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I’ve been Scobleized in real-life!

8January2007GeekTieGuy2 CommentsPersonal

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. After the Bill Gates keynote, where the HP TouchSmart PC was unveiled officially in a video clip, an actual unit appeared in the suite, seemingly out of nowhere. I was flabbergasted. When I first saw it, I blurted across the room to Karsten Januszewski “Hey, there’s one of

My first trip to CES and Las Vegas

7January2007GeekTieGuyPersonal

I’m sitting here at the Seagate / PodTech / AMD bloghaus after having run around all day setting up printer drivers and other good stuff at our booths. I tried getting into the Bill Gates keynote, but didn’t make it. What a waste of $20 on cab fare. Robert Scoble even told me before I

Vista – the DRM feeding frenzy?

1January2007GeekTieGuyOpinion, Personal

Robert X. Cringely says that what Microsoft is doing with the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology in Vista is help the media companies reselling us stuff we already have. He talks about how the media companies have been successful at this once already: when we bought CDs to replace our vinyl records, and when we

A Voluntary Simplicity manifesto

1January2007GeekTieGuy3 CommentsEnvironment, Personal, Sustainability

Inspired by the manifestos at gapingvoid.com, here’s my Voluntary Simplicity manifesto: —————— The free market economy of boundless growth is unsustainable, since we live on a planet with finite resources. Future generations have just as much a right to enjoy life as the current generation. Future generations have just as much a right to enjoy