TechpadinPersonal Six Sentences From Tim Cook, Read Live on CNBC Amid today's brutal market open, Tim Cook broke the CEO playbook and emailed Jim Cramer directly to say Apple's China business was fine. That, not the Dow's closing number, was the actual story. August 24, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Perseids, a Bad Floodlight, and a Cold Thermos of Coffee A late night in the backyard for the Perseid meteor shower peak, a neighbor's terrible floodlight, and a couple weeks of living with Windows 10. August 12, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Holding Out Against the Windows 10 Icon I held out against the Windows 10 nag icon for six weeks. Notes on the privacy toggles, the Start menu redemption arc, and why Solitaire of all things now has a subscription fee. August 6, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Windows 10 Upgrade Weekend Notes from a weekend spent upgrading to Windows 10: the good Start menu, a printer driver headache, and digging through privacy settings that default to sharing more than I'd like. August 3, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Four Days With Windows 10 (And Turning Off Wi-Fi Sense) Four days into Windows 10 on my old Dell laptop: the Start menu is back, Edge is a ghost town, and Wi-Fi Sense wants to share your router password with your contacts by default. August 2, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Three Days In With Windows 10, and the Settings I Almost Missed I spent the weekend upgrading an old ThinkPad to Windows 10, and the privacy settings buried three menus deep turned out to be the part nobody's launch-day post mentioned. August 1, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The GWX Icon Finally Did Something A late-night account of upgrading to Windows 10 the moment it unlocked, the Start menu's return, and one real complaint about forced updates on Home edition. July 31, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Car Is Too Dumb to Get Hacked The Jeep hacking story and Chrysler's 1.4 million vehicle recall have me feeling smug about my dumb old Civic, plus a tangent on whether I'll upgrade to Windows 10 the second it drops tomorrow. July 28, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Reserved My Windows 10 Upgrade I finally clicked reserve on that little Get Windows 10 icon, and a few thoughts on the Insider builds I've been running for months, plus a small rant about email confirmation delays. June 29, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Finally Backed Shenmue III (And I Have Feelings About It) Ten days after Yu Suzuki announced Shenmue III onstage at E3, I finally caved and backed the Kickstarter — some thoughts on nostalgia, nostalgia-tax, and my Dreamcast still sitting in a closet. June 26, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Shenmue 3 Broke Kickstarter and I Have Feelings About It Shenmue 3 got Kickstarted at E3 this week and blew past its goal in hours. Some thoughts on that, a broken Dreamcast, and why fan money isnt the same as a guarantee. June 20, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fallout Shelter Ate My E3 Week E3 is happening right now, but between Nintendo's Digital Event and Sony's big reveals, the thing that actually ate my week was Bethesda's surprise free iOS game. June 17, 2015·3 min read
