ISSN 1496-3221
May 19, 2009
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
December 30, 2008
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
September 17, 2008
Shoot me in the head. Stab me in the eye. Instead of using .Net, I think I’d rather die.
April 24, 2007
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
December 29, 2006
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
November 21, 2006
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
January 10, 2006
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
December 5, 2003
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
July 29, 2003
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
October 31, 2001
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