I listened to Anthony Flint’ TEDxBeaconStreet session on: Housing the Coming Billions in Cities. Overall it was an very interesting presentation! One thing in it it was a chart of the Top 21 Cities in 2025. This made me think, which are the top 21 cities today, and how much will the positions change between now and … Continue Reading →
Visualizing BIG numbers…
I just listened to Chris Jordan’s TED presentation: Turning powerful stats into art. The presentation is very good, but one particular item kind of stuck with me… How many papercups does our society use servicing hot beverages per day ? 40 Million cups! That does not sound like much until one begins to *visualize … Continue Reading →
Theme Change 2013
Got tired of tweaking and fighting with the now officially retired iNove theme, so a new theme is emerging on this site… My requirements for this site are very simple. Pick something that is not retired. Clean and simple. Fixed with. 2 columns for regular posts. Ability to use custom menus Top Banner can be … Continue Reading →
US Deficit Keeps Going Up
In the last week or so a number of news have come out regarding how the state of the U.S. economy is getting a bit better. As far as I can see, this is mostly measured by the stock market, housing values and general consumer confidence. On the surface, this is very good news for … Continue Reading →
Bits and pieces week ending 2013-01-26
A couple of pieces of news that really made me go “hmmm” this week are: Microsoft will stop the Windows 8 reduce price offer and will go from $40 dollars to $199 starting Feb 1. – I knew this was coming, but I was secretly wishing it would not. At the same time, why do … Continue Reading →
Ethernet over the power outlet
I was skeptical at first, but I must say – I am very impressed. My house is 40+ years old and has not been retrofitted to allow for the modern Internet wiring. Like most folks out there, I have ran wires thru the ceiling, drilled new holes in the walls and still have one or … Continue Reading →
Are things getting smaller?
I am not sure if it is only in my area, but have you noticed products come in the same size packages, but have more packaging, and less product inside ? I have noticed this in crackers (Saltines), honey graham cookies, aspirin, vitamins, and many other products out there… The latest, and what prompted me … Continue Reading →
iNove Theme Change to Support Custom Menu
Like so many out there, I have been using the iNove v1.4.6 (by mg12) theme forever! It has been very stable, reliable and I’ve gotten used to it. I like it a lot.. I try to stick to “out of box” and make no modifications to the theme files, but one thing has bug me … Continue Reading →
Tweets for December 2012
My Twitter tweets (@jorper98) for above mentioned period follow: 2012-12-31 01:16:20 Top Five Mobility Lessons Learned In 2012 For CIOs http://t.co/etjRIdYG 2012-12-28 17:20:47 Google News Crumbles, And More 2013 Media Predictions http://t.co/bXHlLyus 2012-12-20 18:33:17 Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation | Video on http://t.co/nkzFgECe http://t.co/vQUY546y 2012-12-20 17:13:34 The importance of the 140 character mission statement http://t.co/ky1BSHhh 2012-12-20 17:08:40 Twitter allows users to … Continue Reading →
Android / iOS Platform OS version targeting
From a development point of view it is interesting to see the difference between the Android and iOS versions needed to be supported… While researching, I ran into an October 2012 article on dazeinfo.coma which mentions that while iOS 6 Adoption Rate is about 60% iPhones Updated To iOS 6 vs. about 2% of Android … Continue Reading →
