Monthly Archive: August 2010

Aug
19

I’m Bored with Starcraft 2

I actually knew that I’d become bored with Starcraft 2 in fairly short order, but I bought it anyway. You see, I’m an eternal optimist. I’d read most of the previews who said it was a much more polished version of the original, with only a few new features. But it would still be a …

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Aug
06

So You Want to Podcast?

I put out a Twitter plus Facebook post, telling the world I was looking for a podcast partner. I received quite a few responses, which made me realize that I need to be more specific about what I want to cover in a podcast and the kind of person I’d want to share a Skype …

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Aug
05

Tech Media and Missed Opportunities

Microsoft. Apple. Google. Three companies staring at each other over the barrel of a gun. Sounds a little like a Tarantino movie, eh? Okay, so that’s a little hyperbolic. Still, these three companies compete against each other in more than one market. Each is more successful than the other in some key niche. Despite their …

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Aug
03

Geek is a State of Mind

I’ve written boatloads of articles over the years about PC tech, building PCs, hardware specs, benchmarks and other topics that PC enthusiasts (read: PC geeks) care about. Geeks obsess over details. How many shader cores? What’s the latency? Bandwidth between interconnects. And so it goes. I’m also a fairly serious amateur photographer. I obsess over …

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Aug
02

Stupid Networking Tricks in the Name of Security

I’ve been reviewing quite a few laptops for PC World. Recently, I brought home a laptop from a manufacturer I won’t name here, because the brand isn’t relevant to the problem I encountered. It started out as a simple laptop review, and quickly devolved into an exercise in frustration. And as it turned out, it …

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