Tech Chords

So you're fresh out of college with a degree in computer science. As you gleefully wait for that one phone call, you discover the computer isn't just what you were taught it'd be. It has metamorphosed into the pervasive social web. Standalone apps have made way for those that reside on the cloud. Data isn't centralized ...

The developers of OpenOffice have united under the banner of the Document Foundation to fork one of the crown jewels of open source software. An OpenOffice fork was imminent, ever since Oracle laid its hands on Sun. But the long-term advantages aren't worth the short-term confusion this project will create for the end user. For one, ...

Back in 2008 there was a lot of noise and excitement around the contextual web. Two years later, we aren't where we should have been, partly because the idea of the contextual web was to limit the time we spent on a search engine, but we've come quite far, despite Mozilla abandoning Ubiquity, and Google dragging ...

This is an email I just wrote to Facebook. Dear Facebook, Thank you for hosting the worlds biggest party and inviting everyone I know. They are all here. From people I took the school bus with, to people that took me places. I might have never met all of them IRL, but we have popped into ...

I work with words. And thanks to the proliferation of text box boasting websites, I'll continue to enjoy the job security my peers can only dream of. Writing needs more than an organ of manipulation beating down on a keyboard. Knowledge of the semantics of a language doesn't make a great piece. There's more to it ...