Amazon Kindle for Blackberry – Two Weeks Later
March 4, 2010 – 8:08 pm | No Comment

I definitely had some challenges getting the Amazon Kindle application for my Blackberry Storm2 downloaded and installed. However, since getting the application downloaded, I have had zero problems with it. …

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Amazon’s Blackberry Kindle Reader Download Problems
February 18, 2010 – 8:03 pm | 2 Comments

I read my e-mail this morning and found a message that Amazon released their Kindle reader for BlackBerry devices. I have been looking forward to this software release for the last few months. I eagerly clicked on the download link on my BlackBerry Storm2 and waited. I knew it would be slow as many people would be doing the same thing this morning. When the web page timed out, I simply clicked on it again, and again, and again, and again. Well OK maybe I just needed to wait until lunch time.

While having lunch with some colleagues today, I had my hand tapping the download link every minute or two, but to no avail. Timeout after timeout was all that greeted me. A little frustration was beginning to build. Before I left the office parking lot to head home, I tried a few more times. When I was stopped on the freeway several times, as is the ritual of the afternoon commute, I tied again. No luck whatsoever today; I am glad I am not heading out to Vegas anytime soon.

Tonight my luck has not improved, and now I am really glad that I am not going to Vegas. I must have clicked that download link a hundred times or more, but all I get is the browser scoffing back at me with more timeouts.

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Reminding Me Why I Do It
February 4, 2010 – 7:01 pm | One Comment
Reminding Me Why I Do It

Sometimes I just get it, and this is one of these times. All the pressures of life mount and mount with work, family, school, career, finance, etc.; it’s enough to sap the soul out of anyone. …

Keeping Your Professional Skills Current…Or Else
January 13, 2010 – 6:52 pm | One Comment
Keeping Your Professional Skills Current…Or Else

My gosh there are a lot of people out of work right now and many of them are looking forward to taking your job right out from under you. Not a very pleasant thought when …

Teaching the new media ways
January 11, 2010 – 9:44 pm | No Comment
Teaching the new media ways

When does education stifle or retard technical and usage innovation? I am not sure, but it is something that I have been thinking more about over the past several months. The United States has been …

Is Your Company Getting the Computer Support That You Deserve?
December 21, 2009 – 8:32 pm | One Comment
Is Your Company Getting the Computer Support That You Deserve?

By Jason Lydford
Its amazing just how many so called IT support companies are out there right now. It seems as though anyone with access to a computer at home can suddenly call themselves an IT …