Tag Archives: oliver starr

iPhone Phones Home, Tells Everything

Posted on December 20, 2008 by admin

Caveat: I am not a developer so what I am about to reveal may or may not be news to the developer community.  Nevertheless, this is not something that I was aware of previously and I have not seen any … Continue reading →

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Is Foldera Unfolding?

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Oliver

Some of you might remember Foldera (FDRA).  The company enjoyed a brief moment of prominence and seemed poised to be a Web 2.0 darling that was breaking the rules and suceeding brilliantly.  So charmed was the company that at one … Continue reading →

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Prepare to Be Amazed: Blind Piano Prodigy is Just 5 Years Old (video)

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Oliver

If you haven’t seen this video before you are likely going to find it difficult to believe what you are seeing.  This little girl from South Korea who has been blind since birth makes her debut on a South Korean … Continue reading →

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Floyd Landis and the Magic Water Bottle: Part III

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Oliver

Editor’s Note: Here’s the long-awaited third installment to my series on Floyd Landis and his epic Tour de France and subsequent doping controversy. While I don’t claim to have all the answers, I do have a unique perspective that is … Continue reading →

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Hancock: a Departure for Me, a Review for You

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Oliver

I’m not a guy that’s driven to review movies. Generally speaking, I figure that my taste and my opinion don’t matter much to other folks when it comes to cinema; and when you consider that I’ve lived in LA for … Continue reading →

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CAS Refuses to Hear Landis Appeal. Positive Doping Verdict Upheld.

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Oliver

So ends one of the most ludicrous, unfair, illegitimate and biased trials in the history of professional sport. According to CNN, a three person committee meeting in Lausanne Switzerland has issued a 58 page ruling denying Floyd’s request to be … Continue reading →

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The McCain – RomneyPalin Comedy: Year 3

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Oliver

Today’s unprecedented announcements have lead to mass chaos here in the United States. At this point it is uncertain if a Federal state of emergency will be announced or not, particularly in the former state of California where no one … Continue reading →

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Dear GoDaddy, Signed “a Loyal but Annoyed Customer”

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Oliver

Bright and early this morning my email managed to do something that I’m sure everyone’s email does on occasion; it pissed me off. The culprit this beautiful Saturday was the following notice from the domain registrar GoDaddy. (I have truncated … Continue reading →

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Joikuspot Launches New Mapspot Service.

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Oliver

The folks at Joiku, the company that has developed the revolutionary Joikuspot software that lets you turn your Symbian Series 60 device into a mobile wi-fi hotspot have done it again. This time they’ve built on their Joikuspot platform by … Continue reading →

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Is OLPC a Fraud?

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Oliver

Back in December of 2007 I took OLPC – the One Laptop Per Child project up on it’s special year-end offer. This offer included two laptops: one which would be donated to a country in need of the devices to … Continue reading →

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