2006 February 13

Hey, look at that… you've taken 15 digital photos of the same thing – but 8 of them are blurry, and 2 of them aren't centered. Why do you insist on holding onto all 15 of those digital images? For all intents and purposes, you've taken 5 good photos that are incredibly similar to one another. I realize you have gigabytes of space, but that doesn't mean you should hold onto everything that scoots across your hard drive. Normally, I wouldn't bring this scenario to the surface, but Jason Dunn has posted a few digital media thoughts on purposefully deleting your digital photos. Admittedly, I don't take as many photos as I could or should anymore; we spent the weekend in Vancouver, and the only image I remember capturing was a video of someone's mom – which I'll be posting here in a few minutes. To me, I'd rather the photographer pare down the selection and show me the best of the best (according to him or her), rather than having to comb through countless images that are blatantly similar.

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Jeff Sandquist joins for a very liquid conversation that flows from a Devil with a Blue Dress trying to steal the show’s theme song, to Chris’s plans to buy a new computer, to getting a job working with Robert Scoble. This is like the candid conversation before the show, only in this case, it is the show. Chris wants to know what’s for dinner but Ponzi is keeping the details under NDA. More to come in the second hour.

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I suffer from gadget envy. What holds me back from buying everything under the sun? Space, by and large – I don't have enough of it. I usuually don't buy one gizmo without knowing I'm fully replacing another (and not just making a lateral sidegrade). This is why CES is so difficult for me to digest. I see that my current suite of sweet tools aren't as hot as they once were. Who knew dot matrix printers were already out of date?! I hear the Bluth Company still uses 'em.
Like any red-blooded geek would do, I watched the Web in the weeks following the wave of CES launches and announcements. One product that stood out from the rest was a new business-class device called the DualCor. Actually, the DualCor is perfect for power users, too – but the enterprise is where most money is made. This is not the OQO, and it's certainly not one of those new LifeStyle PCs we'll be hearing more about soon. Any hardware aficionado will come to that conclusion quickly after running down the list of DualCor's features.
Before Greg Hughes announced that he was invited to a very private BETA (Board of Expert Technical Advisors), I was connected with DualCor's CEO, Steve Hanley – through Greg Hughes, as luck would have it. After a lengthy conversation, I enthusiastically accepted the invitation to join the BETA – finding no easier way of getting QA feedback into the hands of decision makers and developers. I've grown frustrated with the choices presented to me; OEMs cut corners and make sloppy design decisions that cost users more than money. In sitting on the DualCor tech advisory board, I'll have a true chance to influence a product that's already making people jealous.
I guess this will be my first Tablet PC (as well as the first Tablet PC / Windows Mobile hybrid ever produced). I've been dying to try the Tablet PC Ink Explorer.

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We posted Ponzi's Credit Report Tips the other day, and they seemed to go over pretty well (based on the Free Credit Report entry)…

1. There are three credit agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion), and you can get one free report from each, per year. Only pull from one bureau every three months – and you can check up on your account regularly without having to pay for the yearly fee most agencies want to charge to “watch” your accounts.

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