Judie Lipsett Turns On Me

I get this secret communique from her via email:
holy shit. they just gave us the advantage 7510. damn
Apparently Microsoft broke the program I had her running under.
How the hell did they figure out the code was giving her a free HTC Advantage?
Foiled again!
Even worse, she’s blogging about her liberation from my brainwashing enslavement to the [...]

Nikki Finke Gets Writing Award

“Best Of The West” Column Writing Win
The 2008 “Best of the West” journalism competition, recognized as the West’s most prestigious, is designed to reward journalistic excellence and to promote freedom of information. It is administered by the nonprofit First Amendment Funding and draws entries each year from journalists in the 13 states west of the [...]

I Said Apple Sync Was Important: Here’s Proof

iPhone dev continues
My work with the iPhone SDK continues, working on three clients to our backend services at the moment. I’m very much looking forward to blogging about this as it’s cleared at work. But as you probably have noticed from my posts, working locally and synchronizing with the back-end is what I believe most [...]

MSI Wind: Photos Of Black Version

Update: Better images. Click each to enlarge.

Right now, the black MSI Wind is the top contender for my cheap subnotebook. If it turns out to be too big, too heavy, or otherwise flawed, the next contender is the Asus e900 — in black.
Previously here:
MSI Wind: Photo Of Three Colors
New MSI Wind Photos!
Update 3: [...]

A Perfect Subnotebook Accessory?

Whoa … this sounds lustworthy.

Go read the specs.
I really could have used both a cheap subnotebook and this when the band Girls Don’t Cry was still together and performing.
I’ll be watching for reviews of this. I hope it’ll be worth getting.
(And, yeah, maybe the next-gen iPhone will do video — or there will be [...]

Quote: Joanna Stern

I Gave Up My Notebook for an Eee PC 900
Last week the long-awaited Eee PC 900 arrived at our office. After it underwent the Ellis Island sign-in process—okay, rather our laptop tracking database—it was greeted by some eager onlookers. Like a great big bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, we passed the system around, and I [...]

Blog Notes: Blogger Version

WordPress’ code gnomes have recently done some tinkering that is biting me in the ass now that I’m simulposting.
When you see the Previously here: at the end of some posts, that list is manually generated by me. I try to look up the relevant posts and put their titles and links in.
This used to [...]

MSI Wind: Photo Of Three Colors

– swiped from InkTech, Italy
But over at the Laptop Magazine blog, silver was also mentioned as a color.
I hope, unlike the Asus EeePC, MSI will make black the readily-available color.
Previously here:
New MSI Wind Photos!
Update 3: Subnotebook Dimensions
MSI Wind Hits eBay In Italy
MSI Wind: $610 In U.S.?
Help Interrogate MSI About Its Wind!
Attention MSI: Wind Has Wings
MSI [...]

New MSI Wind Photos!

Whoa. This stuff was published April 28th and it only gets to me now?!
Why didn’t anyone leave a frikkin Comment with the URL?
Go see the retail box and slipcase at Tweaktown.
Previously here:
Update 3: Subnotebook Dimensions
MSI Wind Hits eBay In Italy
MSI Wind: $610 In U.S.?
Help Interrogate MSI About Its Wind!
Attention MSI: Wind Has Wings
MSI Wind: [...]

Update 3: Subnotebook Dimensions

Click for Update 4.
This adds the MSI Wind. Note that it will have two different weights, depending on Linux (3 cell battery) or Windows XP (6-cell battery)! Note that it will also be larger(!) than the hp Mini Note with a weight that approaches it too.
hp Omnibook 300 - source: hp Omnbook Archive
11.1″ [...]