When I was a young teen, I remember going to my first and only estate sale. It was such an odd feeling trudging around some dead dude’s garage, looking at his tools and things. Even now I think how strange it would be if, the week after I kicked off, there would be strangers pilfering […]
…when it comes to children, that’s where consent gets complicated…
This writing is a bit late of course, but my last day in Spain was quite a memorable one. One thing I saw in Spain that I remember from my childhood is cigarette machines. They used to be everywhere, then suddenly they disappeared. Obviously the issue was that an unmonitored vending machine would not be […]
Everyone knows that flying from just about anywhere in the US to just about anywhere in Europe is a painful event. I think that is sufficient to sum up my experience in the air, however I did take a kind of cool moto (mobile phone photo… roll with me on this, I’m trying to create […]
Everyone knows that travel gives you a broader sense of “the world”, and ultimately redefines the reality of your personal universe. Everyone’s personal universe is different. It is your concept of “the world” at any given time, and it can expand beyond the realms of our galaxy or in an instant it can contract down […]
I just wanted to say, coming from a digital SLR user like myself, I never thought I would actually have a good use for and appreciate the quality of a camera-phone camera. For the most part, the digital cameras built into mobile phones have, for me, always been relegated to taking stupid snaps of people […]
Next month I’m off on a whirlwind tour… From September 2nd to the 5th I’ll be in Barcelona. Then from the 7th to the 12th I’ll be in Amsterdam, after which I return to the States to attend the VMWorld conference in Vegas from the 15th to the 18th. If anyone in Spain or the […]
So many people have been asking me on the RFID Toys forum for a way to use RFID to locate things. I’ve always told them two things: 1) RFID is an identifying technology, not a tracking technology… and 2) Check out the Loc8tor, a simple RFID based direction and range finding solution… but I’d never […]
I was thinking a bit about RFID and personal privacy today and a simple yet powerful truth slowly dawned on me. The root of the RFID privacy issue in this country is, quite simply: You have no right to privacy, not when it comes to personal or private enterprise. The constitutional right to privacy that […]
I really have no reason to post this, other than I thought it was funny for a customer service person to have even an inkling of a sense of humor, and to play along… that was a priceless moment in an otherwise hectic day. ================================================== Agent: Hello, I’m a Sprint products and services online specialist. […]
