iPhone users’ or AT&T’s problem.
You’re move, Apple.
—12 July 2010 ∞ | View Comments
John Gruber has posted his review of his iPhone 4 on Daring Fireball (one of my “Happy Places”).
—29 June 2010 ∞ | View Comments
A House by the Park is a “a first-hand chronology of the design, planning, and construction of a modern home in Seattle.”
The house itself is already finished – who knows weather there will be more posts added to the blog – but as a record of the experience of building a custom designed home A House by the Park has great potential utility for anyone out there about to embark on a similar architectural journey. A near perfect use-case for the blog “form” (if you will).
—29 June 2010 ∞ | View Comments
David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart is a blog that assails our belief that we are in control of our motivations, thoughts and feelings. But it’s not depressing. No, really.
—28 June 2010 ∞ | View Comments
