January 2012
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December 2011
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Anyone know where this music comes from?
November 2011
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Still infatuated with Tumblr
Even though I am leaning more in favour of using Google+ for my micro-blogging (and even my not-so-micro-blogging), Tumblr is far better looking and is far more visually appealing. I want to want to blog here a lot more, blog here primarily!
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My not so great Tumblr versus Google+ debate
Never mind the Google+ vs Facebook vs Twitter debate, there are pretty strong similarities between Google+ and Tumblr and Posterous. I used to use Posterous and Tumblr depending on my mood and closed down my Posterous site when I realised I didn’t really have a need for it given my preference for Tumblr anyway. Besides, I have a long standing WordPress blog which seems to keep ticking along...
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Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.
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Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply...
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““It’s a big challenge,” says Jim Larus, a Microsoft researcher...”
– This extract is from a post about Facebook’s security system, called the Facebook Immune System. Facebook’s scale and the system’s ability to work almost autonomously takes me right back to Terminator …
October 2011
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“Fear is the enemy of will. Will is what makes you take action. Fear is what...”
– This one is more than a little geeky. Mark Strong’s Sinestro character said this when he first encountered Hal Jordan in a training duel on Oa in the recent Green Lantern movie. Although this movie wasn’t exactly the best superhero movie I’ve seen, the fear-courage theme is pretty...
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“Fright is an implement of control and optimism is an implement of freedom”
– Tom Merritt, speaking on Triangulation 28
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“If all we do is manage the worst case of life, we’ll never get to the...”
– Jeff Jarvis, speaking on Triangulation 28.
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“If you’re still awake there is no chance you’re going to get any...”
– Translated bird twittering at 4:51am after being up most of the night with our kids
How to Change the World: What I Learned From Steve... →
Great lessons to learn from!
disappearance →
Pretty interesting article about the significance of women’s diminishing pubic hair. Unusual item in my Twitter stream, for sure, but worth reading.
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“Facebook is for People, Google+ is for Passions”
– Guy Kawasaki
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Conversation with my son about his working school
My son: My school is a nursery school ...
Me: No, your school is a play school and next year you will go to a nursery school.
My son: No Daddy, my school is a working school and my friends work with me.
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Apple's "Fall From Grace" →
parislemon:
This is, quite simply, one of the worst pieces I’ve ever read on Apple.
Zach Epstein starts off trashing Apple’s iPhone 4S announcement as perhaps “the beginning of the end” — and does so citing a bunch of analysts.
Analysts.
As anyone who watches Apple closely knows, analysts are absolutely fucktarded when it comes to Apple. If you bet directly against what they’ve said about...
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“Additional requirements for Acceptance Testing of non-Paper Deliverables”
– A catchy heading title in an agreement I am slogging through. Companies that have agreements like this should pass out Panado with each draft for review.