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Re: SNOW UPDATE: Hawaii….

Ole Eichhorn — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:24:32 -0000

did not realize Al Gore was visiting Hawaii

Re: THE GREAT DEBATE: Red or white wine with your Thanksgiving turkey?

Ole Eichhorn — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:35:59 -0000

Pinot Noir

Re: I quit the techÂ industry

Ole Eichhorn — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:57:07 -0000

I found myself feeling much the same way at one point (I *think* I'm a lot older) and what worked for me was working on [software for] cancer diagnostics, which was technically hard and felt important. That need to work on stuff that matters is strong within all of us. Anyways sounds like you're making a great change of course and good luck!

Re: What Apple Music says about how Apple views musicians

Ole Eichhorn — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:54:13 -0000

Could not agree more, well said!

I am a developer, and I liked all the OS X and IOS stuff, and am pumped that Swift is open source. But I could not understand why WWDC was chosen to announce a music service. At all.

Totally agree about artists getting paid. That's the most important problem in music today and Apple did not saying anything about it.

Re: Bloggers who made a difference

Ole Eichhorn — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:07:20 -0000

In no particular order, Jason Kottke, Glenn Reynolds, Cory Doctorow, Paul Graham, John Gruber, Seth Godin, second the nomination of Joel Spolsky, Jamie Zawinski, Eric S Raymond, Scott ("Dilbert") Adams, Randall ("xkcd") Munroe, Adam Curry, Robert Scoble, ... and Dave Winer :)

Re: iPhone 6 and 6 Plus finally allow for simultaneous voice and data on Verizon

Ole Eichhorn — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:39:01 -0000

This is why Skype is so great. You can call with your Verizon phone using a data connection, and still use your GPS, surf the web, listen to Pandora, or whatever... and you don't even need a new phone :)

Re: 2ality: Four things that Apple should add to iOS

Ole Eichhorn — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:38:21 -0000

As a happy Palm Pre user, I agree iOS notifications are crummy. Now that they've implemented asynchronous notifications this is possibly the worst thing about iOS at the moment. But knowing Apple, they'll fix it.

Re: 2ality: Do tablets make sense, yet?

Ole Eichhorn — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:35:58 -0000

Have you tried the Apple wireless keyboard? It's pretty small. I've been wondering whether that keyboard together with an iPad isn't a decent replacement for a small laptop, for many people.

Re: The “like, er, lie” economy

Ole Eichhorn — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:53:13 -0000

Great point Robert. This is why the eBay reputation system works, you can only earn "points" in the real world, doing what you really do. And this is why OpenTable works too, you can only rate restaurants at which you actually ate.

Re: Hotel+WiFi+Should+Be+a+Right%2C+Not+a%26nbsp%3BLuxury

Ole Eichhorn — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:53:16 -0000

WiFi? Really? Get a Sprint EVDO card and you'll be always on anywhere you go. You'll pay about $50/month but it will be worth it.

Re: Trading one centralized net for another? (Scripting News)

Ole Eichhorn — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:21:42 -0000

The key to DNS is that it isn't centralized. The TLD information is maintained on thirteen "root" servers, but there is a huge network of servers which cache this information, so most of the time the root servers are not needed. They could all go down, and the cache network would still exist. Below the TLD level (.com, .net, etc) each domain has its own DNS server. So the fact that scripting.com is hosted on a particular DNS server is known at the top level, but the definition of each host in the scripting.com domain is maintained on that domain's server. Often we delegate this to our ISP or another provider (e.g. I use GoDaddy to host DNS for all my sites), but in principle the architecture is distributed. This is a pretty good design and would be well worth emulating.

Re: The neat thing about blogging design…

Ole Eichhorn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:44:15 -0000

I like this one :) Simple is good, and green and black are interesting!

Re: My design is being redone, expect weird stuff in meantime

Ole Eichhorn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:27:45 -0000

While you're at it, you should change the default Wordpress logo in your feed.

Re: Daily Data

Ole Eichhorn — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:01:54 -0000

I have to disagree with this... giving board members "daily data" encourages them to micromanage the business. Young CEOs sometimes make the mistake of thinking they "work for" the board (and inexperienced board members make the same mistake). Truly a CEO needs "daily data" to run his business, but he should roll it up into "monthly data" for progress reporting to his board.

Boards are great for advice, big picture discussions, introductions to relevant contacts, and strategy. Get them involved in day to day operations of a small company and bad things happen.

Re: Entering Data

Ole Eichhorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:10:06 -0000

I've got the #1 cool way to lose weight. I have no idea if it will work for you, but it worked for me. Go to sleep earlier. Really really. Good luck.

Ole

Re: What made the Mac different (Scripting News)

Ole Eichhorn — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:58:48 -0000

The mouse! In those days a few dedicated word processors had pointing devices, but no PCs did.

Another - built in sound. Most PCs could only beep unless you added extra hardware.

Re: How blogging was born (Scripting News)

Ole Eichhorn — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:42:31 -0000

No comment :)

Re: R.I.P. Enterprise RSS

Ole Eichhorn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:22:43 -0000

I think you're right that RSS is under-utilized within businesses, and so many people who could benefit from getting news pushed to them this way don't.

However looking only at commercial readers might not tell the whole story. In my company a lot of people use SharpReader, which is a powerful desktop feedreader, and which is free...

Re: Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap.

Ole Eichhorn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:14:57 -0000

Actually they mentioned Exchange support, so they have corporate email covered. RIM is not safe from the Pre, I actually think Palm will take more share from RIM than Apple.

Re: Let’s Get Practical

Ole Eichhorn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:58 -0000

I thought slide 3 was the most valuable slide in the Sequoia deck :) Slide 56 was good, too.

Re: Reconsidering Using an iBrick

Ole Eichhorn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:55:53 -0000

Not to take anything from iPhone - at all - but I love my Centro. It is smaller, lighter, faster, and an open platform. Best of all it has an actual keyboard.

Re: TechFuga makes it clear TechMeme is not innovating

Ole Eichhorn — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:18:23 -0000

My own view is that TechMeme is fine, they are providing a useful service. At any point in time there's always a site which is the "Daypop" of the time, and right now that is TechMeme. I guess they have to worry about what might be better, but Digg and Reddit certainly aren't as useful as TechMeme right now...

Re: Give Your Sales People All the Knives

Ole Eichhorn — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:02:56 -0000

What’s the point of a post that says “give your salepeople all the knives” if nobody knows what you mean? Is this an inside joke, or an attempt to be clever? (Or am I the only one who doesn’t know what this means? certainly wouldn't be the first time :)

Re: Apple+Goes+McCain+On+Microsoft+With+Mocking+Attack%26nbsp%3BAds

Ole Eichhorn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:13:39 -0000

Not everyone reading this blog would agree with using McCain as a verb in this way; I certainly don't. Maybe stick to Technology and leave politics out of it...

Re: Candidate Supporters’ Use of Gadgets as Symbols Reveal Power of Brands

Ole Eichhorn — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:36:54 -0000

Ha ha ha. Why do you media journalists assume we're all in on the same joke? Some of your readers - gasp! - are conservative republicans. Really. And some of them - gasp! - might not think McCain is an idiot. Perhaps a little experience might actually - gasp! - be useful.