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Continue reading →: Apple Watch Report Card – Now that I’ve had it a while (45 days)
Since getting my Apple Watch I’ve gone from “meh” to eager anticipation of the development of the Apple Watch ecosystem. This post captures the background of my optimism.
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Continue reading →: To the amazing Virginia State Trooper I met today
On the way home from the office today I stopped off at the AutoZone on Plank Road in Fredericksburg. When I walked in, a Virginia State Trooper was checking out at the cash register. He had what appeared to be an upper radiator hose and hose fittings. As I walked…
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Continue reading →: Software ate the parking meter
I had some in-person business at USAA the other day in Crystal City, VA. Northern Virginia is not super on-street parking friendly so I was delighted to have my first experience with a mobile/software-powered parking meter. Just a few easy steps: Get the app (street signs provided the Call-to-Action) Locate…
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Continue reading →: Civics competency
Minimum competency. In some cases we spend a LOT of time ensuring that people and organizations are qualified to do something. Doctors, lawyers, even Master Gardeners have long and rigorous training regimens before we, as a society, decide they are qualified to practice their profession. Yet, we allow people to…
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Continue reading →: Google Contributor: Pay with attention or pay with money
Conor Dougherty recently wrote a blog post for the New York Times entitled, “Google Experimenting With Removing Ads for a Fee.” It comes down to this (from the blog post): The service, called Contributor by Google, has users give between $1 and $3 a month to sites like The Onion…
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Continue reading →: Fresh ingredients, easy recipes – The Fresh 20
If you’re a headline reader you can stop here. We recommend you click on the logo for The Fresh 20 above and check it out. My thoughts are summed up as: Great idea, simple but excellent execution, really hope she’s making money so that my family can continue to subscribe,…
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Continue reading →: A fundamental change in global policing
I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal by Tom Loftus (@tomloftus) titled, “The Morning Download: NSA Fears Hackers See ‘Little Price to Pay’ Attacking U.S. Interests.” It’s not a happy story. The ease with which the bad guys can cross multiple international borders, wreak havoc and retreat…
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Continue reading →: Aim for truth not victory
Read the following quotes and you don’t have to read the rest of this blog post… “In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.” — William Penn “The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.” —Richard Henry Pratt…
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Continue reading →: Attempt to fundamentally disrupt rocket technology = Stumble?!?!?
Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of Elon Musk and SpaceX. Earlier this week I am reading the Wall Street Journal and I find an article by Andy Pastor titled, “SpaceX Stumbles in Test to Show Reusable Rocket Technology Advances.” Stumbles? Really?! It’s a few days later and I’m still…
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Continue reading →: You’re going to pay for your content; One Way or Another…
There is no such thing as a free lunch I’ve started this post at least twenty times in the last five years. It’s time to finish it. Dear internet content consumer, There is no such thing as a free lunch. –Rob Is that such a hard thing to understand? On…
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