Continued from here.
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that digital cameras these days are basically supercomputers generating huge amounts of data that our poor little human brains couldn’t keep up with. The fact that we try to keep track of our photos like they were old-fashioned prints just doesn’t make sense and ends up [...]

The question on Digg went:
“How would you explain to a 50 year-old computer noob why the Microsoft wireless photo keyboard that he saw stacked in PC World does not work on his Ubuntu machine? What happens when a piece of hardware breaks?”
When I installed Ubuntu on my mom’s laptop I told her that [...]

I didn’t think this one through, actually. I’ve used Debian for years and knew I wanted to use something based on it. I don’t like the look of KDE much. I wanted a LiveCD so I could test things. Ummm… that leaves me with Ubuntu.
My business partner, Christoph, uses [...]

Nope. The conversation about Ubuntu went something like this:
Me: So how was your trip to Kauai?
Mom: Great! We got the condo looking nice and ready to rent. But while I was there my laptop died.
Me: Oh ya? Lame. What happened?
Mom: It just wouldn’t start. I ended up taking [...]

Most people who know me would agree that I’m a Microsoft guy. I love my X-Box. I love Windows XP. SQL Server’s client tools are worth using and Visual Studio is surprisingly powerful. My previous business was an all Microsoft shop. So how in the world did I become [...]

Isn’t Shooting the Kids about digital photography for the baby set? You bet. The thing is, Amy is the one who’s in charge of taking the pictures and I’m in charge of handling storage, slide shows and pretty much anything that goes along with printing out our photos. Switching from [...]

So we came home yesterday from celebrating Christmas early with my family to a phone call from John at SyncSpeed asking “what happened?” Apparently our web stats went crazy. I quickly checked my e-mail to find 30 new comments about the Yo Momma Loves Ubuntu post and an [...]

Actually, my mom loves Ubuntu. My mother is like most parents these days – they buy a computer at Best Buy or Walmart and they take it home, plug it in and start using the web. The computer they bought usually has Windows on it and some form of AOL. After [...]