Didn’t know my native island of Puerto Rico is a coffee-growing region? Well, now you do.
My wife and I sampled some of these during a marathon AeroPress-ing session at the home of good friends (one of whom is #boricua). More …
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My passions detailed in Magazine
(Note: This essay originally was published in The Magazine, the iOS-based e-magazine created by Marco Arment and edited by Glenn Fleishman.)
The quenepa is a tree-grown fruit found in a gigantic swath of the tropics: From Florida to Mexico it grows, and across the Caribbean and Central and South America. It is my favorite fruit, by far, because it is a bit like candy. More …
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I talk Office 360 on WCCO radio
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Microsoft Office for consumers is now available in subscription form. I discussed this development with WCCO-AM’s John Hines.
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I talk BlackBerry on WCCO radio
Research in Motion, now called BlackBerry, has two new phones. I discussed this with WCCO-AM’s Roshini Rajkumar.
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I talk RIM on Tech News Today
I was on TWiT’s Tech News Today.
The big tech story of the day: Research In Motion rebranding itself as BlackBerry and unveiling two smartphones running the new BlackBerry 10 operating system.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Soucheray and I discuss Glass
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I joined Pioneer Press colleague and Garage Logic celebrity Joe Soucheray on 1500 ESPN radio to talk about Project Glass, Google’s much-ballyhooed foray into wearable computing.
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Laporte apologizes; no need!
I got annoyed with famed TWiT tech podcaster Leo Laporte last month when he talked about newspapers on Windows Weekly … and said he wondered if they still assembled pages manually, using paper and wax glue.
Was he serious?
I was sure he was (he sounded it), and I fired off an angry e-mail to him. It later dawned on me that Leo likely wouldn’t believe anything so preposterous given his ties to leading journalists like Jeff Jarvis (co-host of TWiT’s This Week in Google). More …
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Crazy-cool tech at Microsoft
I had forgotten all about (and never posted) these 2012 images of an experimental three-monitor computer-chair contraption at Microsoft’s Minnesota HQ.
It looks kind of like a ‘Star Wars’ Destroyer Droid, doesn’t it? More …
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Man, Minnesota is crazy-cold
What a nice day … to not venture outside under any circumstances. It isn’t supposed to get about -3º (that’s Fahrenheit, boys and girls) all day. More …
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An iPad stand to use on planes
I shot this video of a clever new iPad stand for use in airliner cabins. It’s the brainchild of a St. Paul tech entrepreneur.
More info here.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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