• Charging to sit in the emergency row with Northwest Airlines

    These days it seems airlines are trying just about anything to make an extra buck.  The latest quick buck approach that I’ve experienced is the added charge to fly in the emergency row on Northwest Airlines flights.  I did this yesterday, paying an additional $15 to fly in the emergency…

  • TechCrunch reviews online mapping services, declares Yahoo! the winner

    TechCrunch is one of the best web 2.0 blogs out there. Not only do I rely on it to get the latest word on emerging online applications, but recenly Michael Arrington has added some great, in depth reviews of popular web applications. In the latest review, TechCrunch takes on the…

  • Automattic gets funding

    It goes without saying that I believe WordPress is the best blogging application available today. This week Automattic, the company founded by Matthew Mullenweg – developer of WordPress, annouced it had received “a little funding“. That’s great news for all WordPress fans, especially those who use Automattic’s WordPress.com. Like most…

  • It’ll cost you $2,000 for a Samsung UMPC….what??

    My pal Marc Perton writes over at Engadget that Samsung is going to sell their UMPC for approximately $2,000 in Korean. What!?!? This thing was supposed to be a sub-$500 machine! Ok, so Samsung will include a bunch of accessories for that price, but lets be realistic here. Can you…

  • Another Sunrise hint from 37Signals

    The boys over at 37Signals dropped another hint that Sunrise may be around the corner.  ‘Bout time the world got a decent CRM tool….I hope they don’t dissappoint us.

  • Silk Screen to kick off with Amu on Opening Night

    A few days ago I mentioned that I was helping out on a great new event in Pittsburgh, the Silk Screen Film Festival. Well we’ve finally got a list of movies that are planned for the festival, and they look pretty impressive. Opening up is a film called Amu. The…

  • Rob Bushway does a video review of the Gateway convertible notebook

    The Aircraft carrier of Tablet PCs, Gateway’s M280 is probably one of the most reasonably priced ink ready laptops available today.  I first got a glimpse of this behemouth when I saw Marc Orchant‘s Gateway late last year.  It is certainly a big, powerful tablet.  I don’t know if I’d…

  • New theme time again!

    Well, I shouldn’t say that with such excitement, since I put a lot of time into customizing Squible for this blog. Overall I like the look of this theme, but as it stands today, it is awfully flaky on some browsers….especially the beta Microsoft IE 7. I know that is…

  • Cool entry on skylines

    Check this site out.  Pretty cool, subjective rating of city skylines.  Interesting to note that Pittsburgh is mentioned, given that we’re such a small city.  But, we do have a great skyline!