Image via Wikipedia Dave Zatz has a thought-provoking piece up asking whether TiVo has lost its way. The impetus for his post is a recent NY Times article about recent TiVo developments extending advertising throughout its UI, and the recognition that the core of TiVo’s innovation hasn’t changed much since it first launched in 1999.…

This is really cool: go to the Google Latitude badge maker and create a badge that you can add to your blog. If you use Latitude, you can show off where you’re located. The end result: (Used a screenshot so those of you looking in a feed reader will see it.) Works on all blog…

I’m a big fan of Stephen King’s The Stand – part sci-fi, part horror, mostly a wonderfully engaging view of what happens to a few survivors of a man-made apocalypse. I’ve read the book at least four or five times – never for the story itself, but to be immersed in a world of characters…

Image via Wikipedia Mike Masnick at TechDirt has repeatedly identified cases where the difficulty of obtaining rights to music played in TV shows is either holding up or killing attempts to reissue those shows on DVD. WKRP in Cincinnati is probably the best-known example, but more recently this meant that the claimed “complete” release of…

http://www.youtube.com/get_player … you might think I actually knew what I was doing. Actually played a lot better than I thought I would, which made it a lot more fun. In all, we played 4 rounds of golf, playing the Fazio course, Arthur Hills course, Robber’s Row course, and Oyster Reef. Needless to say, these courses…

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Last summer, my brother and I told our Dad that we’d take him golfing for his 60th birthday. The weekend in which we actually deliver on that promise is upon us… and the reality that I will be soon defiling courses of incredible beauty is finally setting in. To…

Posting to my blog via SMS is rather cool.

Both boys had birthdays last month (nine and seven!), and they set their sights on the new Nintendo DSi. That was a bit pricey, so we gave the boys a chance to earn some money towards their gift through extra chores. When the DSi finally came out a month after their birthdays, we picked up…

All I need to do is push “1”, and serious money awaits: https://clients4.google.com/voice/embed/embedPlayer

Pulitzer-prize winning historian Bernard Bailyn: Twitter is a one-man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive, and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be more detailed, serious and ‘high-brow’ than is ever possible in a newspaper or in most kinds of periodicals. At the…