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2024-10-29: Link: Jeff Bezos’ view from nowhere It’s appropriate that I should revive this site for the first time in years to post about …

2024-10-27: New hosting for Fatmixx Fatmixx has moved from Pair.com to micro.blog for hosting. This also means we’re no longer …

2022-03-04: Monday links moving to another site Hi folks - hope you're having a good Friday! I've decided to consolidate the tech things I'm doing …

2018-08-01: Time Should Fade (Almost) Everything... Update: There aren’t APIs for most of the services that I’d want to use here, so …

2018-03-25: I Deactivated My Facebook Profile Just as a public service announcement: I deactivated my Facebook account to see what it’s like …

2017-06-26: E Pluribus Unum The motto of the United States is not, in fact, “Fuck you, I got mine.” It was, and should have …

2016-11-11: We hold these truths to be self-evident... Like many of you who vehemently opposed a Trump presidency, I've been walking around in a bit of a …

2016-09-26: Barack Obama And Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview But I tell you what, though. [Long pause.] I’m named Barack Hussein Obama. I’m African-American. And …

2016-02-28: Rethinking the Work-Life Equation Workers in the experimental group were told they could work wherever, and whenever, they chose so …

2016-02-25: From Humble Beginnings: the NFL vs. eSports By most accounts, American Football1 started out with humble beginnings: a college sport that …

2016-02-07: Master & Dynamic MW60 Headphones - Bluetooth headphones that live up to the hype So, I may have a headphone problem the way some people have shoe problems.[footnote]though my wife …

2015-10-20: One year later with the Twelve South SurfacePad A year ago, I wrote that the Twelve South SurfacePad was my favorite iPhone case. After a year, I'm …

2015-08-02: Saying goodbye to Google Analytics, Hello Piwik In my previous post, I mentioned that I was looking at reducing my dependence on free services as an …

2015-07-09: Goodbye Google Apps (GMail), Hello Fastmail (and MailRoute) I recently moved nearly all of my email off of Google’s services over to Fastmail, with MailRoute in …

2015-06-26: On the New MacBook I’ve been using the new MacBook as a personal travel laptop for the last month or so. I’ve been …

2015-06-23: Some Observations on the Mobile Market in India Living in India has given me a new perspective on a lot of things. Professionally, I’m constantly …

2015-06-10: OK, I'm convinced... Must have headphones for heavy travelers I can't believe I'm recommending this, being a Bose-hater for most of my adult life, but the Bose …

2015-04-21: Moov: Fitness coaching, not just tracking We're flooded with fitness oriented wearable devices from the step/activity trackers like the Fitbit …

2015-04-12: An iPad, a Mac, and a Twitch.tv I found myself watching some players on Twitch.tv this weekend playing Vainglory. It's pretty much …

2015-01-04: Practicing RC flying with a simulator One of my recent obsessions has been RC flying. So far, I've played with relatively cheap …

2014-12-08: My favorite iPhone case For the last two years, I didn’t use a case for my iPhone. I really love the look of the 5 & 5S, …

2013-08-02: Yeah, I got nothing (Note: This will likely only be of interest to my local friends and social network buddies. It's a …

2013-06-18: Why we stopped using Trello, even though we love it I tweeted this earlier … we’ve stopped using @trello at @fanzter, but I still love the product. The …

2013-01-29: I was on the radio I was a guest on today's episode of Where We Live on WNPR. The topic was on Connecticut Startup …

2013-01-01: Sensors, LEDs & iPhones, oh my! Over Christmas, I hacked together my first hardware/software project. It's been a long time since …

2012-12-14: A jumble of thoughts On a normal Friday of a normal December, a bunch of families said goodbye to their kids and sent …

2012-07-12: We need context, not balance Like many towns, West Hartford has a advertising supported, free weekly paper that's mailed to …

2012-05-12: Proxigram supports Facebook You can now pull in photos from your Facebook account. Right now, it grabs everything, but I have …

2012-05-10: Proxigram now supports Flickr Quick update on Proxigram: it now supports Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing service. If you're …

2012-04-28: Proxigram - a sprint using Node.js, Express.js, & the Instagram API I'm happy to share a little experiment I played with this week. I needed to take a look at Node.js …

2012-04-19: Incentivizing individual relocation vs. corporate relocation Where We Live ran a show today on why younger people (25-34) are leaving the state. I ended up …

2011-11-07: What we have here is a failure to communicate (I should point out, coincidently, and in testament to how obvious the headline choice is, the …

2011-05-11: Google I/O: An unadulterated celebration of technological imagination That mouthful is my one sentence description of Google I/O. The demo floors and tonight's After …

2010-12-01: Weight loss FAQ As most of my friends and coworkers know, I've lost a whole lot of weight over the last year. Folks …

2010-11-12: 'Our Great Education Challenge' at the CT Forum I attend each Connecticut Forum event hoping to leave smarter than when I arrive. This is usually a …

2010-10-03: Following up on my @ctforum tweet I wanted to briefly expand on a few tweets I made during last night's Connecticut Forum. The topic …

2010-09-12: Nurses make all the difference It's hard to find time to blog or write or do much of anything aside from take care of our new baby, …

2010-08-08: Acadia National Park: one of my favorite places For so many reasons, Acadia National Park is special to Heidi and me. If you haven't been, you're …

2009-09-19: Binoculars for looking at butterflies and insects? Who knew? A while ago, I was looking at (and tweeted about) some dude's travel gear list and noticed a nice …

2008-01-05: The Back-to-Basics Egg Muffin Toaster I've been remiss in my blogging responsibilities and, for that, I apologize. It's already January …

2007-12-31: One year with the best universal remote I've ever used: Logitech Harmony Universal Remote That's pretty much the review right there in the headline, but as I continue to stall actually …

2007-11-02: Washed out colors on a MacBook Pro (or any Mac OS X Computer) Another bit of Google fodder, in case others run into this problem. BTW, this applies to a computer …