• this is how we watch soccer

    It starts at 11:30 AM with an email chain from Paris to DC. It’s my brother asking if the US v. Netherlands friendly will be broadcast live. more

  • september swim

    The beach was largely abandoned now, only a handful of stray surfcasters bothered to come down at this time of day during the last month of the season. more

  • in praise of cassettes

    A road trip reveals fundamental truths about Neil Young and the value of a good cassette tape. more

Category Archives: tech

ipad: it's like a magazine, only, you know, electronic

By David Connell | Published: February 15, 2010
“I believe the iPad will be about sitting in front of the TV whilst watching TV, browsing a ‘magazine’,” McCaffery – whose 2ergo made the apps for The Guardian, Fox News, Arsenal FC and others – told me in an interview. “It will switch on in a second, you’ll be straight in to your content [...]
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like everyone else, I have thoughts on the iPad: it's about creating an ecosystem

By David Connell | Published: January 28, 2010
Like everything Apple makes this seems unimpressive and kind of “I don’t get it” device in its first iteration, by generation three (where we are with the iPhone) everyone will have one or be planning to get one in the next six months. And you’ll also have loads of other companies will be trying to [...]
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Will Your Company Upgrade to Windows 7?

By David Connell | Published: October 22, 2009
According to David Pogue’s largely positive review of Microsoft’s new operating system in this morning’s New York Times probably not. Two statements from Pogue lead me to that conclusion. First: As recently as this summer, at least two-thirds of corporate computers were still running the positively ancient Windows XP. and second: Upgrading from Vista is easy, but upgrading from Windows [...]
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were cassette tapes the perfect music technology?

By David Connell | Published: August 23, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I took a road trip to central Pennsylvania in my old Subaru Legacy wagon equipped with a tape deck and two front speakers. For tunes I brought my iPod (full catalog), iPhone (latest downloads) and a cassette adapter to plug into the headphone jack of both. After listening to to This [...]
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we three links

By David Connell | Published: May 8, 2009
Stereogum’s “Decomposed,” featuring great bands performing in a stripped-down, all acoustic environment. Including The Soft Pack (above).   Mozilla’s Prism liberates web apps from the browser in much the same way Fluid does. But Prism uses Firefox and Fluid uses Safari.  SugarSync lets you share files across computers and devices, but not all files to all devices. Because, [...]
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