The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: technology

  • i like when this didn’t require me to enter a title before i entered a post

    1. I was on this stupid thing where I thought I should start carrying a fake phone and wallet in case I was mugged. So I bought an iPhone 3G for $20 on eBay, which is the same exact phone I had nine years ago. It is ridiculously small and uses a different dock connector…

  • Shut The Fuck Up About Megapixels

    I hate it when people think that more megapixels are better.  They are wrong. This has been bugging the shit out of me ever since the latest Mars lander touched down.  Once people heard the probe had a two megapixel camera, the circle-jerk started.  “HEY MAN WTF DID THEY USE THAT CAMERA MY ANDROID HAS…

  • Patents, Apple, Whatever

    There’s been a lot of coverage in the news about Apple’s various patent wars against Samsung and others, and the gist of the coverage is that the patent system was 100% fine up until Apple woke up one morning and decided to destroy anyone making a rectangle-shaped touchscreen phone. I have no real arguments for…

  • HD is the new SD

    What happened to the allure of the HDTV?  I was thinking about this the other day, as I tried to shoehorn some more crap in my storage space and realized that the little 15″ analog CRT TV I have in there is probably never going to see service again and is just wasting a couple…