Entries Tagged as 'rant'
On Facebook’s “Death Spiral”
Oh the problems of success. I was just reading this PCMag piece suggestively entitled “Facebook’s Death Spiral” (tinyurl’d so I don’t pass any link love to this crap article). While I certainly believe that Facebook suffers no shortage of hype, I was curious that they’d already be in a death spiral, no? I figured it [...]
On our unhealthy obsession with features
In the wonderful world of electronics, consumers seem to have an obsession with features - “on paper, this thing is awesome!” I think it is encouraged by the producers of electronics who can then very easily show comparison charts of how they have more features than their competitors. This in turn, encourages consumers to start [...]
Categories: rant
Services for mobile apps that shouldn’t need services…
This most recent RIM outage has pissed off Blackberry users again. For 3.5 hours in the middle of monday they lost their email because RIM was doing an upgrade gone wrong. Let’s put aside why RIM was doing a major upgrade on a monday afternoon as only a symptom of a greater problem. The greater [...]
The Senate handed the White House a major victory today
Sigh.
I don’t like to get overly political here, but still… this is ridiculous…
Who needs privacy? Who needs civil liberties? Not Americans. Apparently that’s what our elected officials believe. The NYTimes is reporting on the Senate putting a big, fat stamp of approval on Bush’s previously illegal wiretapping without a warrant schemes. FISA retroactively gives [...]
Categories: homeland security · politics · privacy · rant
Linus Torvalds and the Apple dis
UPDATED Tue Feb 12 13:59:54 EST 2008
I read some reporting on Linus’ comments on how the Mac is in some ways worse than windows. The soundbyte for the article was that the filesystem was “complete and utter crap”. A few things - first he didn’t call Apple crap, he called its file system crap (I [...]
Airplane on a Conveyor Belt. ARGH!
Y’know, surprisingly, I just got around to catching this. Ok, I just caught part 2 on the youtubes (below). This is an unspeakably annoying busting (but I will speak on it anyway). The spirit of the myth is that if the plane isn’t moving but the engines going will it take off. This just proves [...]
Why does my iPhone mail suck?
Y’know. I wasn’t really going to post anything about this, but I brought it up with Scott who’s having the same problem and he said I should post it. So here it is.
Why the hell does my iPhone’s mail not sync up unless I actually open the mail app? Why is there a setting that [...]
Bloggers v. Print Media, round 809832
It’s been a tough week for print media… the bloggers have been ganging up on them again. First I stumbled across this TechCrunch piece - If “Real Journalism†Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In? It actually was an interesting read - it talked about whether the tough times print media is having now [...]
Gizmodo’s prank, Civil Disobedience??
I like Gizmodo a lot - Google Reader Trends tells me so. But their prank at CES, was, in my opinion in poor taste and I felt that the banning of one member was a reasonable and measured response. And then I kinda forgot about it… but now Gizmodo has put up there post in [...]
NetSol and Domain Front Running
I remember when Network Solutions was the only game in town for domain registration - man, that was the worst. They were expensive (although we didn’t now it at the time), their online tools for registering and maintaining your domains sucked and their customer service suuuuhuuuuuucked. Then came the big bang after which there were [...]
