Fallen Into Knowledge

It’s not a game, Scrabble is serious business

I am sitting here at Stumptown, taking a break in between errands enjoying a cup of some of the world’s best coffee (which only cost a buck), looking out onto Belmont and getting my email thanks to free, Personal Telco provided, internet. I even get a free re-fill.
Oh, and the sky is blue. Glorious.

Fast Company has a great article up about Wal-Mart, the brand everybody loves to hate.

Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached.

A good read

Fast Company, btw, has lots of great articles: Another recent one worth reading is about Toyota

Well, it looks like I had better not switch careers and become a prognosticator of future apple technology:  my record isn’t too good.  That said, I would like to point out that all the things that did happen in the keynote I had predicted.  Its just that I also predicted about thirty things would happen that did not.  Leopard, iLife, and iWork were absent, although the version of Keynote that Mr. Jobs used in his presentation had features that are absent from my version.  HD was not the focus of the apple TV, though it was mentioned; it has Pre-N as I thought it would.  The “real video iPod” and the “iPhone” were both released (well, sort of released - we still have to wait until June), its just that these are the same thing.

Having said all of that, I want an iPhone.

If you are even vaguely interested in technology, you know that Macworld is upon us, and you know that Macworld is where Apple releases a passel of new products. You might also be aware that rumors of those releases abound before the big event, and although nobody really knows anything - Apple is is famously tight-lipped about future product releases - everybody has their guesses as to what Apple has in store for us. Here are mine:

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One of the joys of digital photography is that it doesn’t cost anything (after the purchase of the camera, of course) to take pictures. So I take pictures, crazy pictures, pictures I know won’t be any good - just to see what happens. Tonight I was playing with the different flash modes on my camera.