Month: August 2011

Update at bottom. I’m trying to contact my 84-year old Dad who lives in Windham NY, the town apparently hit hardest by Irene’s flooding. The Main Street is described as “wiped out.” This is the town in which I grew up. My father lives alone on a hill above where the…

Reader Henrikaavik points us to a new Estonian-built anti-corruption app that is very much what I described in my previous post. Check it out at http://www.bribespot.com/ [no longer available]. Can it change the world? Maybe. Citizens are rising up against their governments in an interesting variety of ways. We’re seeing everything…

Background: In a recent post I complained about both my old iPhone 3GS and my new Android phone. Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone Apps challenged me to test a Windows phone. If I didn’t like it better than the iPhone and the Android, he would donate $1,000 to…