Gordon's Notes

I'm staying at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel for the Strata 2012 conference. It has some good features, but, for a geek, it has a problem. T...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of the GOP presidential primary, people who'd prefer to vote GOP are advocating third party equi...

We have three children in the St Paul MN public school system. It's an urban public school system, but statistically above average. We ...

I'll be in Santa Clara CA next week (2/27-3/2) attending the  Making Data Work: Strata 2012 - O'Reilly Conference . I believe this...

These are interesting times for our home IT strategy. Recent Apple changes are accelerating the demise of the general purpose computer in wa...

It hurts me to read blogs or editorials written by 2012 Republicans. Oddly enough people like Santorum don't bother me as much as the R...

At this point, I wonder if a significant number of establishment Republicans in Congress are going to covertly vote for Obama: How The GO...

Two hours after I berate Apple for being unable to do basic maintenance on OS X and their core apps (ex: generations of worthless and uncha...

iMovie HD/iMovie. iPhoto/Aperture . OS X Lion . Final Cut Pro/FCPX . By Darwin, Apple has screwed up a lot of Mac software products over the...

Eight years after my last effort to digitize our home analog video, I discover digital home video is still a mess . I also learn that Final ...

A copyright troll claims ownership in China of a brand Apple thought it had bought from the original company ... in Taiwan. Chinese IP law ...

Reading 9th grade world history  as an adult I read over the names of the wicked and the great. I round years to centuries, and nations to r...

iPhoto is dying. That much is clear. iPhoto 11's launch bug problems followed the pattern of the  past decade . Unlike past releases t...

One of my weekly pleasures is writing up adapted history notes for a special needs high school student. I love doing it; his 9th grade histo...

When the NYT's  NYT's Tedeschi admitted to me that he'd missed the boat on iOS Parental Controls I was hoping for a correction ...