Inside the BlackBerry Outage…

Research in Motion just had a really bad week. The service disruption that impacted most of the Canadian company’s key markets, including North America, Europe and Asia, and a big chunk of its 70 million world-wide subscribers, came at an awful time — as many BlackBerry users were being lured to the iPhone 4S (which [...]

Plyometrics & Preparing to Play the Ducks: LSU Story…

On Thursday night, I watched the Cal Bears take on the Oregon Ducks in a nationally televised football game (with the Detroit Tiger baseball game on swap). While the first half was surprisingly close (Cal up 15 to 14), I sensed what was ahead. The Ducks are built for speed. The game turned into a [...]

Sappy-rado: New Chevy Ad Feels Weird…

Anew Chevy ad hit the airwaves. If you watched sports, you may have caught a glimpse of it. A little boy is playing with his “Tonka Toy” version of a Silverado truck — having created an imaginary world that supposedly mirrors his Dad’s (who just so happens to drive a Silverado truck).

The $500 Office Hoodie…

While catching up on my reading, I saw a story in Bloomberg Businessweek that talked about the “Office Hoodie.” A proponent of that type of attire because I am always cold. Hoodies are a staple in my closet. The thing that really got my attention was the price… $500 (!?) Really?? What makes a hoodie [...]

New iPod Nano Gets Unboxed…

The iPod nano 16G is pretty amazing. In fact, I’d say Apple hit it out of the ballpark with this 6th generation which has the same Multi-Touch screen as the iPhone and iPod Touch. The nano is way cute too! It boasts a 1.5-inch 240-by-240 pixel resolution display without much additional border. The official spec [...]

Lateral Publishing Debuts at TechCrunch Disrupt SF…

At the recently concluded TechCrunch Disrupt SF conference that was attended by 2,000 leading technology innovators and investors and over 150 new startups, Red Staple, a pioneer of tools that enable independent artists to easily and affordably create digital packages for rapid distribution, demonstrated its new e-Book authoring tools — a breakthrough in the emerging [...]

Sneak Peek: Red Staple ePub Authoring Tool

Lori from Red Staple, a pioneer of tools that enable independent artists to easily and affordably create digital packages for rapid distribution, gave a sneak peek of the company’s new authoring tool for creating enhanced iBooks and ePubs. This 7-min video, which was shot in late August, this gives you a sense of how quickly, [...]

Battle for the Bintje: Belguim’s Best Potato…

The Wall Street journal had a front page story about the fate of frites in Belgium. I knew Belgium fries were awesome, having had first hand experience many years ago. I figured part of the reason was tied to my experience on that cold very cold (finger numbing) day in March. A paper cone of [...]

Lose the Keys, Gain Time…

According to a story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, UPS (United Parcel Service) has come up with a way to speed up deliveries/reduce costs — that doesn’t involve breaking any laws. Having already optimized many of the delivery-related processes and procedures (i.e. drivers avoid left turns and are required to walk at a [...]

Petco’s New Tagline Emphasizes Differentiator…

Coming on the heels of Burger King doing away with the creepy king, a headline in one of the newsletters I get shouted, “Petco Revamps Logo, Tagline.” For Burger King, the move was long overdue. But Petco?? If I want to see a Padres game while in San Diego, I tell folks I’m heading “Where [...]

Mash-up Cracks Me Up…

So I was working my early morning shift when I suddenly became aware of a song I hadn’t heard before. I paused and pondered what was striking my ears. Then I laughed out loud. For real? So I looked it up and I regret to say, I am quite late to the party when it [...]

The Surprise that Shook up my Jedemi Project…

I had been casually thumbing through the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times when I came upon this story: “NIght Flight”? That’s the same name as a book by one of my guys, St. X (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry). The gist of the story was that Clarence Brown’s “Night Flight,” a 1933 [...]

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