Once again this year, I tried and failed to get a usable photo of the Perseid meteor shower. I’m not sure if I need to learn my camera settings better or if night sky shots are just not feasible on a compact digital camera without a bulb-mode for shutter control.
It wasn’t all a wash on [...]

This morning Apple held a rather unique press conference to address the growing controversy over the reception problems caused by the iPhone 4’s external antenna. I’ve been following the antenna issue for a while, but I hadn’t really planned on posting anything about it until I saw Michael remark that the press conference was ‘PR [...]

Yesterday the Washington Post published an article on an FDA initiative to limit the amount of salt that could be put in food. This is an interesting policy issue, but it’s not what I want to talk about here. I actually just want to talk about one line from the Post’s article that acted as [...]