technology

Fixing a Broken Badger 5 Plus Insinkerator Garbage Disposal

My Badger 5 Plus garbage disposal seized up a few weeks ago after some mango peels made their way down into the drain. The disposal simply made this humming noise when it was on. It sounded like the motor was going but the blades were not turning. At first, I was ambivalent. “Maybe it will… Continue reading Fixing a Broken Badger 5 Plus Insinkerator Garbage Disposal

World of Warcraft Patches Require Obscene Amounts of Hard Drive Space

I recently wrote a brief paper on World of Warcraft, a game I’ve never played before, for the Service Strategies course I’m taking at Babson. My paper discusses what about Blizzard Software’s functionality with the MMORPG of WoW was innovative or offered a bit of service differentiation. You can read the whole thing here. (pdf)… Continue reading World of Warcraft Patches Require Obscene Amounts of Hard Drive Space

Developing within iPhone NDA Muffle aka The Cone of Silence

Neutrinos just wrapped its second iPhone application, it is a 20 questions trivia game called iQ. It is great step from our first app, TipTotaler. For iQ, I took on the user interface design for the application in addition to my normal website design and marketing. The amount of graphic design and image handling… Continue reading Developing within iPhone NDA Muffle aka The Cone of Silence

iPhone Developer Resource: Preview Application Icon 3D Effect

My friend Dave Peixotto is in charge of coding and software repository work on our iPhone application development. I am in charge of the marketing and business aspects of our software company, Neutrinos, LLC. One of my tasks with the release of our recently submitted iPhone application, TipTotaler was to select an icon for our… Continue reading iPhone Developer Resource: Preview Application Icon 3D Effect

iPhone White Screen / Sleep State Problem

I ditched my Blackberry Curve and picked up an black 16 gigabyte 3g iPhone last week. It had been a great experience so far, with only a handful of complaints. [Note: Since this entry was written, I have been releasing iPhone applications to the iTunes store. You may be interested in checking out our iPhone… Continue reading iPhone White Screen / Sleep State Problem

2008 Boston Marathon, Video of Elite Runners @ Cleveland Circle

The 2008 Boston Marathon was today, and the course went just past the end of my block in Brighton. I’m usually drawn to road races as a spectator, since I’m not in anywhere near the condition to execute on a race like this right now, I get my kicks from cheering on the runners of… Continue reading 2008 Boston Marathon, Video of Elite Runners @ Cleveland Circle

Nationalization or Expropriation? Independent Facebook Application Developers Continue to Face Uncertainty

There is some interesting discussion going on in the Facebook Developer’s forum. The gist is that Facebook has made changes that are causing some developers to feel disenfranchised. A few developers are upset enough that they are speaking of creating a union of independent Facebook application developers. What might the goals of a union of… Continue reading Nationalization or Expropriation? Independent Facebook Application Developers Continue to Face Uncertainty

The History of the Video Game Development Process

The modern software development process is sort of out in the open. Any sizeable project like a new version of Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop is discussed widely in technology forums and blogs. Although beta testers generally sign NDAs with companies, details or full copies of beta software leaks regularly. Google’s Android OS is not… Continue reading The History of the Video Game Development Process

WGA – Writer's Strike and the Cost of New Media

I’ve been watching the Writer’s Guild of America strike with some interest through the reporting from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily since before it went into effect but haven’t had reason to bring it up here until today. In case you aren’t familiar with what’s going on, essentially all of the people who write scripts… Continue reading WGA – Writer's Strike and the Cost of New Media

Winamp 5.5 Update Breaks Last.fm / AudioScrobbler Updating

Audioscrobbler, aka Last.fm is a website that keeps track of your music listening habits. It does this by installing a little pidgeon in your mp3 playing software that flys to the Last.fm server each time you play a song. The results from this is aggregate data on your music listening habits. It is really a… Continue reading Winamp 5.5 Update Breaks Last.fm / AudioScrobbler Updating