Technology Archive

Thoughts on computers, blogs and social networks.

• The Great Tumblr Hack

  Tumblr, the blogging platform of choice for wanna-be hipsters, has a closed database. Meaning, when (and if) you want to leave the service, you cannot take your content with you (at least not easily). Where there is a demand, a person (or persons) will undoubtedly eventually serve that demand. In comes the great Tumblr hack [...]

• GMail

  GMail was down for roughly an hour yesterday — which is like forever in internet speed and time. Google, the super-evil company that runs the service, eventually apologized. But that did give me an excuse to play off the ordeal with my Facebook status… Jeffrey needs to learn to cope without gmail. Jeffrey is learning [...]

• Daily Show Embeds Suck

  I do not watch the Daily Show. I used to, and every now and then, I will watch a few minutes, but the show is tailored to younger people, and the way the news is portrayed is frustrating to me, mainly because I read and watch so much news as it is. I do not [...]

• Tumblr Redux

  Tumblr has made a series of “improvements” to its blogging system in the last few months. I put the term improvements in quotes because improvements is relative. The popular blogging tool has introduced new permalink URLs and tags. The reason I’m poking fun at their expense is that Tumblr was supposed to be for people [...]

• The Tumblr Ruse

  I have fooled around with Tumblr. It is alright. I would grade it as “so-so.” It is not a god-send. It is not other-worldly. It is a blogging platform. Er, it is a microblogging platform. It is a mix of Blogger and Twitter. It is not the second coming. These are truths. Tumblr is a [...]

• When Nanotechnology Calls, You Answer

  Random email of the week, maybe year (not caught by my spam filter)… Just this April, a large cross-departmental group of Stanford faculty was awarded a multi-million dollar grant to take up such challenges and develop new devices and technology for use in 3-D ICs. Chidsey, for instance, is one of the researchers involved in [...]

• YouTube Purge

  News of the Great YouTube Purge of 2006 is abound this morning, and I offer my immediate thoughts… I understand how people are instantly (possibly momentarily) upset over this, but if I owned the content, I wouldn’t want it passing all over the site either. In my opinion, the reason is is that the owner [...]

• So, This flickr Thing…

  I have recently started a flickr thing (I am not sure what to call it, maybe “photostream;” yes, that’s the word). It is obvious that a lot of people use flickr, and likewise, so do a lot of bloggers, and for good reason: it is extremely easy (maybe too easy) to post photos from the [...]

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