Month: February 2007

  • iPod audio gettin’ better all the time

    I’ve been Turkmen-bashing Apple here a lot (just read the most hilarious obit for Saparmurat Niyazov) for not yet having released a Vista-compatible iTunes. I can’t decide if it’s out of what I suspect is pique at Microsoft having shipped an OS that’s so Mac-like or, more probably, if it’s being a big, slow and…

  • Apple: I’m in freakin’ agony, OK? You’ve made your point.

    Hello, Apple? Could you please please pretty please ship the freakin’ update of iTunes for Windows Vista? I know — I just know — you have the thing finished. After all, if nearly everybody else could have their products somewhat ready for Vista, couldn’t you? I mean you own the whole MP3 marketplace, right? Surely someone…

  • After being a yuppie…I got a BMW and an HDTV

    Just when you think you’ve outgrown all sense of fashion, peer pressure and have resigned yourself to your own middle-aged individuality, along comes a jolting reminder than your cohort’s tastes may change, but the pressure to conform doesn’t. I was scanning a newsletter for a client and ran across this amazing story: BMW owners love…

  • Major league antitussive

    A cold that I brought back from Europe resulted this week in a cough nasty enough to remind me of the incessant hacking, phlegm-ing and general mucous-ness of a smoker I once had the misfortune to sit across from. Yech. But in the “better living through chemistry” department: my doctor gave me a prescription to…

  • Apple + DRM = doubleplusgood

    I know that in the torrent of comment, wailing and teeth-gnashing the blogosphere, podosphere and ipodo-universe will generate about Steve Job’s comments on digital-rights management, my little post here will live in obscurity. Still, I can’t help myself: I’m blue in the face with envy…Envy of Apple’s marketing brilliance. And the power they have to…

  • How to be bush league

    Every now and then, even the best of us does really stupid stuff. Thursday, February 1 was my day. I was headed home from Paris after a good set of meetings…all I had to do was get to the airport on time. We were booked on Air France 332, leaving CDG at 1:15pm. The instructions…