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ISSN 1496-3221

Category: Get Off My Lawn

May 19, 2009

#fixreplies

When Twitter changed the behaviour of replies exactly one week ago, my initial reaction was one of bafflement. The rationale they gave, “… receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable …”, simply didn’t cut the mustard with me. This “undesirable” behaviour was one of the reasons … More

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December 30, 2008

Top not.

Many of us feel additional pressure at the end of December. Don’t deny it, you know you’re one of those people. I can certainly feel something weighing on me, but it’s not necessarily due to the traditional year-end nonsense. Is it the implied deadlines associated with finishing up last minute projects or the well-intentioned resolutions … More

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September 17, 2008

A poem.

Shoot me in the head. Stab me in the eye. Instead of using .Net, I think I’d rather die.

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April 24, 2007

If the shit fits.

While catching up on the newsfeeds this weekend, I stumbled across a perfectly wonderful quote by Evan Williams. He pretty much sums up every discussion I’ve ever had on this particular subject, to wit … “I only point to Alexa graphs from now on when they help illustrate my point, since in general it’s full … More

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December 29, 2006

Several years late and a dollar short.

MacNN reports that Big Blue has finally released an OS X-savvy version of its venerable Lotus Notes collaboration suite. The press release states: “ … with IBM Lotus Notes 7.0.2 for OS X, Mac users have the collaboration power they’ve been waiting for … ” Mac users? As in multiple? Shouldn’t that read “ … … More

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November 21, 2006

Final eviction notice.

Early adoption is for masochists. Cohesive workflow and performance comes from being stubborn, sticking with what you know, and not drifting away from your comfort zone. Those who blindly accept and implement change are weak and tend to bend to peer pressure. Yeah, ok. Whatever. Six months ago I was done rationalizing. Enough dragging of … More

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January 10, 2006

One more thing.

Enough about the keynote already. Ok, maybe not quite yet. I have to get this out of my system… MacBook Pro? What kind of lame-butt, patronizing brandsludge is that? Feh. I guess Jonathan Ive doesn’t sit in on the product branding meetings. If somebody nonmenclated one of my hardware designs like that, I’d have to … More

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December 5, 2003

Regarding your recent message.

Hi there. What can I do for you today? > Your Email Client does not support MIME encoding. Hmmm. Actually, it does support MIME encoding. That’s why I received the attached images you sent me. However, it doesn’t support non-standard, single-part encoding that your email client apparent mangles the text component of your message into. … More

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July 29, 2003

Grumpy old men.

What the hell has crawled up some people’s butts? Please indulge me for a moment while I explain. My wife and I, along with our dog, were enjoying a warm summer evening in our back yard. As goes one of our stupid pet tricks, we were telling the dog to look for squirrels. When he … More

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October 31, 2001

Maybe.

This site was inaccessible for several hours this morning, not because my servers flaked out again (oh, like that ever happens anyway …), but because of an indeterminate router glitch at my service provider’s head end. I think that this may be the first time in the six odd months that I’ve had a dedicated … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.