Archive for May, 2008

MySpace Internet Predator indicted

Friday, May 16th, 2008

ENN.ie with the news: "A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, from Missouri, for her alleged role in the hoax on the social network against her 13 year-old neighbour Megan Meier who committed suicide. Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account with a false identity to contact Meier, ...

Hyperconnected

Friday, May 16th, 2008

A stunning piece of advertorial from InfoWorld via Nortel's sponsored IDC survey. a considerable number of what it calls "hyperconnected" users ... those using at least seven devices and nine applications ... accounted for 16 percent of the population in the study Behind the hyperconnected were the "increasingly connected," who use four ...

No excuse now…

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is now available on Amazon's US store. UK store to follow. This coincides nicely with my "Thursday Is Code Night In Bangor" plans. I already have second edition but I'd like third edition because things have changed. That said - even third ...

I had a dream last night…

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I was on stage at WWDC presenting some new feature of the iPhone 2.0 and things were going really well. The Steve seemed pleased anyway and didn't throw a camera at me. In the audience were a lot of my friends and also 5000-odd people I didn't know. And then someone ...