Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
I'm really tired tonight. I helped my sister move house and even though we had the help of two neighbours and three work colleagues, I'm absolutely shattered. So tired I can't even face looking at the ever mounting paperwork which I need to get through. It didn't help that we ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
I was mailed the other day by a Google recruiter, asking if I was interested in working there. My first reaction was to say no (and that's been my final reaction too) but I took a bit of time to examine why. This actually started out as a ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
Last couple of days we've been running SyncBridge in a production environment and adding some last minute features, future proofing, feedback about APIs and turning off debug messages. It's been error free for a while which is so nice. It's not a bad feeling when people using the app ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Dave Winer riffs off Google Checkout being "baaad mmkay" because one day his "idea of Google soured, it was an instant flip". He says they started to act like Microsoft. I'm wondering when they started this and in what ways. I know people have a lot of opinions about Microsoft ...
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
It never occurred to me until yesterday just how much SyncBridge has been my little child.
When I first created the sync engine, it wasn't allowed out of the house, although I occasionally sent photos to close relatives (I was using it to synchronize between multiple user accounts on my machine, ...
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Last night I was at a studio recording at the BBC for a pilot of a new comedy show. I recognised a lot of the audience which makes me sound like such a social butterfly (Northern Ireland is a small puddle) and even spotted Brian O'Neill of Fresh Ideas, a ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Dave Winer, soon to be ex-blogger, comments on why he thinks Bill Gates is stepping down from the helm at Microsoft. He displays a stock graph which shows the stock in freefall (though if you examine the key it's not a dramatic drop). The big drop is only in the ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Of course, by "infinite", we mean "never". This article, highlighting some incidents from the career from Microsoft's new superstar, Ray Ozzie, mentions this in passing.
"no small company can afford to develop multiple products that never reach the market - there aren't the resources to do that."
The article says that Ozzie ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Macworld UK has an article on Mac Game Piracy. As someone who owns 3 copies of Halo for Mac and one for PC, I think I'm more an oddity than a normal gamer. The author of the article states that downloads from MacGameFiles outnumber sell-throughs by a factor of 10 ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Gavin Shearer, a Seattle Microsoftie who is, you know, partial to a Mac or two, comments on the recent "Get a Mac" adverts which are riffing off the Switch campaign from a couple of years back.
He says that the Windows folk are now seeing the Mac as a real alternative ...
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