Linket gets a 5th patent — for streaming apps

Recently the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) sent Linket a Notice of…

Crypto Dying in Los Angeles

September 2018 I wrote an article about the state of cryptocurrency in Los Angeles. It looked at the crypto groups on Meetup.com that had shut down. An empirical measure of crypto’s appeal.

Sometimes you just have to rebrand. A technique in nuclear magnetic spectroscopy was called Proton-Induced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy (PENIS). But the nature of the acronym ensured that it never caught on. It was swiftly renamed Cross Polarisation (CP).

“An URL” and not “a URL”

Do you say “an URL” or “a URL”? If you search online, most recommendations are for “a URL”. I hope to convince you that “an URL” is legit and better.

First. It depends how you say URL. If you pronounce it ‘you arrr ell’, then yes ‘a URL’ is correct. But the other way to say…

Yahoo!! Wept

This week we heard the news that Tumblr was sold by Verizon for a derisory $3 million. It was bought a few years ago by Yahoo for $1 billion. Then Yahoo sold itself to Verizon, which has now dumped Tumblr. A fitting coda. Yahoo is likely the biggest botch up in global corporate history. You think I exaggerate?