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A few years ago I posted a PDF of the Rawson Family History that was researched and compiled by my great grandmother Ruth Rawson Meng. Over the many migrations of my blog, the PDF was misplaced. I have now replaced it and it is now available again for review. I get Google search hits on my blog daily for people around the world searching for "Rawson family history" so hopefully this will help. Please feel free to write me at crsieg (at) gmail.com if you have any questions.
Google's downfall will result from three fundamental business failures. Failing in any one of these areas is enough to tank a successful business but when all three combine, you have the elements for a spectacular collapse. This article discusses Google's flawed business model and how it is at odds with your right to privacy.
Within the next 5-10 years, I believe that we will see the end of Google as a major player in the technology industry. This is the first article in an 8-part series that I have written analyzing Google's business practices and strategy, and arguing that these will lead to Google's eventual demise. All articles here are my own personal opinion and not related to or endorsed by my company, Renkara Media Group.
I recently wrote a post about how I moved over to Octopress for blogging and I discussed the small difficulty in naming a new post file. It's an inconvenience, really, but as they say: death by 1,000 cuts! To alleviate this, I created a simple Ruby script, based primarily off of the Octopress-included rake task, that creates a new post. More on that script later but I ran into a problem running my script with Alfred.
According to a new article from AppleInsider today, there may be 14 new Mac products next week, most likely to be announced at the WWDC.
Ahu took the boys out to lunch and daddy is doing some catch up work. Sweet.
The iPad is a natural device for kids to play with and learn from. Due to my occupation as an iOS software developer, we always have extra hardware and so my sons have both had their own iPads since roughly 18 months of age. Their iPads are the heavier first-generation iPads with the relatively thick aluminum case. To this date, both iPads have survived intact with rigorous daily use and frequent abuse. Some of my friends have had some bad luck with their children inflicting damage (usually by dropping) on their iPad 2 devices, i.e. a bad drop on a tile floor can result in a shattered display. In fact, I've not heard many great stories about the durability of second and later generation iPads.