Masked bandits

United technology

Just spent 55 minutes on the phone with United resolving an issue with their website that messed up my reservation. To their credit, they DID fix it free of charge, but only after attempting to persuade me to pay hundreds of dollars in change fees 15 times during the call. The old days of true […]

iPhone back with new screen

Sure is nice to have my iPhone back sans shattered screen! Next stop phone store for a case. “Gorilla Glass” is like thin fine china if you bump – yes BUMP, not hit – it on the edge.

Flash v. HTML5

Similar to the old Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle, we now seem to be in the middle of a Flash vs. HTML5 battle for video. The reality is that Flash is riddled with security issues. However, currently most browsers do and extremely poor job of dealing with HTML5 for video playback. I tried embedding a simple […]