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  • Coin: 10 Reasons It’s Not a Nightmare

    Tom's Guide published a piece called 10 Reasons Coin Card Could Be a Security Nightmare that starts off with a great summary of what Coin is but then goes on to excessively magnify the risks of using Coin and their likelihood. This alarmist piece does not accurately portray real usage and real risks of ...

  • New York City Subway Map – High Resolution

    Despite a lot of searching online, I've had a hard time finding a high-resolution map of the New York City subway system. To its credit, the NYC MTA has a subway map on its website and has a downloadable, printable PDF. However, there's no official high quality image file to ...

  • Google Glass Explorers Invitations Available

    As most of you can tell, I've been beta testing +Google Glass since June. Google is expanding their pool of beta testers and I have two invites to give out. Purchase necessary. Let me know if you're interested in one of them and why you would be a good fit by Saturday, ...

  • $100 Android HDMI Dongle: Dell Project Ophelia

    This new release by Dell signals a foray into a new market by a large and respected hardware manufacturer. The $100 Android HDMI dongle is a very appealing form factor for a variety of uses and several have been released in the past year given advances in hardware miniaturization and ...

Downfall of the Two Party System

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Politics
Oct
11
Left vs Right Full Political Spectrum

As mentioned in an earlier post, the ranks of evangelicals are growing in the Republican party. To accommodate this, the GOP’s platform has swung dramatically toward being more socially conservative at the cost of alienating its moderate members. A party so polarized cannot stay that way forever. It risks breaking at the seams. Literally. The  [ Read More ]

Happy Birthday to Me: Quarter-Century

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Food
Oct
10
Birthday Cake 25th

Leading up to my birthday, I’ve incidentally indulged in a series of simple and exquisite culinary delights. Given that I’m a foodie, this has been a wonderful lead up to going to my favorite restaurant, Zaytinya, with my girlfriend this evening. It began on Thursday with my coworkers with a rather plebeian yet quite delicious  [ Read More ]

Republican and “Republican”

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Politics
Oct
09
Evangometer

One of the legacies of the George W. Bush administration is an escalation in partisanship in politics. Jokes about Congress used to be based on the premise that everyone compromises or nothing gets done — and the compromise leaves everyone wanting more. Now, it seems that one side, liberals or conservatives, gets what they want  [ Read More ]

Facebook Smart Lists

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Technology
Oct
09
Facebook Smart Lists

Way to be creative Facebook. Let’s create auto-populating Smart Lists of types of friends and then let you share things on Facebook privacy-wise by selecting which lists get to see it. Sounds an awful lot like Google+’s Circles. Essentially, it abandons the previous privacy scheme (half-networks, half-lists, a dash of degrees of separation) and adopts  [ Read More ]

Steve Jobs Epitaph

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Technology
Oct
08
Steve Jobs

What some are using as an epitaph for Steve Jobs that he helped craft himself for the iconic “Think Different” Apple advertising campaign: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have  [ Read More ]

iPhone 4S: Too little, Too late

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Technology
Oct
07
iPhone 4S

I had big hopes for this little phone. A bigger screen (edge-to-edge anyone?), better battery life, a new design. That extra Apple “something else” bell or whistle. I knew certain things were out of the question. 4G? Too new. Removable battery? Don’t hold your breath. Something revolutionary? Not this time. It felt a little like  [ Read More ]

Steve, you’re on your own iCloud now

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Technology
Oct
06
Steve Jobs Eternal Flame

I never really liked using your products but you set a gold standard for everyone to beat, spurring marketplace innovation If you had asked me what my first post would be in my blog, I would never have guessed I’d be writing about the Steve Jobs and his passing. I’m not an Apple guy by  [ Read More ]

Hello world!

Posted by Mario Stylianou Categories: Technology
Oct
06
Hello World

Welcome to the Chronicles of Mario. This is my first post. Here’s to the start of my blogging!

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