A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
22 June 2009
Had a great father’s day, got some cool photo tools, some books that look great, and a couple of games since I have played Left4Dead and Fallout3 to death. Here’s some stuff I didn’t get and probably for good reason.
Physical Stuff:
* Faux fountains via Scott Loftesness. Cool looking and an inspiration for Halloween. * IP PBX tips for home. I was all excited about this several years ago but increasingly not so…having resident phone technology seems so backwards * Projects Watches wristwatches. Cool looking but increasingly I have given up on wristwatches. * Television emulator. I don’t know, I think the dogs would prefer to watch real TV. * Olympus PEN. Having just hauled the Canon up and down a mountain Sunday morning, the idea of a smaller form factor camera with great lenses is appealing. * Super Duper Denon pre-amp. Just can’t face all the cabling problems tho of disconnecting my current and connecting in a new.
Virtual Stuff: * Mint.com. Like the idea of automated analysis of my financials, but I am just not going to give another party access to all my financial credentials. They should license these tools to financial service firms for use on their own websites. * Cisco Network Magic. Nice review. Congrats to the former Pure Networks team. * Filemaker Bento iPhone app. I regularly get sucked into thinking I need a database and this app is sucking me in again. I know tho I will enter 7 records and abandon the damn thing so I am holding off.