I am a cord cutter.  Despite this study which says that cord cutting isn’t happening, it is.  It may not be happening en masse (though I think the proper qualifier here is “yet”), but it is happening.  Though small, this number represents opportunity for content producers that has not been exploited.  It’s being left alone because of the fear it would jeopardizing their existing revenue streams.  I understand why it hasn’t happened, I’m just saying that as a consumer, [...]

I tweeted this a day or two ago, but I’m annoyed by it enough that I’ll post it here.  I’ve recently been the victim of a Blogger to WP migration on another site I help out with, that was not under my control.  Dates were not transferred over correctly, slugs were not duplicated (necessitating manual slug editing on the last 5 years of content), images where not transferred so they’re still coming from somewhere in [...]

Netflix should integrate with Facebook and make recommendations for me for things my “friends” have rated 4 & 5.

I’ve recently become slightly obsessed with the writing of James Altucher.  Brutal honesty, motivation, inspiration, and laughs all in one place.  Well, that and I want to be the luckiest guy on the planet.  He often talks about 4 pillars of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual in order to bring balance to our lives.  There’s a daily practice he recommends that touches on all 4 aspects, and I’m going to try it out. On the [...]

Step 1: Purchase iPad2 for $500 Step 2: Drop on tile floor to shatter screen Step 2a: Sweep up shards of glass off the floor Step 3: Call AppleCare and find out that it’s not covered under warranty since it was broken through “negligence”. Step 4: Decide that Apple’s out of warranty repair option ($300) is too expensive to fix a device that costs $500 brand new. Step 5: Purchase 3rd party touch screen digitizer [...]