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A confluence of five events: - My two year old Treo 600 stopped working: Despite my best efforts to revive it. Reboots, hard resets, new software – it was dropping calls all the time and had finally become unusable. Took it to the Sprint Store where their tech played with it for 1/2 hour and ca...
Read more →His conundrum is that he loves both Web services (browser based applications) and Windows applications and can’t seem to pick a one-size-fits-all preference. Apparently some of his readers noticed that and are calling him to task on it. > “Some see my condundrum as being one brought upon by where I...
Read more →Help me with my Instant Messaging shorthand… Is it :-)) or 😀 for a big laugh? And, anyway, is it 🙂 or 🙂
This is a perenial debate with lots of sides. Here’ s just some fodder for those of you who are pondering the ...
This is one of those handy dandy tips that you wish were not hidden, buried and kept secret: “Hold down the option and control keys while launching iPhoto and you will be treated to a very nice set of options for trying to recover your photos that have mysteriously disappeared.” I write this to save the next person a few hours of blind allies. Technorati Tags: iphoto
Web 2.0 is one of those phrases that gets used and used and then people go nuts because they realize that they are all talking about something different. It becomes a heroic figh...
Read more →Here’s a survey being conducted by BlogOn, where I am on the [advisory board](http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon20...
Read more →I often cite Microsoft as an example of corporate blogging that seems to really works: If you work with, for, against Microsoft (and who in the computer industry doesn’t do one of those?) Microsoft Bloggers will give you a view ...
Read more →Interesting and amusing little article from ACM Queue: > “One of the students, Jeremy Stribling, explains how they had developed a computer program to generate random sequences of technobabble in order to confirm their suspicions that papers of dubious academicity were bypassing serious, or indeed, any scrutiny. In fact, the students claim ulterior, financial motives behind this lack of proper peer review.” (from Call That Gibberish?) Technorati Tags: funny, interesting
And in classic Blogosphere form, you can find a report on the report from Nicole-Ann Boyer on World Changing, where she says: > “With the FT riding high as the world’s best daily for the business intelligentsia, take heed large organization t...
Read more →Even though this is from the National Enquirer, which has no credibility, it’s a scary scary thought Technorati Tags: georgebush
I guess it’s the time of year, but I came across this site for Baseball umpires which is a fun entertainment if you are into the esoterica of Baseball. For the more obvious (seemingly) questions that still stump me, Wikipedia is a good resource. For example, do you think you know what a balk is? Or what a cutter is? Technorati Tags: baseball
If you are interested in the Intelligent Design debate, this is an fascinating and somewhat surprising article about a survey done by the Pew Research Center for the People. As usual with this kind of thing it is useful to *know the bias...
Read more →Ever notice in restaurant menus how the dish descriptions are made to sound fancier and fancier by adding adjective? “green beans” are not as good as “fresh green-beans”, which are not as good as “native fresh green-beans”, which are not as good as: “hand-picked native fresh green-beans”, which are...
Read more →This is pretty cool: a framework to easily manage the demonstration of UI elements, inspired by JUnit. Here’s what they say: > “As supplement to test driven software development, JDemo provides a new approach of demo driven development: When developing software, you write short code snippets (demo cases) that use your new API. The demo then demonstrates both: how to use the API and what happens when you execute the code. So you can for example interactively test the usability of GUI components.” (from JDemo web site) Pretty cool. Check it out! Technorati Tags: cooltool
I’ve come across a flurry of commentary on the fact that apparently TiVo has added content protection allowing a broadcaster to protect any program as it is broadcast. The result of this is: > “[A program] recorded with a red-flag next to it (an icon I’ve never seen before). When I selected the ep...
Read more →This is from a dictionary: > Banana problem: noun > A situation of uncertainty about when a task is complete and therefore when to stop working on it > The term banana problem is often used in computing when talking about badly written or incorrect conditions for the termination of a comput...
Read more →Do you follow Ben Hyde’s blog? I recommend it – he has always fascinating intellectual tours-de-force. I guess it was a slow day in the Hyde office when there were no world-changing problems to be addressed, so check out this analysis of what it costs you to use your car. Interesting, relevant in today’s $3.00+ per gallon world, and (intentionally?) funny too! (And someday I will be able to parse the sentence “Ascription is Anathema to any Enthusiasm 🙂 Technorati Tags: funny, gasoline
Yesterday, this appeared on my Mac desktop: 
Here’s a little movie showing you what it does. [http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/1075723/1282935...
Robin Good points to: “The Myth of The Rock Star and of the Need To Sing-up For a Major Recording Label”: > “Music” does not ...
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