Mitch's Blog

I learned yesterday about the death of Scot Finnie, my editor and friend. We worked together for a few years in the 2000s. He and I and Brad Shimmin launched blogging for CMP Media back when CMP was a big company in the trade press and blogging was new.

Scot was a good editor, good friend and championed my career. We shared a common interest in productivity tools and could nerd out about that kind of software for a while — for a few years, he ran a newsletter about Windows productivity, Scot’s Newsletter, and he and I switched to Mac at about the same time.

We only talked a couple of times in the 2010s, and I think not at all since Covid. I am sad to lose him.

The Democrats have a shot at taking the House and Senate this year. Will they have the courage to launch hearings and pursue criminal prosecution to its end-point — even if that means throwing DJT in prison?

Or will they wimp out, as the US has done since the Reconstruction after the Civil War, and give oligarchs a pass?

In the United States today there is no penalty for flagrant corruption and attempting the overthrow of the US government — if you’re a billionaire.

If you steal $1,000, they throw you in prison, but if you take hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, they put you in the White House.

Infrastructure AI stalls before ROI, research finds — Separate research from Gartner and IDC finds AI adoption in infrastructure and networking isn’t meeting expectations. My latest on Fierce Network.

No email containing the phrase “bumping this to the top of your inbox” is worth reading.

A grandmother of ten went to work for Doordash after burning through her life savings to pay for her husband’s cancer treatments and Trump thinks this is a flex.

T-Mobile’s Ankur Kapoor: Here’s why 5G-Advanced matters to consumers and businesses. T-Mobile’s chief network officer, details how 5G-Advanced delivers faster, more consistent performance today, and is “training wheels” for AI-native 6G. My latest on Fierce Network.

I enjoy delicious schadenfreude watching Trump and his MAGA clowns set their house on fire, notwithstanding that we’re all in the house with them and the doors are locked.

While walking the dog this morning I spontaneously thought of the ending to last night’s episode of “Rooster” and I burst out laughing out loud.

When I make a doctor’s appointment, the doctor sends a notification asking me to arrive ten minutes early. That’s not how appointments work.

This is possibly the least annoying thing in my life that is, nonetheless, still annoying.