Archive for the 'Tech' Category

Google for Elkhart

March 24th, 2010

I just nominated our county for the Google Fiber project as well as signed up as a business. Here’s the website if you’re local with info on the whole project: Elkhart is one of the counties hit hardest by the economic downturn. The residents of the county have endured layoffs and encountered difficulty finding new [...]

The Death of Flash?

March 10th, 2010

With all the buzz about IE6 dying, I’d like to throw this out there. Adobe Flash is dying too. What or who is killing it off? HTML5. It’ll be a couple years though, Flash does enjoy over 99% market penetration, after all. But Apple’s continuing decision to not support Flash on their mobile devices (iPod [...]

Debased prose

January 30th, 2010

From time to time in various fields, people proclaim the death of this or that because of technological change. The current favorites seem to be journalism and literacy/writing. Oh, woe is us. We are doomed, technology killed everything beautiful and wonderful in our lives. My career revolves around technology: I love pondering the dangers and [...]

No more LCDs? cont’d

January 25th, 2010

This just out today on DigitalSignageToday: In an article on triplepundit.com, writer Kathryn Siranosian looks at Laser Phosphor Display technology recently released by Prysm. The company’ CEO, Roger Hajjar says that the new LPD technology has the lowest cost of ownership and smallest carbon footprint of any large format display currently on the market. Furthermore, [...]