At the very bottom of a long list of sobering lessons to be learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is one having to do with the security of digital data. Katrina Lesson #1432: Backups are Useless I don’t have precise statistics, but I’d venture to say that most people don’t make regular backups. Between […]

I was a little slow to pick up on the blogging thing. I have been writing in this particular forum for less than six months. Prior to that, I had a taste of blogging, through my connections with various friends on the LiveJournal site. Creating an ID at first just to post non-anonymous comments to […]

I’m disappointed to see that Buzz Andersen has decided not to go through with a CocoaRadio interview he was slated for. He’s entitled to make his own choices, but I just think this is ridiculous. Apple is not an oppressive authoritarian regime. It’s a company. A place you work for. A place that pays you […]

A few weeks ago, a relatively low-key, one day convention took place in Cambridge, MA. The event, put on by the unconventional Y Combinator venture group, was dubbed “Startup School.” Essentially a one-day lecture series in which a number of high-caliber computer and business industry players gave short speeches and answered Q&A from an audience […]