…except for the “being in shape” part. 
HoloLens
We received a HoloLens development kit in The MKX® Labs. According to Microsoft, this is what it is:
Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully untethered, holographic computer, enabling you to interact with high‑definition holograms in your world.
While this is somewhat hyperbolic (I don’t this these are holograms, it’s just really good augmented reality), I was very impressed. These are my impressions.
Batman v Superman spoilerfull review
The critics have universally panned the new “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” movie. I saw it last night.
Is it as terrible as the critics would lead you to believe?
No.
Is it good?
No. It’s ok.
Do you want to read my random ramblings full of spoilers?
Read more.
Darth Ilan fan mail
We at The MKX® receive hundreds… well maybe tens of fan emails every day. This recent one caught our eye, send by Jaco:
Thank you! Keep them coming!
Darth Ilan
Ilan dressed up for Purim as the Dark Lord of the Sith himself: Darth Vader. Whenever I would ask him “Where’s Darth Vader?” he would look down and point at his costume while breathing heavily.
I couldn’t be prouder.
Apologies for the shoddy video work: I had to stay close and hold him because he’s standing on a shaky toy rail while recording with the other hand.
SXSW 2016
This year my SXSW participation was scaled back to just a couple of acts last night. It was the Trinidad & Tobago showcase. The two singers: Isasha, who played for about 10 minutes due to technical issues, and Destra García who put up a good show.
Hopefully I’ll be more active next year.
Cap10k 2016 registration
What have I done?
It’s a Pinterest kind of day
Goodbye Delicious. Hello Shaarli
Those of you who subscribe to The MKX® (via email or RSS) or pay attention to that list of links on the website’s sidebar know that I’ve been using a service called Delicious for link sharing. I started in 2005 back when they were known as Web 2.0 pioneers “del.icio.us”. I’m stopping now.
Delicious was a great, promising service for “Social Bookmarking”. They were “cool”. Then Yahoo bought it in their own desperate bid for relevance only to proceed to neglect it almost to the point of irrelevance. So they sold it to AVOS Systems, who then sold it to Science Inc. I don’t know who either is.
In the meantime, the website improved somewhat, an unusable iPhone app was released – not in the sense that it was hard to use but in the sense that it truly didn’t work at all, and the bookmarklet stopped working. The latest owners, before making any improvements, decided to stick ads to user’s RSS feeds without any warning. Monetizing is fine but not warning your users before such change is not. This was the straw. I myself subscribe to Delicious feeds for about 7 people who share maybe one link every six months. Yet I get one ad foe each of them daily!
So I decided to make a change. Introducing:
I am using a OSS system called Shaarli. I am self-hosting it which means that it cannot get sold to Yahoo without making me rich. Right now, I’m using the stock version, which sports a design only a mother could love. That’s ok – if I find time for it I may tweak it to be less offensive. All 1875 links were imported. Getting a combined RSS feed for The MKX® and The MKX® Links wasn’t so easy. I used ChimpFeedr (by MailChimp), then I put that through FeedBurner (which gives me both usage statistics and the email subscription service and risks joining Google’s Graveyard at any point). I hope it works out.
In the meantime, I apologize for any ads or RSS oddness. Let me know of any problems.
Vote
Even Ilan understands that voting is serious business. It’s not that hard, go vote! #ToddlersForHillary
