Tips for searching the Android Market

Google doesn’t have a track record for giving Gmail users an option to sort their emails by column, so it isn’t a big surprise that they don’t help us in that regard when it comes to the Android Market. That’s a shame, because helping people find what they’re looking for is supposed to be their [...]

Burpee’s Spring 2010 TV commercial

Howie and I saw Burpee’s new TV commercial today. It’s a terrific ad! I haven’t gotten around to downloading it and embedding it here, and I can’t find it elsewhere, so just check it out at the link I gave. It depicts a woman wearing a flowing blue dress, strolling through her garden. She kneels [...]

Countdown to Spring!

This winter has been a bear. So much for global warming. I think all the recent snow is beautiful, but I am so glad we haven’t experienced a raging albino crapfest, as James Lileks dubbed such snowstorms on Twitter back in December. Our friends in Frederick, MD are buried after the week’s snowfall and much [...]

The irony of a blond’s password

My friend Larry sent me a funny story today. During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a blond receptionist was using the following password: MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and [...]

Twitter Lists wishlist

I’m so glad to see the lists function coming to Twitter! Maybe with these, I won’t have to use third-party solutions* so much just to manage and filter. That said, I have a observations and suggestions: Let us add list members via a form with auto-complete. Don’t make us slog through pages of people we’re [...]