Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Philip Littlewood, potential switcher writes a blog post about his second thoughts about switching to the Mac.
His reasons are below but ca be summed up as Apple having lost it's soul. I must say I agree (which, if you know me, is a bit deal).
His criticisms:
Overcharge for the iPhone
Is ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Someone mentioned "the Blogosphere" and it hit home with me when I read this article about the Monekysphere. Maybe it's because we were all thinking about a couple of posts Damien Mulley posted about people being killed in Burma and also the use of expletives in blog posts.
From the ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
This article documents the startup and stopping and restart of a web-app-based startup.
There's some good lessons in there for anyone who would consider releasing a web app in the near future.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Physorg.com reports:Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.
In Belfast, there were two efforts I was aware of, going back a ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
A friend wrote:
Warning: this is more of a rant than anything else. I wish people would laugh more. Seriously, go outside, and go to any random place you want. I dare you to find someone that's laughing, or even smiling. Step into your car, drive around, and look for a ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
AppleInsider is speculating that Apple may drop support for PowerPC in Mac OS X 10.6 (estimated to come out sometime in 2009/2010).
Looking ahead, those people familiar with Apple development cycles speculate that Mac OS X 10.6 will exclude support for PowerPC-based Macs entirely, requiring that users have one of the ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
From part of O'Reilly's series Women In Technology:
Startups are—and to succeed, must be—meritocratic. Limited funding, time, and even office space restrictions don't allow for hiring anyone who doesn't add real value. Larger companies and firms have internal diversity goals whereas startups don't have such goals in their early stages.
This is ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
86-year-old James Sorenson, the largest shareholder in Abbott Laboratories (worth about $4.5 billion) and a junk-food enthusiast, perhaps best captured the fundamental spirit of entrepreneurship. Asked for the hardest lesson he had to learn, he replied: "To spend my energy and resources investing in my own ideas, rather than ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Her-Indoors has been a bit sick recently and I've finally plugged in the slingplayer that I bought four months ago.
She loves it.
It works with the Sky+ box allowing her to pause the live TV while sitting in bed convalescing.
I've not enabled the remote viewing aspect because, frankly, I'd never ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Sometimes when you read an article on the BBC News web site you have to wonder if their journalists get gifts from Microsoft every week or if they just live in 5-star hotels at the expense of the Redmond giant.
RoughlyDrafted tears BBC Columnist a new rectum regarding his recent article ...
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