Archive for the ‘ Broken Stick ’ Category

Blackberry, I’m one of the restless cattle

Just read a very interesting analysis (which seems to really be lacking in so much of what you read on the web (including sometimes here)) on RIM, their BlackBerry suite of products and while they might look good on paper, the writing is on the wall that they have some real issues ahead of them. I’d [ READ MORE ]

Two wrongs don’t make a right

Reading the Wall Street Journal yesterday and was shocked (!) to read the movie industry is about to make another big misstep. After getting all jazzed about 3-D, etc and getting all of their horses hitched to that wagon, they now are off trying to hope a law is changing (or being reinterpreted — I don’t [ READ MORE ]

Unfortunately, You know what’s Stuck?

Typically, I try and stay away from posting on the weekend, but this just seemed right.  Unfortunately, you know what’s stuck on the blade? The World Trade Center site.  I know this is a very sensitive issue, but it is true. There is no way that in any of the rebuilding presentations and plans that [ READ MORE ]

Gmail Sucks.

Gmail Sucks.  And not for the reasons that you might think I’m grinding an axe. 1) Because there is just something spooky about mentiong ‘repairing a dock’ once in 100s of emails and then all of the sudden getting weeks worth of ad links around your email asking you to replace your dock. Even if you [ READ MORE ]

Speaking of broken links…

Mr. Hero had a great post on Friday about broken links. I’m surfing around seeing if I can extend my very cool Squeezebox Duet that I installed on my home stereo a week ago.  While the remote has an audio jack on it that should do what I need, I can’t listen to the audio [ READ MORE ]

Friday Question :: How much business is being lost

Absolutely stunning day yesterday so Mr. Hero & I decided to meet for a beer at one of the recently opened outdoor bars in the City. Crowed.PACKED. Not surprising, it was packed with folks who wanted to enjoy a drink outside because it was basically the first nice day out. We only have about 30 minutes, in [ READ MORE ]

3D – I’ll bring over my glasses

3D continues to be a hot topic on SOTB.  Why? Because it has all the right ingredients to be totally stuck. Until 3DTV’s don’t need glasses it’s just too much of a hassle to have your friends and family over. Here’s a great quote from the NY Times The glasses go for a premium — around $150 [ READ MORE ]

Stuckbucks

Attending a conference and walking around tryinh to find the Starbucks that is supposed to be in the convention center. I found it. I found it closed. Are you kidding? There is a conference in session and yet Starbucks is closed. I don’t get it. [ READ MORE ]

Stuck in 30F

This is the 2nd flight that I’ve been on where GoGoInflight is given me the shaft. 1st time, it wasn’t exactly their fault, but showed how difficult it is to offer a direct to consumer product in a physical ecosystem that you can’t control.  The poor woman was standing in from of a cross continental JFK [ READ MORE ]

Getting in your own way — so frustrating.

This is *extremely* frustrating.  Our FiOS router has been booting our wireless devices off of the network periodically for the past couple of weeks.  Turns out, the router was configured to only allow 5 wireless devices at a time, so as an iTouch came in and out of the network it was kicking the last [ READ MORE ]