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a blog by jason berberich

The Blues Brothers

Having decided that our boys don’t have enough things that induce parental annoyance, when I saw this kids harmonica being offered during last week’s Woot-Off, I just knew I had to snag one.

Since I forgot about the thing immediately after ordering it, I was delighted to see that the mail lady delivered it yesterday afternoon. And […]

BIG Plans

Every couple of weekends, the four year old and I make a trip to the library to pick out a fresh batch of books while his little brother stays at home with mom for an afternoon nap. Yesterday, we came back with about two dozen new books for bedtime reading.

It turns out that I’m a […]

iMeh: A Few Quick Thoughts on the Apple iPad

I’m reluctant to add to the already noisy Apple iPad discussion, but I wanted to follow up on yesterday’s post while the thoughts are still fresh in my mind.

The Problem with Tablets

With just a day left until Apple’s special event the company scheduled for January 27th, speculation on the expected-to-be-announced Apple Tablet (or whatever the official name turns out to be) has reached a fevered pitch. I don’t think any rumored Apple product — iPhone included — has garnered so much coverage by bloggers and the […]

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Merry Christmas, 2009 Edition

The Berberich family hopes you had a great 2009, and wishes you the very best in 2010!

Like all of our Christmas cards, this one was done by my sister, Tera Christianson, of Blessings Photography.

The View From My Window

I’ve been a regular reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog for a few years now. His political analysis is top-notch, and I find Andrew’s discussion with readers to be consistently thought-provoking in a way I rarely see on other blogs (here’s a brilliant example from today).

One of the daily diversions Sullivan has incorporated into his site is what he […]

Google Public DNS and FUD

Yesterday Google announced the release of Google Public DNS, the company’s free domain name resolution service (if you’re unfamiliar with DNS, it’s the system that translates the human-friendly google.com domain to the computer-friendly 74.125.53.100). This news came as a surprise to everyone, and has generated a ton of coverage by technology bloggers and journalists as a result. […]

TweetGenius vs Seesmic for BlackBerry

Late last week, Seesmic released new Twitter client applications for Android and BlackBerry. Since I’m currently a happy user of TweetGenius on my BlackBerry Tour 9630, I thought I’d do a quick comparison.

It’s worth noting that the version of Seesmic for BlackBerry I’m showing you is currently an Alpha release, so it’s still buggy and incomplete. […]

Frictionless Personal Data Collection with your.flowingdata

I really like the idea of these diet/fitness journal websites that let you track your weight, exercises, and food/calorie intake. Lots of other people must too, because if you do a quick search, you’ll see hundreds of software tools that promise to help you accomplish these tasks. If you’re a data nerd like me, the […]

Quicken Online and Mint

A few weeks ago, online personal finance site Mint announced that it was being acquired by its main competitor, Intuit (maker of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax). Since then, the online discussion around the deal has centered on two topics:

Whether Mint “sold out” by cashing out early instead of building the business […]