Archive for October, 2007
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Greenpeace has really begun to show it's colours over the last few years and now represents an organisation of media shills, hysterical hippies and, frankly, lying bastards,.
Much like the FSF and their alleging that Apple might be infringing on the GPL with their iPhone (in a pathetic attempt to get ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Heise.de on Vista causing sales downturn:
Now, the Dixon Store Group (DSG), a British retail chain, has released specific figures. The firm says that it earned 20 million pounds less in the first two quarters of the year because sales of Vista products did not meet expectations.
To be honest, I ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
This morning the subject in the Infurious chat swayed to the iPhone and the new possibilities with the SDK being available in February.
The SDK will enable applications to be written for both iPhone and iPod touch. This has different implications for applications wanting to take advantage of the New ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
I moved the blog.
Infurious is going to the next level and so it wasn't appropriate for all of my strange rants to be on there. We're going to be collecting feeds from the various guys involved to build a single aggregation blog but for now all of the previous content, ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
This is cribbed from 10 Golden Lessons from Steve Jobs.
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
John Welch has a pretty nice summation of some thoughts shared by others. Forgiving the irony here it seems there's some thoughts going round about the stupidity of crowds as opposed to the wisdom of crowds.
One of these stupid crowds is, of course, the geek community. They're the ones filling ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The Health Protection Agency is going to examine WiFi networks (BBC link) to see if they are going to affect our health. Are they also going to examine TV, radio and mobile phone broadcasting stations as the transmitters on those babies reaches for dozens of miles rather than the hundred ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Things that stand out:
Scripting
The scripting bridge in Leopard is extended from AppleScript to Ruby, Python and Objective-C. This means heaps more support for building apps using all of these languages. And the new object model means scripts are much more portable!
Boot Camp
Allows you to not only run Windows XP or ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
...comes the 5-year story of Atomic Bird, makers of Macaroni, Mondomouse and Chimey.
The next day three people bought copies. I was unbelievably amazed. The day after that I sold five. I soon learned that it's actually possible to make a decent living selling software over the internet for a few ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Paul Graham comes back to clarify about why startups should move to Silicon Valley but I'm not convinced now as I wasn't convinced then.
His reasoning is entirely about funding. If you need seed funding so you can dick off work for six months and build the next FaceBayLinkSpace, then you're ...
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