Apple Music and My Subscription Math Problem
Apple announced Apple Music pricing at WWDC this week, and doing the math against my existing Spotify family plan has turned into an embarrassing accounting exercise.
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The Little Windows Flag in My Tray
A weird little flag icon showed up in my system tray last week. Turns out its Microsoft reserving your free Windows 10 upgrade, and I have some thoughts about that (plus a Fallout 4 tangent).
Dumping My Photo Hoard Into Google Photos
Google Photos went unlimited and free this week at I/O, so I spent Friday night dumping fourteen thousand hoarded photos into it — and thinking about why that makes me nervous anyway.
What Happens to Your Library When the Site Dies
Three weeks after Grooveshark shut down for good, I'm still mad about the library I lost and what it says about renting your music instead of owning it.
Powerwall Math for People Who Rent
Doing late-night math on whether a Tesla Powerwall makes sense for a renter, plus a tangent about Age of Ultron's rogue-AI plot and why that story never seems to change anything.
Ultron, May the Fourth, and a Battery I Can't Even Plug In
A weekend of Age of Ultron, an unplanned May the Fourth marathon, and some idle math about whether a Tesla Powerwall would even fit in my apartment.
The Watch Shipped Today, I Was Fixing My Sidebar
Apple Watch shipped to actual customers today, but I spent launch day fixing my own blog's broken mobile CSS after Google's mobile-friendly update, plus some Pebble-battery-fatigue skepticism.
Five Days Until Mobilegeddon and My Site Just Failed
Google's mobile-friendly ranking update lands in five days and my own site just failed the test. Notes on fixing a three-year-old WordPress theme before Mobilegeddon hits.
My First Weekend With HBO Now
I finally tried HBO Now for the Game of Thrones season 5 premiere instead of turning on cable, and it mostly worked, minus the iTunes billing mess and the fact that piracy is still easier.
I Stayed Up For a Watch I Didn't Buy
I stayed up until 3am to watch Apple Watch preorders open, didn't buy one, and watched the shipping estimates slide to June in under an hour.
Playing Pac-Man on My Own Street
Playing Google's Pac-Man April Fools joke on my own street, and a grumbly aside about GitHub getting hammered by a DDoS attack all week.
Spring Forward, Twice
Daylight saving stole an hour of sleep the same weekend Apple's naming its event "Spring Forward" — some notes on clocks that never get fixed, a smartwatch I don't want, and the curved screen everyone at MWC was suddenly obsessed with.