Cynthia

Pondicherrypie

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:15:25 +0000

So I'm sitting in my office, quietly coding some Flash Actionscript, headphones on, music blasting...when I hear a distant rumble. Or maybe I feel it, in the soles of my shoes. I look up, and there...

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Cupcake 2.0

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:30:28 +0000

Now, listen, I LIKE cupcakes, don't get me wrong. What's not to like? They're cake. They're frosting. They're portable. Portion-controlled creamy-sweet goodness you can stick in a lunchbox. With...

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Device wars

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:00:02 +0000

Apparently there IS such a thing as having too many gadgets, and I'm there. I'm a huge fan of wireless, if only because it reduces the mass of cable snaking through my office.* Of course, the number...

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Get out of jail free card

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:35:07 +0000

Yowza. US copyright protections just got a LOT more interesting for tech and iPhone folk, thanks to the Library of Congress. For those of you who don't know, LoC is a key arbiter in US copyright...

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Beaverton Farmers Market

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:49:54 +0000

Can you tell I FINALLY had a free Saturday for the farmers' market? Whew. I thought I was gonna get stuck eating grocery store produce for the whole summer. And, of course, as soon as I got them...

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Search discrimination

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:19:13 +0000

"All web search engines give identical results, so there's really no reason to use anything but Google." I was participating in a "web for artists" seminar, and that declaration came from a fellow...

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Berry red, berry blue

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:12:46 +0000

"If you'll take the whole flat you can have it for $10," the berrylady said, pointing to gorgeous heaps of blackberries. I'd come late to the Portland Farmers' Market AGAIN--I keep having early...

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Derrick the Droid

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:56:36 +0000

“Uhm, Cynthia, you know how I said you’d be getting a Droid X on Friday?” the voice on the phone was tentative, “Well, demand is a leeeetle higher than we anticipated. It...

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Moods and studios and berries

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:07:20 +0000

There are moods in which you write, and moods in which you're glad you wrote yesterday. I'm in the latter, not because I can think of nothing to write about, but rather because there's so much it's...

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The rubber met the road…

Cynthia Morgan (Morganica) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:01:06 +0000

...and got skid marks all over its butt. Sorry for the vulgarism, but I'm watching the whole iPhone thing and thinking "whoa--now THAT'S a crash." The Wall St. Journal just reported that Consumer...

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