Category: Employee Thoughts

Saturday night I was out to a nice dinner with another couple and we were contemplating a bottle of wine. After the normal questions among us about who wants wine and whether we should get white or red, we all admitted we were not experts. The pressure was on. Who was going to step up…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the…

Great news this week—Steve Jobs is back on the job at Apple. Reports coming from the campus in Cupertino say he is looking good and energetic. While Apple seemed to roll on while Steve was on his medical leave, there is no question that he is the heart and soul of Apple. It is his…

Whenever I travel, I make a point of staying at hotels that offer internet access. Most of them offer both wired and wireless connectivity, but very often the wireless is very slow. I tried to email Ed a photo of the Moscone Center here in San Francisco yesterday, but my connection was so bad that…

Higher Ground and Small Dog Electronics are teaming up to bring you ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro to the HG Showcase Lounge on Sunday, June 21. Read about Jake here. So… here’s where you need to pay attention: one lucky person will win a pair of tickets to the show, a 1GB iPod shuffle, and a…

Yesterday, Don, Grace and I played hooky and rode our motorcycles over to the Americade motorcycle rally in Lake George New York. Americade is known as the worlds largest touring rally. This upstate NY event was originally founded as a Honda gathering and has now come to embrace all brands of motorcycles. Americade is a…

Brief review of the Incipio iPhone Feather case. The Feather measures less than 1mm thin, with a soft touch matte finish and includes 2 surface protectors and a cleaning cloth. Feather by Incipio is so thin that it allows the iPhone to be used with many of the docks on the market. Check them out…

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President Obama just marked his 100th day in office, so I thought we’d take a look back to when Apple’s own Steve Jobs returned to Apple to run the show. Like Obama, Jobs had a huge task at hand—Apple was struggling in 1997, and Jobs was rehired to take Apple into a new creative direction…

I’ve long been anti-dashboard. I find that the widgets consume more RAM that is reasonable and can bog down systems not loaded up with memory and running on older hardware. Thankfully, I use a top-of-the-line 17” MacBook Pro with 6GB of RAM so don’t have to worry about processor speed or memory constraints. But I’ve…