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A random assortment of ramblings on all things tech from a former developer, technology manager and comedy writer.

by Phil Johnson

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Phil Johnson is a writer and editor for ITworld.com, after having survived 17 years in the corporate wild as a software/web developer, technical lead and project manager. Along the way he also used to write monologue jokes for David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno.

In his spare time these days, when he's not chauffeuring his daughters to and from school, lessons and Justin Bieber movies (ugh), he enjoys drawing cartoons, tweeting about his life and taking pictures of cranes.

Facebook Home is creepy

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 11:44 am

Disembodied heads of friends and family staring at me from my phone? No thanks
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- Android, bed
Marissa Mayer's working delivery

Posted Oct 08, 2012 - 10:26 am

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- Yahoo, baby
Live tweeting the Facebook Home event

Posted Apr 04, 2013 - 09:22 am

I was tweeting during the Facebook Home announcement event. Here's what happened
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- Android, computers
5 technologies for Democrats and Republicans to fight over

Posted Nov 06, 2012 - 12:52 pm

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- Amazon, Android
History of the O'Reilly cover animals

Posted Apr 03, 2013 - 10:56 am

O’Reilly’s cover designer tells the story of how they came to use animals on the covers of their popular books
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- animals, awk
The Taliban is on Twitter! And guess who they're following

Posted May 20, 2011 - 03:38 pm

Taliban join the Twitter revolution (The Guardian)
The Weekly Hash - January 18, 2013

Posted Jan 18, 2013 - 11:48 am

A semi-serious look back at some of the top tech stories of the week, today featuring Lance Armstrong’s surprising confession to Oprah, a guy outsourcing his own job to China and the Mexican Army getting hacked
Windows 7 fire drill

Posted May 22, 2009 - 10:09 am

What really happens when Microsoft tests Windows 7 updates.
More proof that our copyright laws are busted

Posted Apr 02, 2013 - 12:11 pm

Recent rulings in the ReDigi and Aereo cases highlight what we already know: it’s high time for Congress to overhaul the copyright laws
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- Aereo, basketball
Apple's iRadio music service is finally coming - maybe

Posted Apr 01, 2013 - 11:09 am

Apple may be close to launching its long-rumored streaming radio service, but we've heard that before

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