I recently purchased a Lenovo Yoga 900. Overall, I like it a lot, although there are a couple of irksome things that I'll probably cover in a detailed blog post. One big problem that I had with it is that, on occasion, the "s" and "l" keys would double-enter when I struck them. For example,…
Watson Personality Insight & Tone Analyzer
Here’s a fun pair of tools out of IBM’s Watson project: the Personality Insights and Tone Analyzer. Personality Insights For Personality Insights, I decided to put in two separate blog posts. The first blog post is my listing of three essential concepts in economics, written back in 2007. Because that’s only 3101 words and I…
ChuWi Vi10 Thoughts
About a month or so ago, I purchased a ChuWi Vi10 tablet. Now that I’ve had the device for a bit, here are my thoughts on the tablet. First of all, dual booting is not a joke nor is it a novelty. It really runs Windows, and it runs Windows pretty dog-gone well, even with…
New Phone
I've had my Thunderbolt for two and a half years now. It's a slow but venerable phone and has served me well. Unfortunately, over the past few months, the battery life completely died. I bought a new battery, which fixed that problem, but recently, it started shutting itself off at 80% battery life and after…
Computing Notes
Deduplication built into Windows Server 2012 looks very interesting. I could see it being used for backup files, letting me keep more data local before needing to send it off to tape. Where your Windows space is going. The WinSxS directory is out of scope for that blog post, but it's important to see just how…
New Computer Built
The last desktop computer I bought was in 2007. It was pretty good for the time (or at least as good as I could custom-build for ~$1300 including monitors and peripherals), but it has been showing its age for a while. Sometime in the next year, I plan to build a mega-computer, designed to handle…
More Microsoft Doom Notes
Windows 8 appears to be a flop in the business world. This makes total sense to me: in my experience so far, Windows 8 has a good feel for a tablet-based system, where you may lack a keyboard or end up doing a lot of work with a touchscreen. But as far as desktop-related work…
Windows 105
Bad name, but awesome job. To think that you could rig a Windows look-alike on a Commodore 64 is just amazing.
Wrist Computing
We're getting closer and closer to having Pip-Boys, except without the nuclear apocalypse and giant mutated creature bits. This is us definitely getting the better end of that deal. The actual device isn't wonderful, but it's definitely a step forward, so kudos.
Joel Runyon Meets The Inventor Of The Computer
Joel Runyon runs into Russell Kirsch in a coffeehouse in Portland. Reading the follow-up post is also something I recommend.
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 