It’s been more than a month since I last blogged here. I took some well-deserved time off during December. Since last time, I’ve bought an Apple iPhone (more hipster stuff) and Google launched its Nexus One phone. Coincidentally, both happened on the same day but there was no intentional relationship between these events (unless Google [...]
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Why I bought a Mac
Picture by Benjamin Nagel, via Wikimedia Commons Apparently, I’m a hipster now. According to my friend Bryce, who calls everyone a hipster who uses a Mac. Though I feel a certain kinship with PC in the “Get a Mac” commercials (who doesn’t? how can you not root for the likable underdog?), my purchase now entitles [...]

Thoughts about the Microsoft Courier
How about this thing? Courier is the project name for a future tablet-style device from Microsoft. The story was broken a few days ago by Gizmodo, one of the gadget blogs. Courier is not quite a tablet: it’s two tablets on a hinge that fold closed like a paper notebook or agenda. Here’s a concept [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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- Klout scores are like the oil price. 1-day: +0.06, 7-day: -0.11, 30-day: -0.69. 2 hours ago
- Great profile of Regina Spektor in NYT Magazine. j.mp/L78vyY 2 days ago
- RT @JPBarlow: Google is Skynet. Pass it on while you still can. 4 days ago
- @metromorning Merci. 4 days ago
- @metromorning That last piece of music--what was it? Can't find ref. on Lula Lounge site. Stunning track! 4 days ago
- RT @sivers Smart people don't think others are stupid: sivers.org/ss 5 days ago
- @jshuey @idubbs Isn't there also some app that lets you use an iPad via bluetooth or wifi that way? Might have better battery life. 5 days ago
- I'm learning to always use a space after a forward slash ("/ ") in diagrams. Helps minimize the line-breaking pain. 5 days ago
