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Pretty fascinating video about recent studies of what motivates workers in today higher-skilled information-based workforce. Many of the simplistic rules of management and motivation seem to bounce up against the reality of studies that show people cannot just be bought or led around by a horse collar. Worth a few minutes, if not for the [...]

Strange things were afoot at the Starbucks. Two men next to us were sitting at a Starbucks table in Times Square, not a cup of coffee or even a bagel in sight. They were surrounded by stacks of paper, boxes, and empty shopping bags piled high. Next to them were several carry-on suitcases stuffed to [...]

Yea, just another day in the life… Actually I was helping a friend by videotaping the launch of the AR Drone / iPhone helicopter project. We headed over to TST where they had a press conference with quite a few models and Hong Kong celebrities in tow. I spent most of my time behind the [...]

USB drives to me are kind of silly. I have been living in the cloud when it comes to data for a number of years now and regard USB keys as sort of a throwback to the era of ‘physical media’ when you had to burn something to a disk to transfer it from one [...]

You would think that a place like Hong Kong, which is only miles from the gadget factories in Shenzhen and benefiting greatly from a massive demand for consumer appliances and essentially no customs duties on imports, would have the latest and greatest devices from around the world easily available at the various Computer (grey) markets [...]

This is an iPhone lovers response to the HTC ad that got a Best Buy employee fired. Sums up a lot of what I feel when I hear some decidedly non-techies prattle on about development platforms and how it makes their phone so much better.

This is my new “my-fi” It’s about the height of say 8 credit cards stacked atop one another and not much bigger than an iPhone. You may have heard of them as many first adopter geeks are starting to use them. This is wifi internet access from anywhere on the Earth, basically. The mifi devices [...]

Safari has added a new feature in the Version 5.0 release called “Extensions”. If you have Safari running version 5 (relatively smoothly, as there have been more than a few problems) you might want to take a look at some of the new extensions you can add: http://mac.appstorm.net/ By far one of the most exciting [...]

Normally, it doesn’t take much to get me to watch pretty much anything on the net involving Swedish women. So things were a bit stretched last night when I found out this was a Swedish woman who was now off the market as she was getting married, but pretty much everything else on TV was [...]

HBO Documentary Films has made available a moving documentary about Neda Agha-Soltan, the young women taken by a sniper’s bullet in the protests last year.  You can watch the film (broken into 10 minute segments) for free.

(scroll down for updates) 10:00 am — I was number 8 in the store and about number 1 to come out.  I then spent about 5 minutes taunting others in line who didn’t have an iPad just yet and then drove home at a relatively reasonable rate of speed to plug in the new new [...]

I’m here waiting for my new DOCIS3.0 modem to arrive from the Comcast man (1.5 hours into my 3 hour install window). So in preparation I decided to do one last ‘normal’ cable modem test before the new one comes in. Actually the speeds today are not that bad. I guess everyone is off at [...]

Dan Woolley was trapped under the rubble of the Haiti earthquake without much information about what to do.  He was in pain, but not sure of his overall situation.  He needed help, and believe it or not, it was just a finger slide away. His iPhone. Woolley used his iPhone as a flashlight (a totally [...]

I have five more google wave invites if anyone wants one. You aren’t missing much though…