Text-to-Speech Podcasts

I saw the “listen now” button on Dennis’ blog, it’s a new feature and a clever service. I signed up, look for it soon.

It’s called Odiogo and converts the text I write to speech. At the top of each post you’ll see a small button called ‘Listen Now.’ When clicked you can listen [...]

Oh My 401k

Global market news today is pretty grim, thankfully the U.S. markets were closed today but that small concession will be short lived.

From the reaction that the markets have offered it is clear that $150 billion in giveaways to taxpayers isn’t going to help this economy. Seriously we have one of biggest mortgage resets on the [...]

Monday’s Noon Links

I’m lazy today so just links and no commentary.

OpenID2 becomes even more important I have been a MyYahoo user since it’s inception. 3 years ago I went into Yahoo - more or less pleading with them to open up MyYahoo, turn it into a Portals 2.0 - DLA - and ultimately put Yahoo [...]

EU Schizophrenia

Here’s the thing I never quite grasp about the EU, they want the economic upside and mobility of a unified trading nation but wish to preserve the protectionism of a nation-state… something about having one’s cake and eating it too?

I am quite positive that if Nokia was closing a plant in France to open one [...]

Wal-Mart Gets Tough On RFID

This piece in InformationWeek makes it sound like Wal-Mart sprung this on their suppliers. This technology initiative has been underway for several years past the pilot phase and every WM supplier knew this was coming. The thing that is surprising, if anything at all, is that WM kept cutting the suppliers a break with regard [...]

Stupid Polls on SFGate

When I see polls like the one I clipped below (in SFGate, here’s the story) I really wonder if people pay attention to news and/or understand basic economics. But mostly I just wonder about the IQ of people writing these polls. First of all, tax actions are intended to stimulate economic activity that results in [...]

California Blues

Damn if this doesn’t just about sum things up. Politicians in this state always talk about never having enough revenues, as in taxes, yet we year over year manage to grow a budget that includes record revenues. Nobody, certainly not voters, ever asks “hey what the hell are you spending all that money on?”.

We have [...]

Mobile Phone Photo Sharing

Interesting service, unfortunate name.

40 Hour Laptop Batteries

I guess that whole non-replaceable MacBook Air battery issue kind of goes away with this development.

I Am A Wii Hunter

I don’t know where the hell these people are getting Wii consoles… I’ve been watching Wii Tracker and Wii Hunter for two weeks and have yet to score one.

Nintendo’s Wii game console topped Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in U.S. video-game console sales for the key month of December, according to numbers released this afternoon [...]

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