Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Twenty Major on the problems with kids today.
They shoplifted, they drank cider, they smoked John Player blue, they wore pants too short from them and those squiggly jumpers you used to see in Dunnes Stores and they got up to no good. They sniffed glue and generally made a nuisance ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
According to Macrumors, the iPhone SDK will be announced on March 6th.
"Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features," Apple said in an invitation sent to reporters.
Are we to assume Apple has licensed ActiveSync?
Are we going to see ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Abilene Christian University is investing in mobile learning.
What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff ...
Posted in Cool, iPhone | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
doing the same thing over
and over again and
expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
As complexity and confusion grows, simple tools become more and more valuable. And while sometimes it’s easy to think we need this that and the other to solve a problem, it’s often the simplest solution that actually gets the job done. Not everything has to be a Swiss Army Knife. ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Some things are an impossible mission. Like pleasing everyone all of the time.
When repairing computers, especially Macs, you have to rely on the quality of the components you are provided and sometimes that means waiting a long time for parts that are in high demand. And sometimes they aren't ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Because of my background I'm somewhat used to working in a flexible arrangement.
When I was with Nortel, I'd pull 50 hour weeks with no sweat because there was flexibility. I took ownership of the work, of the sites, and sometimes that meant maybe 20 hours exra on the weekend ...
Posted in Annoyances | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
John C Welch is a compelling read. Bynkii is both represented in my Google reader account as well as on my desktop RSS reader (which is the one I mainly use). It's that good. Maybe it's because he's like the anti-Scoble or something and his liberal use of profanity means ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
From TUAW:
Hot on the heels of Auntie releasing a selection of videos for sale via the iTunes Store, we somehow missed yesterday's sneaky revelation that the BBC is intending to release some form of the BBC iPlayer for iPod touch and iPhone 'in the coming weeks.'
iPlayer is a mixed bag. ...
Posted in Commentary, Cool, Wireless, iPhone | No Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
I heard on the radio this morning that supermarkets are calling for new laws to prevent the sale of cut-price alcohol as a method of curbing the "booze epidemic".
Personally I feel that demonising drink has the effect of increasing focus on it. Making it more expensive will just mean that ...
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