I received a voicemail at 2:23 PM today (November 3, 2009 — election day) encouraging me to vote for Tom Menino for mayor of Boston. Not unusual on election day, right? Right, except that it asked me to vote tomorrow, not today. I don’t know if this is a case of computer/operator error or a [...]
Two big tech glitches happened last night: The TurboTax servers went down hours before tax returns were due. The main servers for BlackBerry email went offline. According to a spokesperson for TurboTax maker Intuit, Yesterday was a huge volume day for our back-end electronic filing. As a result, we had a significant slowdown in our [...]
The Boston NOW paper I mentioned before was launched this morning, and I’m in it twice. There’s a blurb about the Museum’s podcast and a callout box on the page of Boston Marathon coverage featuring the latest Boston Behind the Scenes. I wanted to see if this would convince people to go to my website, [...]
Google has just launched Google Voice Local Search, and experimental phone-based search system. According to the website: Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone. To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone. Using this service, you can: search for a local business by [...]
Yesterday, Apple announced that 100 million iPods have been sold since the release of the original 5GB iPod on November 10th, 2001. That’s an average of 50,607 per day (or a bit better than one every two seconds). For comparison, Sony sold about 150 million Walkman cassette players between 1979 and 1995 (when they started [...]
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my Vice President had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol’ days. – President Bush, at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner Watch him (badly) tell jokes someone else so obviously wrote below: [...]
This BBC story from Wednesday is pretty disturbing. The city of Middlesbrough has installed talking CCTV cameras to curb “antisocial behavior.” Camera operators can talk to people on the street, scolding them for littering, fighting, or other offenses. You know what that reminds me of? The instructress had called them to attention again. ‘And now [...]
I have to keep up with the news for my job. At the same time, I like to know what news everyone else is keeping up with. My favorite tool for this is the Yahoo! list of most popular news stories. This feature puts the news stories, columns, and pictures that people click the most [...]
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