Monthly Archives: April 2008

From the Pipeline - 4.30.08

April 30, 2008 – 10:48 pm

And so we make it through another Hump Day and head into the weekend stretch. Hopefully up here in the Great White North we’ll start seeing the return of decent weather as well. These 40F days are getting old really quick. In the meantime here’s some things that caught my eye in today’s FriendFeed pipeline.
Psystar [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Pipeline |

Can we please give the term ‘blogger’ the kiss off

April 30, 2008 – 4:24 pm

While there might be some minor points of discussion about actual dates the generally accepted time period that blogging has been around is ten years. In that time we have seen what first started out as web-logs where we could share all those wonder daily events with anyone who cared to read them evolve [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Blogging, Internet |

From the Pipeline - 4.29.08

April 29, 2008 – 10:38 pm

You’d think it was damn near fall instead of spring with the way the temperatures keep going down. I realize I might be living in the Great White North but 39F in April is getting a little ridiculous. In the meantime here’s a few things that caught my eye in today’s FriendFeed pipeline.
 Yep It’s Coming… [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Pipeline |

What do I owe my readers?

April 29, 2008 – 5:27 pm

This is a question I ask myself every once in a while and I am sure that I am not alone in that aspect. Asking the question though also allows us an opportunity to evaluate how true we as independent bloggers are staying to what started us down this road in the first place. [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Blogging, Miscellaneous |

The Crossloop Community

April 29, 2008 – 4:28 pm

   When I first reviewed Crossloop, there was little more to it than a very simple, yet very functional Remote Assistance program. It holds a place in my ‘toolkit’ and I usually install it on customer computers for possible remote repairs.
  Since that initial post, some pretty amazing things have happened over at Crossloop.com. Nearly [...]

By Bill Vincent | Posted in Software, Technology |

From the Pipeline - 4.28.08

April 28, 2008 – 10:38 pm

I don’t know what the hell is going on with the weather up here in CanuckLand but in my neck of the woods it’s been 41F, cold, damp and a nasty north wind with some saying we could even see snow in the next day or two. It’s just not right but in the meantime [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Pipeline |

Of course Twitter isn’t mainstream and won’t be for some time

April 28, 2008 – 7:49 pm

Kara Swisher must have been having a slow news and opinion day; it is Monday after all, so decided to liven things up a little bit by talking about the one thing that is guaranteed to get you on Techmeme for most of the day at least.
That one thing of course is Twitter. Whether [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Social Media |

Microsoft needs an intervention

April 28, 2008 – 2:18 pm

At some point you have to really feel for the Microsoft employees who care about the company and are passionate about the products they are responsible for. There comes a point though where even the most passionate employee must begin to wonder why they are bothering. With Ballmer leading the company on the fool’s [...]

By Steven Hodson | Posted in Microsoft |