Tim Bray posted to his blog an article about accepting work from Google. In it, he makes a painfully truthful remark about Apple Computer. I had first heard about this on CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast, so I looked it up. Tim Bray is a co-author of Extensible Markup Language (XML), and he’s respected in [...]

As I previously wrote, the iPod touch continues to be a stellar device. Given it’s a phone-less version of the iPhone, I know why that device is so popular and gets rave reviews from even non-Mac users. I’ve always wanted a shared calendar resource in the cloud that my wife and I could jointly manage [...]

Everyone is getting carried away with Google’s announcement that it will release a thin-client, web-oriented operating system targeting netbooks that will be released … in a year. Did you get all that? A whole year from now. It will be a thin client! Your computer will boot to a browser. This is interesting, but it’s [...]

Paul Thurrott reports that Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, admitted that Google will represent the next significant threat to the Windows ecosystem. Ballmer foresees Google adapting its Android operating system (currently a smart phone OS) for netbook computers, and eventually desktops. I don’t know why I hadn’t anticipated this, to be honest. Consumers are migrating toward [...]

I’m a wannabe Web developer … just look around. I wouldn’t know how to write malicious code any better than the Visual Studio controls I configure on the other parts of this Web site (BizGeek is a WordPress blog and it does the magic for me). Anyway, I was investigating site search options for BurlapMonkey [...]