Cannon Beach, Oregon
Cannon Beach, Oregon

The Core Dump

The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.

Welcome to Nic’s Core Dump. Enjoy.

Some good podcasts for you

Nic listens to a lot of podcasts on his commute. He hopes some of them might make you happy.

Saturday, 07 May, 2011

Closer to the metal

Nic switches from WordPress to Jekyll. He’s excited. Everybody else is bored to tears.

Sunday, 01 May, 2011

Something in the water: 10 years of the Apple Store

Nic talks about the early days of the Apple Store and how it came damn close to killing him.

Sunday, 24 April, 2011

FiveFingers help chronic compartment syndrome

Nic finds that Vibram FiveFingers help with his chronic compartment syndrome. This makes him happy.

Friday, 08 April, 2011

Twitter is not your free advertising

Nic gets his panties all in a bunch about how some people are using Twitter as an ad-hoc means of getting free advertising.

Monday, 21 March, 2011

Review: Griftopia

Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia is an important book, and it will make you angry enough to froth at the mouth.

Monday, 14 March, 2011

Review: The Heroes

The Heroes is an intense, wild ride into a maelstrom of violence, brutality and flawed human beings. You should read it.

Wednesday, 02 March, 2011

Slowing down the news

Nic explains why you don’t need Live on the Scene With Action News and why it’s so compelling anyway.

Friday, 11 February, 2011

Kinda I want to

Nic discovers Nine Inch Nails as a broke student with an IROC-Z in Louisiana. He still loves Pretty Hate Machine.

Saturday, 05 February, 2011

A panegyric to e-book readers

Nic really digs e-book readers. No, seriously, he really digs them. And you should, too.

Tuesday, 01 February, 2011

Your computer is becoming an appliance. Deal.

The future and now of personal computing is appliances. This post parses why you shouldn’t worry about it.

Friday, 28 January, 2011
Tuesday, 25 January, 2011

Video on the Web: Your HTML5 won’t save you now

Grab a hankie and a strong drink to help you through this discussion of the pain that awaits you if you want to put video on the Web.

Monday, 17 January, 2011

Frosty the windshield

There’s frost on the car windows in Phoenix. Confusion ensues.

Friday, 07 January, 2011

Naked and sedated

Dagnabbit, some idiot does some dumb shit and now everybody’s air travel has to suck even more?

Thursday, 31 December, 2009

Home of the dollar

Having an economy based on housing only is a bad idea. Who knew?

Wednesday, 30 December, 2009

Hummingbird heaven

Nic loves the hummingbirds in his backyard.

Wednesday, 16 December, 2009

Morning conversation

Nic’s daughter frightens him sometimes.

Wednesday, 09 December, 2009

Review: Klipsch IMAGE S4i headset

Solid in-ear headphones with Apple-compatible remote.

Sunday, 29 November, 2009

New hamburger expertise

Nic shows you how to grill up a fantastic burger. Yum.

Tuesday, 24 November, 2009

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