Things I Like…
May 25th, 2009
Wow, so berate me if you must about my lack of blogging…but…ok I’ve to nothing. No great excuse. We’ll just say that I was on a blogging sabbatical looking for inspiration.
So while I was on this little sabbatical I stumbled across a few things that I think are pretty much the coolest thing since sliced bread.
- iTunes. I know, it’s been around pretty much since the advent of the iPod, but hear me out. It started when I was trying to watch President Obama get sworn in as president in January. Our lovely news channels did such a bang up job of their internet feeds that I wasn’t able to watch it. This lead to my thinking, hey…maybe I can find something on iTunes. Like NPR or something. That led me to stumbling on to NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Normally, well what normal used to be anyway, I loved watching the news when I got home from work. But given my erratic schedule I catch it occasionally at best. I now have iTunes download it for me every morning when I turn on my computer so I can watch/listen to it while I plow through emails and such. And yes, I found the inauguration highlights on iTunes.
- NYTimes.com. Again, nothing new here. However, Columnist Adam Bryant has started a new column that comes out every Sunday in which he conducts a Q & A interview with executives from various different industries. It’s about a 3-5 minute read and very insightful. In my eyes it’s really some basic stuff that you might ask an executive over coffee…if you could sit down with the CEO of say eBay. Here is a link to the series. 2 of my favorites, in this order, are “There’s No Need to Bat .900″ with John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay. The second one is “He Was Promotable, After All” with Robert Iger, the CEO of Disney.
- iTunes…again. I used to be a diehard supporter of Netflix and somewhat still am for the most part. But leave it to Apple to strive towards world domination. While toying around with iTunes one day looking for some music I noticed a little icon for movies, I also vaguely recall reading an article about this along the way. So I checked it out. Sure enough, I could buy or rent pretty much any and every movie I could possible want with the click of a button to my laptop. Now I know what you’re thinking…I want to watch them on my TV, not on my laptop/PC. If you’re like most people you probably have some flat screen TV that takes up the better part of the largest wall in your home…it’s the American way after all. If so, then you only need to buy and HDMI cable and you can hook your laptop up to your TV and have a whole bunch of High Definition goodness straight from the internet.
Until the next time,
Cheers