Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Darth Vader said:
"Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong."
Tom Raftery, on the other hand, recently converted to the Mac and tried out Microsoft's World Wide Telescope which was released this ...
Posted in Commentary, Mac, Made me laugh | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
People are cranky not because of their personality or temperament (like me!) but because they feel The Squeeze, daily, moment-by-moment. They have had their ability to enjoy life drained away from them. They can feel that they’re all on a treadmill they never chose — or expected — and one ...
Posted in Commentary, Do Something Now | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
The big news about iPhone OS 2.0, due this summer, will be how much time Apple has been distracted from 'making the best phone ever' to 'kicking RIM's ass'.
The stuff we know about iPhone OS 2.0 is that it supports VPNs (PPTP, L2TP/IPSec), SecureID and it's going to do ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Microsoft is turning the store off. Your files will be locked to the machines you have registered.
That's what you get for trusting Redmond.
From The Times
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums ...
Posted in Annoyances | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Eirepreneur writes With no plans for wireless internet service is Irish Rail really "getting there"?
...getting back to the issue of onboard broadband Will Knott believes Irish Rail are missing the opportunity to make a lot of money, "and the mobile carriers are missing out by leaving 'coverage holes' on the ...
Posted in Bedouin, Commentary, Wireless | No Comments »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Or I would have loved it when I was younger!
From IceCreamIrelandwe’re looking for a production assistant for the summer, with the possibility of the position becoming permanent.
...Baking or other food background helpful, and love of ice cream a must!
Ah, to be young!
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Microsoft has always treated the Mac as a second class citizen and the bugs in Office 2008 are just added icing on the cake.
Back when I started using the Mac, there was Word. It wasn't known as Microsoft Word to me, it was just Word, it was the word processor ...
Posted in Annoyances | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Though he's been exceedingly coy with where he's moved to, he leaves us with the story that he has, indeed, moved on.
His blog post about his reasons is absolutely tragic and highlights some of the issues faced by individuals working in large companies. I can't comment on some of ...
Posted in Commentary | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Man, I have a bee in my bonnet about this.
There is nothing I'd rather do than give up this day job with $BIG_COMPANY and survive on my writing while I whiled away the days trying to learn to code to maybe build an app that I want. Apparently (according to ...
Posted in Commentary, Do Something Now, Startup | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Apple released beta5 of the iPhone SDK and quietly opened iPhone Developer registration to the public so that everyone can load their code onto their iPhones and give them a go. The updates SDK is winging it's way to me at 1495K/sec right now which means I'll be able to ...
Posted in Code, Commentary, iPhone | No Comments »