Posted by Spencer Hope Davis on Nov 4, 2009 in
Tech Trials 
The Observations from the Road Less Traveled (ORLT) blog is now screen optimized for several popular touch screen based mobile phones.* If you have an iPhone, iTouch, Droid, Blackberry Storm, or MyTouch smartphone, simply point your browser to the home page and you’ll be able to enjoy the site on the go. Read more…
Posted by Spencer Hope Davis on Aug 26, 2009 in
Tech Trials 
Just like our eyes can be too big for our stomachs, our minds can be too busy for our actual lives. How many times have you rented a movie only to have to take it back sight unseen? It’s always aggravated me to rent from Blockbuster and worry about return dates as a movie I was really hot for cooled off on top of the DVD player. Life intervened and I was either too tired, too busy, or not in the right mood for that movie. Redbox came along and I thought I would be able to strike while the mood was hot. Spontaneously pick up a flick, watch it that night and return it for the bargain price of $1.00. Then, the same thing started happening and I was racking up late fees by falling prey to the dreaded “gonna watch it tonight” affliction. That red disc and my account suffered the same Blockbuster fate. Even tried NetFlix, but there was something just shy of OCD that made me anxious seeing DVD envelopes laying around for weeks, waiting to be “watched.” Here’s a solution. Read more…
Tags: Apple, iphone
Posted by Spencer Hope Davis on Apr 29, 2009 in
Tech Trials 
screenshot from Twitter 4/29/09
I was already on Twitter for months when the Ashton Kutcher/CNN follower race began. I shuddered when Demi Moore posted that she was going to be watching when Oprah made her first tweet on the day that Kutcher broke 1 million followers. Could Twitter handle the Oprah effect? You know, the midas touch that she has on everything from books, cookies, to Facebook…. and now Twitter? Read more…
Tags: twitter
