Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
My copy of "iPhone Open Application Development" arrived in my hands today after spending a couple of weeks in the Mac-Sys office. It's a slim tome compared to the other Cocoa books I have but I understand where it fits in and it's a nice little addition to the collection. ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
From the biscuit, the command-line meme:
On my Mac:
MacBook-Pro:~ mjohnstn$ history | awk '{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] " " i}' | sort -rn | head -10
69 cd
55 ssh
42 ls
38 ping
37 say
31 top
23 ifconfig
23 curl
19 sftp
15 whois
I must say, Steve is a 'ls' freak.
Posted in Commentary, Made me laugh | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Twinkle is the first iPhone product I'm looking forward to. Though it's Twitter-based and could be opened to being a blogging client, it has the essentials -
support for the camera
support for conversations
support for locations!
Looking forward to June!
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
At 2.20 am, ninety-six years ago, the Titanic sank.
Since then, it's been pretty much public knowledge that Northern Ireland make a big deal out of crap.
I mean, look at George Best. His feet had more action off the field than on it, even when he was sober enough to stand, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
"One thing I’ve come to realize is that urgency is overrated. In fact, I’ve come to believe urgency is poisonous. Urgency may get things done a few days sooner, but what does it cost in morale? Few things burn morale like urgency. Urgency is acidic.
Emergency is the only urgency. Almost ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I spent a couple of hours last night playing Mario Kart Wii against a few friends - one in Mallusk and two in London. I've written it up here on Lategaming.
It's a good game. You should try it.
Posted in Cool, Games, Made me laugh, Review | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I'm guessing this is a hack of the Youtube iPhone system
Not unlike the BBC iPlayer hack
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
"But there +is+ value in having a great group of people you’re following. Follow @craignewmark and you’ll see what Craig is seeing or thinking (he’s the founder of Craigs’ List). Follow @pierre and you’ll see what he’s thinking (he’s the founder of eBay). Follow HRBlock and you’ll see what the ...
Posted in Annoyances, Social | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
via 37Signals signal versus noise
“To curtail Japan’s overweight population, the Japanese health ministry recently mandated that all waistlines among its 56 million workers over age 40 be below ‘regulation size’ of 33.5 inches (for men). Any company failing to bring its employees’ weight under control — as well as the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Sebastiaan at the Cocoia blog goes off on one about Helvetica
Erik Spiekermann, a great type designer, was asked in the eponymous Helvetica movie;
“Why, 50 years later, is [Helvetica] still so popular?”
Erik stares into space a few seconds, pondering, sighs, then answers:
— “I don’t know… Why is bad taste ubiquitous?”
Times like ...
Posted in Annoyances | 8 Comments »