Gruber point to an article that tracks down pundits who thought the iPhone would fail, and asks them what they think now. One guy was surprised by the success. Translation: everyone else wrote that the iPhone wasn’t worth it, but fully expected it to succeed. This says something about their Jeremiah-like journalism or their complete [...]
Tagged Apple, The InternetJeff Atwood thinks that iTunes is Anti-Web: Is it so unreasonable to expect links in your browser to resolve to, oh, I don’t know, web pages containing information about the thing you just clicked on? Is there anything more anti-web than demanding users install custom software to display information that could have just as easily [...]
Tagged Apple, Technology, The InternetGood Idea Setting up a family tree on Geni. It’s like a little Facebook for your relatives. You click and add your siblings, your parents, their siblings, etc. Then you can post what’s new, share photos, plan events, and all that fun stuff. Bad Idea Doing this when you’re my coworker from Hungary, whose wife [...]
Tagged Family, Technology, The InternetI first met Mitchell in 1998 at my local AM PM. I’m not sure what brought me in that fateful day, but I know that I left with 52 ounces of Mountain Dew and a new companion. From the day forward, Mitchell and I would be inseparable. Here’s a picture of Mikayla and Mitchell. He’s [...]
Tagged FamilyOther the past week I’ve been writing some code for work that has to happen periodically and then re-schedule itself so it can happen again. We never want two of this process running, and we want the process to automagically expand its time window if it takes longer than we think it should, because arbitrary [...]
Tagged Computing, ProgrammingI’m a big fan of Trac, and I use it for project management when I’m given the choice. It has a few issues, but nothing a little plugin magic can’t fix. On of my favorite plugins is TracRedirect, which allows me to make one page point to another and make the browser redirect there, so [...]
Tagged ProgrammingThe Get Out Clause is (apparently; I’d never heard of them before) a band in Manchester. They have no contract, and no money to put together a music video. But what they do have is time and a pretty good song. So they sung their song in front of lots of CCTVs and then requested [...]
Tagged The InternetThere are already approximately seventeen million reviews of Matthew Yglesias’ new book, Heads in the Sand, so I figured one more wouldn’t hurt. Yglesias is one of my must-read bloggers; when I’m behind a few days, I’ll plow through his feed first because he makes great points, ties it into the larger picture, and doesn’t [...]
Tagged Book Review, PoliticsJohn Siracusa recently lamented the loss of one of his classic OS add-ons; the ability to center the current window onscreen via a global key combo. Well, the global key combo can be had in any number of ways, but here’s an AppleScript that’ll do it for you. It finds the screen size using the [...]
Tagged Computing, ProgrammingDaniel Jacob: My nephew, aged 5 days. Congratulations, Fred!
Tagged Family