May 2010
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“There is no “i” in team but there are 3 “u’s” in...”
– Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly 157
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Introducing our next great adventure, code-named...
Well, its official now, we are pregnant again! Following in the tradition of our first little one who we designated “Sprout” while he was making his way into the world, we have designated Aaron’s tiny sibling “theSQL” (official hashtag is #theSQL). Gina has just published the news on her blog in her post titled “How to fall pregnant in 12 easy...
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Facebook's sheer size
I’m reading through the wave on Read/Write Web from the Facebook media event yesterday and came across this Q&A which offers a perspective on Facebook’s size:
Q (Liz Gaines from GigaOm): Can you give us some more context about how this outcry against the privacy changes compares to earlier changes? Did people leave the site?
A (Zuckerberg): Newsfeed was the biggest backlash...
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Late night productivity tweaks with OmniFocus and...
The one disadvantage of having an Android phone, for me at least, is that I can’t get OmniFocus for my phone. OmniFocus is probably one of the best productivity applications around but I’ve started wondering if my inability to access my task lists when I am not in front of my MacBook (quite often actually) is impairing my general level of productivity? I took a look at Remember The...
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Tweeting about poor service can be more effective...
I started my practice about 4 and a half years ago. I initially approached Standard Bank when I started my practice and opened accounts with the bank. I requested an overdraft to get me through what I expected would be a difficult first few months and my application was turned down because my new practice hadn’t demonstrated an adequate track record to justify an overdraft. I pointed out...
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Scanning books into GoodReads using an Android...
I signed up for GoodReads a while ago, partly because I want to create an online catalogue of all my books. The problem is that it takes a while to add them all to my library on the site itself. I went looking for a solution for my HTC Desire, an Android phone, and found the following process which works reasonably well:
It something that’s just called “Barcode Scanner v3.2”...
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A razor blade in the ... stone?
I just browsed to a competitor’s website and was greeted with this image on their home page:
I’m really not too sure what to make of this …
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Watch“I should have known” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers … something new from a terrific artist.
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We're all just a bunch of dumb f**ks to Mark...
Business Insider has published an extract from an IM conversation Mark Zuckerberg had with a friend soon after he launched The Facebook just over 6 years ago which may give a stark insight into his attitude towards Facebook’s users and their privacy:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
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Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft? →
How weird is this?
frakintosh:
wilwheaton:
I sure hope this is true, and not some kind of malfunction:
It left Earth 33 years ago, now it’s claimed the Voyager 2 spacecraft may have been hijacked by aliens after sending back data messages NASA scientists can’t decode.
NASA installed a 12-inch disk containing music and greetings in 55 languages in case intelligent extraterrestrial life ever...
Record Labels Win Case Against LimeWire →
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the makers of LimeWire file-sharing software were liable for copyright infringement and related claims brought by record labels.
Are Your Web Browser Plugins Safe? This Page Tells... →
Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, introduced a “plugin checker” page last fall that analyzed whether the plugins you had installed in your web browser were up to date….
Android 2.2 sets Android 2.1 on fire. From the... →
Man oh man. While it may just be benchmark scores at this point, this kind of speed increase is nothing to snuff at.
Ian Douglas has run some benchmarks on his Froyo-powered Nexus One,…
Edge Theory Conversations: Location's Impact... →
With the world of location based services, including Foursquare and Gowalla, getting a lot of discussion of late, especially as news comes that Facebook will soon check in with its own…
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Would you delete your Facebook profile? Why? I... →
There is a significant number of my friends who are saying Facebook doesn’t bring enough value and are deleting their Facebook profiles or considering deleting them. I don’t know…
Much ado about privacy on Facebook (I wish... →
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I think Scoble is missing the point (one important point anyway) but he has a perspective worth sharing.
Jeff Jarvis wraps up a couple of weeks of bloggers’ angst…
Google Maps for Android Gets Biking Directions and... →
Google Maps for Android just got a nice update for those of us who like to ride our bikes around town. Just in time for National Bike Month, you can now get biking directions on your…
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“It’s already clichéd to say President Jacob Zuma has been a disappointment....”
– The Daily Maverick :: Zuma, one year on: A view you wouldn’t entirely expect
Ubuntu's Linux OS -- Mac OS X's... →
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Interesting take on Ubuntu. Part of me would love to see Ubuntu become the new standard but it still has some way to go before it can be said to be better than Mac OS. Even Windows…
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The sort of email inbox most men would love to...
I picked this one up on Nic Haralambous’ Posterous blog and wanted to repost it:
Nic got it from this site, no idea who originated it.
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MS Word hates lawyers and here is proof!
As most people who know me, know, I am a lawyer and I tend to draft a number of agreements and similar documents. Microsoft Word is the standard word processor in the legal industry and it has all the formatting bells and whistles we need to do what we do properly. I have used Pages and OpenOffice in the past and neither of them have everything I need as a lawyer to create properly structured...
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Our fancy new banner
We got our new banner today from Hands On Graphics. We are sponsoring a charity event at the end of the month and decided we needed a banner to help promote our firm so we approached Dion at Hands On to create the banner for us.
We like it. The photo is of the Constitutional Court courtroom. It worked out pretty well and we have the banner up in our office for a little bit.
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“We say “TGIF” on Fridays, Mondays should be “WTFIM?”...”
– Me
Google to launch digital books, for Android? →
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is launching its own digital book distribution network, similar to Amazon or Apple iBooks. The service, called Google Editions, looks to launch as…
Mozilla wants your feedback on Firefox for Android →
Have you tried the pre-alpha build of Fennec for Android? Mozilla continues to ramp up development on the mobile version of Firefox and now they are adapting the user interface to Android.
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Google Chrome Market Share Surges, Apple's... →
Yes, Microsoft’s losing. But so is Apple.
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“When I eventually find myself in my Creator’s presence I am going to ask...”
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Procrastination
Jeez, the last few days have been shocking work days. Not because I am busy (which I haven’t been, not nearly enough) or because I don’t have work to do (I have loads) but because I have been stuck in this procrastination rut since late last week. I don’t know where my mind has been …
… but it hasn’t been focussed on my lengthening task list …
I...
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“Before we start to work, can you please sent a picture of you? We want to work...”
– Funny!
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