The New York Times is hosting a series of conferences for IT developers and a hack day, collectively called The TimesOpen:

Last year, NYTimes.com hosted TimesOpen, our first-ever developer conference. It was a fun day and a great way to learn and share ideas about Times APIs ( Read more... )

My new Blackberry Torch arrived yesterday. At first blush, I'm smitten ( Read more... )

I got my new phone today (a Blackberry Torch, as previously mentioned) and one of the side benefits is that text messaging works again! Yay!

People have been joking for a long time that the internet had reached the critical mass such that any porn/erotica you could think of, you could find ( Read more... )

So I'm buying another new phone. My Storm is great except that it stopped getting or sending SMS messages and I've run out of things to try to fix it. Therefore, next Friday I'll be heading out to buy a Torch (one review here). Besides the various tech improvements (5MP camera! wi-fi! 3G!), not to mention a slide-out physical keyboard, it'll be ( Read more... )

Word to the wise: never give any payment information to spacebagstogo.com (and presumably their sister site, spacebags.com, is also dangerous ( Read more... )

I'm investigating web cams for work. No, not that kind of work ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I discovered that there's a Kindle app for Blackberry Storms. Yay! I was getting frustrated with the limited selection of books available in Mobipocket format, and also with their buggy purchasing system.

I dived into a trilogy recommended to me, Jo Walton's Small Change series. Book One -- pretty interesting. Book Two -- ( Read more... )

I often find that when I'm thinking about something while I'm not at a computer, my musing will suddenly be interrupted by a search query. Like this: "Hm, I wonder what I should do with the bathroom floor. Fancy tiles are so expensive...oh, maybe I could get plain, white tiles and then some kind of fancy grout...like maybe something metallic or ( Read more... )

Do we have anybody on the inside at AT&T Mobile tech support? I'm totally frustrated with the fact that my phone is SMS-disabled, and I've exhausted my options for fixing it by myself. I think I need someone at AT&T to disable and re-enable the SMS service. I tried going through official channels but got shut down because my phone is an unlocked ( Read more... )