7 Habits of Highly Successful People
Friday, April 11th, 2008A bit of satire for a Friday afternoon courtesy of McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Skiing Yachting Snorkeling Golf Polo Dinner parties Shopping
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A bit of satire for a Friday afternoon courtesy of McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Skiing Yachting Snorkeling Golf Polo Dinner parties Shopping
Microsoft extending XP to 2010
Friday, April 4th, 2008Beleaguered software vendor Microsoft is adding a couple of years to their spurned child, Windows XP::'Michael Dix, head of Windows client product management, tells the story, "One thing we've heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of ...
Nokia Ireland parties like it’s 1999. Or 2001.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008ENN's Ciara O'Brien writes: "Nokia is challenging Apple in the digital music market with a new online music store aimed at Irish customers. ... Tracks from the Nokia Music Store are compatible with any device that plays Windows Media Audio files (wma), which are embedded with Microsoft's digital rights management technology. However, iPods ...
Venture Capitalism
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Just over two years ago, I wrote about Venture Capitalists and how their use these days was not the money but rather their contacts; it was their address book and not their cheque book that entrepreneurs should be interested in and, to this day, I agree. That's not to say ...
Do not go gentle into that good night
Monday, March 24th, 2008"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas I'm not talking about 'death' of course, but the notion that 'going dark' is desirable. I recall someone accusing me of being addicted to the Internet which, despite being true, is also utterly ...
Loonies all around
Friday, March 21st, 2008"I see that you yourself are from Belgium. One can hardly imagine a more America-hating socialist European nation than that."
Simplicity and the Brand
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I love this. It's a very simple and concise way of showing how bad user interface design can be and it draws on our experiences with media darlings Apple and Google. While the implementation details may differ (entering a search term is very different to submitting taxes), there have to ...
nerdz
Thursday, March 20th, 2008PeeJ noted this link to The Nerd Handbook: Really it's a couple of pages describing how to meaninfully interact with a nerd who is painted for the most part as being a borderline Autistic with directional (and somewhat immutable) focus. ...control issues mean your nerd is sensitive to drastic changes in his ...
Re: iPhone Developer Access
Saturday, March 15th, 2008I love being right. :) Like I was here Apple says (emphasis mine) Dear Registered iPhone Developer, Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during ...
Been denied iPhone developer access?
Friday, March 14th, 2008Chill the fuck out According to TUAW, there are thousands of angry developers (online, select, premier, solo, corporate) who have been denied early access to Firmware 2.0 and the App Store and, more importantly, ability to load apps onto the iPhone. Is anyone really surprised? Only yesterday, Macrumors reported that someone had hacked ...