DecisionSpaces taking registrations for private beta

I’ve been pretty quiet about the project I’m currently working on, but that’s going to change now that we’re heading towards the beginning of our private beta program.
I’m currently working with a group of wickedly smart people to build a new hosted (yes, SaaS-based) collaborative decision making platform: DecisionSpaces.
What does DecisionSpaces do?  There are [...]

The pay-as-you-go model for home computing

Two news items caught my attention in the news recently: RadioShack selling a $99 Netbook PC (which ultimately costs over $1,400 when you factor in the 2-year AT&T data contract), and Microsoft recently publishing a patent for a pay-as-you-go home PC.
The price of home computers has dropped significantly.  It’s now cheaper than ever to [...]

XB360 101: Moving Xbox 360 saved games from a 20gb drive to a 60gb drive

Everyone who’s owned an Xbox 360 for a period of time is probably at least somewhat familiar, perhaps even intimately familiar, with the dreaded red ring of death, or RRoD as it’s more commonly known.  My first two Xbox 360s experienced that fate.  The first one died after 6 months, but thankfully Costco’s liberal [...]

Coming back from vacation is always difficult

I had promised earlier this month that I would try to keep up the posts to a minimum of once per weekday.  I’ve subsequently broken that promise by taking a few days off for the holidays.  But I am back, and will return to blogging once a day (at minimum), and hopefully even through [...]