Author Archives: Rob Beschizza
Sorry if you got caught in the spam filter
It got more aggressive of late and I just noticed a few dozen good comments in the spam bucket. Humblest apols if your deathless prose did not make it “in time” to the posts in question!
Peek lifetime subscriptions return
Peek’s selling lifetime subscriptions again. $300 gets you the email-only handset and the WWAN hookup it needs, for ever. To demythologize that a little–let’s say lifetime is 5 years–that’s about $5 a month, or a third of the normal price. … Continue reading
Tablet computer gallery
Wired’s Brian Chen polishes off the history of tablet computers … beginning in 1888.
Latitude Z
That Dell’s new Latitude is $2,000 suggests quality and high specifications are involved, but this one has a trick up its sleeve: wireless recharging, thanks to the (wired) dock that comes with it. It’s it nice, also, to see heavy … Continue reading
Thumbdrive in a cassette tape
Put your sounds on the stick, put the stick inside the ancient-looking cassette tape, then scrawl all over it for verity’s sake. 6 different designs, one overwhelming wave of nostalgia. [Suck UK] Thanks, Xeni!
The awfulness of Windows vs. the creepiness of Mac
Charlie Brooker: I don’t care if you’re right. I just want you to die. I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway. … Still, bad though it … Continue reading
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• April 4—8, 2011: 63rd Annual Conference on World Affairs
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• March 29—31, 2012: Writer in Residence
York College of Pennsylvania