Want to see how CEO pay pas changed over the past 35 years?

I for one fail to see how this is justified. Has CEO compensation increased while the workers’ pay has stagnated? Or have they both grown at different rates? What is the justification? Is the management world made more complicated by the Internet and other modern tools or less? What are the weekly hours of work we’re talking about here. It’s just not possible to work this math in any sort of hourly way. There aren’t enough hours in the week. Perhaps I’m biased as a small business owner, caught somewhere in the middle and feeling much closer to the affect the wages I pay my staff have.

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Andy Swindler Categories: Entrepreneurship

Not sure how quickly it will catch on, but this is an interesting take on the future of personal transit in a rapidly growing city like Austin, TX.

My cousin in Austin, Rose Hansen Smith, co-produced a documentary film called The Unforeseen, executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick. I saw it at Sundance in 2007. It deftly uses Austin as a lens to frame the environmental impact of urban and suburban growth in metropolitan areas of the country, but does not get into specific ways to fix it.

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Andy Swindler Categories: Green, Technology

What I really love is the right blinker at the end…

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Andy Swindler Categories: Fun, General

Back from Greece and ready for action!

My PhotoBank worked fine on the trip, but my dad’s didn’t work at all. It seems that SmartDisk has been bought by Verbatim, who continues to service the product. I tried to get it replaced or fixed and didn’t get very far with Verbatim. My dad’s perseverance finally paid off and he got it replaced. It seems to work fine copying from memory cards, but the real problem here is getting the thing to work reliably as a hard drive on our Macs. SmartDisk chose to format the hard drive in FAT32, which ostensibly would make it more cross-compatible (Mac’s and PC’s can both read and write FAT32), but it will not consistently mount when plugged into a Mac.

I have a PC here I can use in the rare case of actually needed to recover photos from it, but it’s frustrating to see something labeled as Mac compatible that doesn’t really work well with a Mac. Anyone know of a better product in this area that’s come along? It seems like a huge market. But, like any kind of backup that’s not automated, your memories are still at the mercy of you remembering to back them up.

The Hyperdrive looks pretty solid, though it’s considerably more than the PhotoBank. Maybe you get what you pay for. Does anyone have any direct experience with this device?

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Andy Swindler Categories: Gadget