It’s hard enough already not to become the prisoner of your own expertise, but it will only get harder, because change is accelerating. That’s not a recent trend; change has been accelerating since the paleolithic era. Ideas beget ideas. I don’t expect that to change. But I could be wrong.
Category: Technology
Well I Was Headed to Bed but NEVERMIND!
Woohoo… Android 5.0 Lollipop on my 2014 Moto X. It’s like Christmas in…November.
I Was Tumblr Cool Once
WSJ: You Can Ditch Your PC Now
Completely agree with the main idea of this article… Chromebooks (and tablets to some extent) are mature platforms and great devices for both creating and consuming content for personal and business use:
In short, I’m done with PCs—at least as they are conventionally defined. And I think the majority of long-suffering PC users would be too if they weren’t so accustomed to thinking of computers in the same way they have for decades. Building new technology is easy compared with changing the habits of those who use it.
Why Blogs?
Yep…
Blogs are — or at least were — different. They are an individual’s place for speaking out loud, but the relationships that form around them were based on links among posts, not social networks that link among people. I’m all for social networks, but we also need networks of ideas.
What is a Computer?
Fun Sesame Street video from the 80’s, but I wonder how kids today would answer that last question… “can a computer think?”
The Next Printing Revolution
Having access to a 3D printer at Hammond has definitely changed the way I think about design, production, and consumption (in a school environment at least).
I greatly look forward to the concept of printing to continue to extend from hand written manuscripts to the printing press to 3D printing to this type of molecular crystal printing…
But the most interesting application has to be the potential for 3D-printed pills and medications. The technique could be adapted into a consumer-friendly machine allowing patients to simply print their own medicines in the exact dosages they need.
via Scientists Produce Rounded Crystals That Could Lead To 3D-Printed Pills.
Posting to Social Spaces Instead of Blogs
I’ll admit, there are times when I think it would be much easier to share links, ideas, and posts via something like Google+ or Facebook or Twitter rather than my blog.
Then I take a deep breath and step back. I realize the instant amount of traffic that is offered by those services doesn’t equate to the feeling of having my own space on my own blog.
Just a late night feeling after a long day.
Handy Chromebook Solutions Guide for edu folks from CDW
Hadn’t seen this before but lots of good information for those educational institutions pondering Chromebooks and accessories…
CDW Chromebook Solutions Guide.
I Went Back to Android
I tried.
I bought an iPhone 5s in August and did everything I could to try and live in an Apple ecosystem full time (for science).
However, given the choice at the Verizon Store yesterday between an iPhone 6+ and a new Moto X, I took the Android path.
I don’t regret or second guess my decision one bit. I’m typing this now on my Moto X and I’m loving this phone so far. Its quite possibly the best mobile I’ve ever owned (given, it’s only been a day).
Why?
I’m in the Google cloud, I like to tinker, and I don’t like having the same phone as 90% of the people I see around me. Plus, I can run my life and business on this phone in ways that aren’t possible with iOS.
iPhone is great. It’s just not for me.