Glenn Reid: Thoughts on Software

I spent much of today at a conference in Santa Cruz, CA, on an incredibly beautiful day. I was inside much more than a sane person would ha...

I have some feedback for facebook that I think would be valuable to their product managers and software people. I have no way to get it to t...

I have a new iPad. I'm not usually an early adopter, partly because I've worked in the technology industry a long time and I wait a...

I have a new web hosting service on one of my web sites that insists that I use a password that they call STRONG. They forced me to change...

A friend of mine sent a question to his network on New Year's Eve. He is 38, and I happen to be 48, and his question was this: "I ...

I have a growing, or perhaps surging sense that the single word we need to revive from the past, and embrace, is maintenance. It seems like ...

I have done digital prepress and graphic design software since the beginning of desktop publishing, so I know a thing or two about what it t...

It's really just that I don't like Twitter, but given the recent breaches of security, it seems ill-advised to use the service. Jus...

I just ran across this article in PC world. It's a great summary of how to design software -- succinct and on the mark. Good reading ...

The iPhone seems to insist that you use iPhoto to get your photos out of it. Often that's a fine thing. But on somebody else's com...

I was quoted (not entirely accurately) a couple of days ago in the Wall Street Journal in a story about Apple. I got a surprising amount of...

These stations are right across the street from each other, yet their prices per gallon are $.50 different. There haven't been any cars ...

I have been thinking about magnetism a lot recently. It makes no sense. It is called one of the "Fundamental Forces" which usual...

What a beautiful truck George Wellman has, in his 1950 Dodge Power Wagon, the only existing Campbell-body Woodie PW. Here is a link to som...

Two sides of the same sign, on a church in Traverse City, MI.

I'm sitting in a place called "The Catch" in Traverse City, Michigan. This is a pretty cool town. Tomorrow I pay a visit to Ge...

Sittin' in Starbucks waiting for the bank to open, and I thought I'd try a blogging app on my phone. A good way to use a lot of time...

I recently bought an antique Mack tractor trailer, and in order to be able to drive it, I went to truck driving school . I now have a Califo...

A friend in Australia used the phrase "nuts-and-bolting" to describe what I'm doing now, and I love it: .  There are a surpris...

I bought an iPhone 3G yesterday.  Mostly because I may be doing consulting for a VC firm that likes mobile technologies and I wanted to know...