Archive for January, 2007

Update on an earlier posting…

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Two months ago I complained about the situation at Muckamore Abbey Hospital where children and adults rights are being abused. Individuals held under the pretense of "delayed discharge". Last night on Newsline there was a report and it was covered by the Stephen Nolan show at 9:00 am this morning on ...

Smile Strategies

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Over at Creating Passionate Users they're talking about what makes us smile and the example given is the Mens room sign at Honolulu Airport. To be honest, this is what I love about Apple. It's the little things. It's the alphabet-pop-ups that appear when scrolling through my music on my iPod. ...

Special Super Resolution Surprise!

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Okay....we're more than two weeks into January and I've managed to keep all of my resolutions so far. That's quite an achievement. Even the one about losing weight :) A friend of mine seems to have kept a resolution to dump the Internet. I think that's a bit extreme. The Internet ...

Change or Die.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Driving through my hometown I noticed that one of the traditional record shops that had been the mainstay of my record-buying life in my angst-ridden late teens and early twenties had closed down and was now one of these modern-day pawnshops (like Cash Converters, these eBay shops or whatever). As ...

Business ethics and Whiner (sp!) on the iPhone

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Dave says: I am writing this on a Mac, because it's much better than Windows. Apple didn't need any patents to get me to buy their system. I don't even like the company, I think they're brats, small thinkers. Even though I don't have to, every year I spend thousands of ...

iPhone OSX = Taking the Mac out of Mac OS X

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Mark Pilgrim sounds off about the iPhone software ecosystem: All you independent Mac developers: you’re all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up. The funny thing is that no-one was bleating like this when the iPod was released. This highlights to me a lot of confusion on the part of ...

So they called it an iPhone

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

I asked for it. Seems I got it. Of course it's going to be 9 months before they launch in the UK. Bollocks.

Gates on Apple’s “huge disadvantage”

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Bill Gates says (when asked about Apple's ability to get into the living room for home entertainment systems): They have a huge disadvantage in the kind of variety--design points, price points, distribution approaches. They just don't get that. They do get to do this tightly coupled monolithic design. What we have ...

I’m realistic. I don’t want this for free.

Friday, January 5th, 2007

According to this article on the New York Post, lawyers are walking away from their highly paid jobs in an attempt to escape the so-called Blackberry Lifestyle - "being tethered to the job 24/7 and having to rush back to the office at a moment's notice when e-mail orders ...