Category: Employee Thoughts

by Jon Spaulding, jon@smalldog.com All things considered, it’s the wrong time to be listing our house, but on Valentine’s Day this year my wife and I did just that, looking to make some change in our lives. We both commute long distances every day, and day care for our boys is in a town outside…

Those of you that know me also know that I am a lifelong Boston Celtics fan. So much so that my office has autographed pictures of famous and not so famous Celtics from over the years. I try to watch every game and when I was a kid, I would listen to Celtics games on…

Faithful and loyal Apple users in Vermont had yet another blow to their hopes of using the newest 3G iPhone here on Friday. An article posted in the Burlington Free Press June 13th revealed that the States Attorney General’s Office and the U.S. Department of Justice have put the halt on the Verizon/AT&T buyout of…

Yesterday Apple announced a much anticipated 3G iPhone, and for weeks now the iPhone has been unavailable for purchase from the Apple Store. With the big announcement of the new faster iPhone that’s now half the price at $199 and with cool new applications, our phone lines have really begun to buzz here at Small…

A young African American Senator and a former first lady—it has been an epic battle to secure the nomination of the Democratic Party for the most powerful elected office in the US. Barack Obama became the first African American to win the nomination by barely defeating Hillary Clinton through 54 hard fought primary contests. Last…

As an avid, lifelong Red Sox fan (and dedicated Mac user) I was delighted to see that Apple’s new, giant, four-story store currently under construction in Boston is paying homage to the Green Monster. I don’t think that Apple has ever done this in any other city. Then again, the fastest way to be accepted…

April is National Volunteer Month, so I thought it would be fitting to share my experience here at Small Dog Electronics. Up until March of 2008, I was a volunteer ambulance driver in our local community’s volunteer rescue organization–the Mad River Valley Ambulance Service (www.mrvas.org). During the roughly three year period in which I participated,…

Love it or hate it, the XO by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is bringing the power of technology as a tool for education to as many students in the world as possible. OLPC Mission: Most of the nearly two–billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One…

Today is our man Tony Amenta’s birthday. Tony, Happy Birthday! Tony is a great music lover, so we figured he’d appreciate this video of beautiful, inspiring and incredibly technical guitar playing.

by Matt, matt@smalldog.com The Internet is abuzz with a story about freezing RAM to “capture” its contents in order to obtain encryption keys. This technique is completely effective, and affects all computers and all operating systems—it’s an inherent limitation of RAM itself. RAM, or random access memory, is considered “volatile” memory, because once removed from…