One of the hard realities of having a major medical event in your life is that you are never out of its shadow. Almost a dozen years since doctors took care of my heart problems, I have to go in ev… | Continue reading
The teenager I met a long time ago is now in his mid-thirties. And I couldn’t be more proud of Matt for evolving and becoming a man, with clear ideas, strict values and appreciation for frien… | Continue reading
There seems to be television and video everywhere. And that’s why finding the good stuff is getting harder and harder — and I mean “must see TV” or “worth my attention… | Continue reading
I have such an old fashioned view of marriage, or maybe I am a hopeless romantic to believe in “ever forever together.” (By the way, my old fashioned ideas — they are a result of being the son of a… | Continue reading
Taylor Lorenz has written a wonderful piece on why we should give up trying to tame the email problem. Good point — people send more email if you reply to their email anyway. So to hell with … | Continue reading
One of the better, apolitical Twitter threads explaining Paul Manafort’s crime when meeting with the Russians. He breaks it down like an ad-guy who works with big brands. I don’t want t… | Continue reading
Having retired from technology journalism and never having to cover the CES trade show will always remain my singular most cherished professional victory. It is as pointless (from a news perspectiv… | Continue reading
Harold T. Martin, an NSA contractor, was turned into NSA by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. He had stolen many terabytes of data and brought it home. A few months later the USA issued warnings against … | Continue reading
Google says its “Assistant” (the voice-based query service) is soon going to be on a billion devices –primarily phones, and a majority of them being on the Android phones. There a… | Continue reading
Ari Levy has come up with an old-fashioned and often gone missing style of corporate leader profile of Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff. If there is any criticism of this piece — there is t… | Continue reading
After reading this story, Ambrosia, which claims that blood of the young people is a miracle treatment, seems a bit of flim-flam. My takeaway from the story is that we as humans are obsessed with l… | Continue reading
Link-sharing was and remains one of the primary aspects of blogging, though we have given up on link-sharing on our homesteads in favor of Facebook and Twitter. As I start to spend more time on my … | Continue reading
We have become so accustomed to our leaders — political and corporate — lying to us, that when someone actually shares the facts, we choose to overlook them, instead of trying to read b… | Continue reading
I wore my Grand Seiko for almost 300 days last year – whether I was going to work, staying at home, out for coffee, or on a photo adventure. In other words, it went through some serious abuse and t… | Continue reading
Over on Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, as he normally does (or more accurately as his social media team does) shared a photo with his wife, Priscilla Chen, celebrating the arrival of 2019, and wishing… | Continue reading
“We’re funny about time. We build instruments to measure it, but our senses can’t dealt with very short or long periods. It flies when we’re having fun and drags when we&… | Continue reading
Dr. Larry Roberts, one of the true pioneers and part of a group of scientists that helped create an early version of what became the modern Internet, passed away on December 26, 2018. The news was … | Continue reading
It was today, back in 2007, due to some health-related complications I almost died — and when I came out of the hospital, I knew that things wouldn’t be the same again. I have had to change — a lot… | Continue reading
I recently caught up with my former colleague Stacey Higginbotham, who is now running a successful independent media company and we ended up doing a podcast about humans and machines, and how the h… | Continue reading
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
Facebook, is finally getting the scrutiny it should have received a decade ago, and unfortunately it has become a game of personalities, attention seeking and to some extent media one-up man ship. … | Continue reading
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
“A lot of Silicon Valley firms — Amazon, Google, Facebook — they really are conglomerates. And yet at some level you can see what the coherence is. Industrial conglomerates don’t have a… | Continue reading
Last night, the Long Now folks hosted a talk with my dear friend Chris Michel, a photographer who has immense empathy and appreciation for nature. I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said that he has b… | Continue reading
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You… | Continue reading
A few days ago I met Chris Michel for coffee. It is our semi-regular monthly catch up to discuss life, photography and occasionally, technology. Often we meet in one of the coffee shops – Blu… | Continue reading
These are some of the stories, essays and blog posts I have read today. This list is updated multiple times a day, so be sure to comeback often. The latest one is on top. Sign-up for my email newsl… | Continue reading
Images captured by a Japanese weather satellite, Himawari-8 were stitched together into a time-lapse, which turns 24 hours into 12 seconds. You can see the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of … | Continue reading
iPhone XS Max. Leica M-A with a Leica f2/50mm Summicron. Nikon D850 along with Nikon f 2.8 24-70 and Nikon 2.8 70-200 lenses. I had initially planned to bring along a Leica TL2 with an f1.4/50mm (e… | Continue reading
Photography oriented trips are a visual Marathon. You are always on the move; your eyes are still looking, scanning, cataloging and telling your brain what a photo worth making is. I usually drive … | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. Thanks for leaving a legacy and the gift of your writings. In his 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, noted writer, astronomer and philo… | Continue reading
When companies want to send me their products, I mostly say no. I am not a reviewer — never have been. I say yes, only when I can incorporate these products into my daily flow and use them wi… | Continue reading
As a diabetic, I like to torture myself by watching the episodes of The Great British Bake Off — I do so by turning away the iPad screen and just listening to the soundtrack of words, music and wis… | Continue reading
It is not fun to wake up and learn that a firmware update killed your network attached storage. Looks like that is what happened to my QNAP. It is in an infinite loop of trying to boot. Of course, … | Continue reading
The New York Times has been a pointy edge of the coverage on Facebook, Google and Big Tech domination of our daily lives. They have often presented (relentless) wonderful reporting only to counterb… | Continue reading
When I went to sleep last night, I was excited about the prospects of the new day. I had no idea that it would turn out to be one of those red letter days that teach you pretty much everything abou… | Continue reading
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a heartfelt eulogy for his co-founder, Paul Allen, who passed away (earlier this month.) The eulogy has since been reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and The… | Continue reading
While visiting my parents in India, I decided to take a little break and visit Ladakh for a short photography break. When I was growing up, Ladakh was such a remote location, and the idea of going … | Continue reading
For almost seven days, I have not had an internet connection. My phone has been silent and there has been no television anywhere. I don’t know what our president is saying, and the only newspapers … | Continue reading
Last night, the tech-twitter was lit-up by the shocking news that Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have put in their papers and are leaving the company that bought them for a bi… | Continue reading
iPhoneXsMax — When I heard the name and saw it up on the stage, I shuddered. Apple’s name for its newest, biggest iPhone made one Microserf quip on Twitter: “And I thought we sucked at naming… | Continue reading
Like everyone else, I watched the Washington Social Media circus with interest. A lot of words were used. Crocodile tears shed. Promises made. Bouquets of derision thrown. But no one actually said … | Continue reading
The last month in the life of Tesla and its mercurial chief executive can best be described as a bungee jump from a plane. No surprise, that we have a bull market in opinions about Elon Musk, his b… | Continue reading
Microsoft is once again redesigning Skype — in order to make Skype great again. Or as a Microsoft executive puts it too “focus on simplicity* to provide an overall better experience for you by maki… | Continue reading
On September 12, as far as Facebook is concerned I won’t exist. Yesterday, I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I let go of 300,000 followers, 1200 friends and the blue seal of authenticity. … | Continue reading
On September 12, as far as Facebook is concerned I won’t exist. Yesterday, I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I let go of 300,000 followers, 1200 friends and the blue seal of authenticity. … | Continue reading
I don’t know why, but I like cold, desolate places. I like snow, ice and learning how humans survive in these tundra-like conditions. And that is why I was watching The Last Trapper, a documentary … | Continue reading