I think that most of the people that read my blog are probably aware of the effort to convince Google to use Pittsburgh as one of its test cities for residential and commercial fiber connectivity (watch the video above for more details).  I wanted to take a minute to underscore...

For those of you that don’t know, the picture that I normally have as my avatar (the black and white picture of a guy smoking a cigar), is Art Rooney (Link to Wikipedia).  As all Pittsburghers know, Art Rooney started the Steelers on a $2,500 investment.  I’m a big fan...

I was surfing the internet yesterday from Jolly Old England and noticed something interesting.  The paper has started pushing the PG+ a little more aggressively.  The Ed Bouchette column at the bottom of the picture above was only accessible if you had a membership to the PG+.  As you can...

 I’m planning on going on a run through London tomorrow, and am VERY excited.  It will start at the tower bridge and hop home along the river.  I’ll pass the London Eye, Parliament and that factory from the Pink Floyd cover along the way. I’ll also know exactly how...

I covered the reasons that I think the iPad and other such devices are the future in computing, but not the present.  In that post I discussed how HTML 5 and other technologies will allow rich internet applications to make a thin computer just as useful as a thick client....

The food network made a type of potato skin for each of the NFL teams, guess what’s on the Steeler’s.  You got it! As I go through the week, I use Twitter to send out little updates and links.  I realize that I do this quite a bit and that...

“The Computer Industry is the only industry that’s more fashion driven then women’s fashion.” –Larry Ellison Towards the end of last year Larry Ellison sat down for an interview and thoroughly bashed cloud computing.  I’ve included the video, and if you’re a nerd like me you should watch it. Actually...