I still love my MacBook, even though it’s developed a case of screen rot. I don’t regret switching to Mac as my primary computing platform, but let’s face it, Macs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Macs hardware is elegant, but in...
I read today’s op-ed piece in the New York Times by former Microsoft vice president Dick Brass today with great interest. Entitled “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction,” the piece argues that Microsoft has created a “dysfunctional corporate...
Although I’ve been blogging regularly over at Patell and Waterman’s History of New York over the past few months, I’ve been on hiatus here. But now that the year has officially begun its second half and my summer graduate class on the American novel...
I acquired a Dell Mini 9 netbook very soon after it was released last fall. My HP Tablet was feeling heavy, and I wanted something that I could carry around more easily. I’d been checking out the various ASUS Eee PCs, but I decided to go with the Dell because of...
