The archive

Every piece I've published — 236 essays, field notes, and dispatches.

Technology·

Leadership team bio ...

As with any startup, you never get the time to do the little things. I've been with Abaca Technology as their Director of Engineering for more than six months…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
Leadership team bio ...
Technology·

Apple Store Down for Announcements?

It seems the Apple store is down for what I'm assuming to be updates that will come out of the WWDC announcement this morning. I'm no crazy Apple fanatic but…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
Apple Store Down for Announcements?
Technology·

Twitter Isn't So Bad

Ok, so I admit that I didn't really understand Twitter when it came out. It seemed pretty dumb. Well, after playing around with it for the past two weeks,…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
Twitter Isn't So Bad
Technology·

WWDC Starts Tomorrow

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 starts tomorrow and the freak Apple fans are running up the rumors about the 3G iPhone, iPhone embedded GPS.…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
WWDC Starts Tomorrow
Technology·

CNN Breaking News! Wait ...

I received this email/text message from my CNN Breaking News Alert @ 3:15am this morning. Seriously, they woke someone up at 3:15am to send this? In…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
CNN Breaking News!  Wait ...
Technology·

OLPC Is Pretty Cool for 1.0

Today, I spent time setting up the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that my father bought as part of the "Buy a Laptop for Child and Get a Laptop Free" program…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
OLPC Is Pretty Cool for 1.0
Technology·

Twitter Technical Problems No Joke

I'm not a huge Twitter fan but have been playing around with their SMS/Twitter/Facebook integration which is pretty cool. I guess all of the blogs about how…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
Twitter Technical Problems No Joke
Technology·

Oil Prices Keep Going Up! Woo-hoo!

The price of oil per oarrel have reached record levels. Last Friday, the Nymex Crude Future hit $118.52 a barrel. The prices at the pump are acting…

Renato J. Mascardo·2 min read
Oil Prices Keep Going Up!  Woo-hoo!
Culture·

iLike Is Pretty Cool

A friend of mine at work and and I were chatting this morning about the classic problem of discovering new music. Low and behold, Web 2.0 to the rescue!…

Renato J. Mascardo·2 min read
iLike Is Pretty Cool
Technology·

Twine Time!

Alas, I finally got my beta login into Twine. I can't wait to give it a whirl. Let's see what the so called "Web 3.0" has in store for us.

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
Twine Time!
Technology·

Ebay may sell off Skype (Duh!)

Someone get the new CEO a carrot for recognizing the obvious. What the hell were they thinking when they bought Skype in the first place?

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
Ebay may sell off Skype (Duh!)
Technology·

What happened to customer service?

Ever since I took over Support responsibilities at my software startup, I've been thinking a lot about what makes for good customer service and support.

Renato J. Mascardo·2 min read
What happened to customer service?
Technology·

HP Upline Still Unavailable!

On Thursday, April 17th, HP suspended operation of the HP Upline Service. We fully anticipate that suspension of the Upline Service will be temporary and…

Renato J. Mascardo·2 min read
HP Upline Still Unavailable!
Technology·

HP Upline down for 2 days!

I recently jumped on the online storage band wagon and signed up for HP Upline. My thought process was that "it's HP, I can trust these guys". Plus, I could…

Renato J. Mascardo·1 min read
HP Upline down for 2 days!