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A magazine editor, ghostwriter, and literary gun-for-hire living in NYC, Nick Kolakowski specializes in writing about gizmos, travel, business, liquor, cigars, celebrity, and various other things wiser heads would tell you to stay away from.

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Archive for October, 2009

So Then I Became A Talking Head

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I ended up on television twice last week. It was decidedly nifty, if a little hair-raising. I still can’t watch the clips themselves all the way through; I get shy about viewing myself, the same way I rarely read anything I’ve written after it’s been published.
When your primary duty as a tech writer is covering [...]

Hey, I Thought It Was Pure Comedy Gold

Monday, October 12th, 2009

I’m not sure if The Globe and Mail thought my Microsoft Watch blog posting constituted the “insightful,” “colorful,” or “just plain weird” part of its round-up, but they quoted me talking this week about Windows 7 and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer:
“What new features await you with the Steve Ballmer edition of Windows 7? For starters, [...]