Entries Tagged as '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 [...]
Bloggers v. The New York Times
Huh, so long ago (in 2002) David Winer made a bet with the New York Times that 5 years hence blogs would rank higher the the times on google searches for the 5 top news stories of 2007. Well it’s 2007 and someone looked into that.
It turns out that Winer was right (blogs won 3 [...]
Firefox! Grrr. Arrgg.
You know? I just noticed that I never shutdown Firefox normally now. By the time it gets to the point where I decide the crazy sluggishness of Firefox is more annoying than the number of tabs and windows that I have open in just the right places are, I know for a fact that using [...]
One last Kindle before I stop.
I know I said last one was the last, but this one’s the last. I just came across this piece (via) which talks specifically about the interface of the Kindle and how crappy it is, from a hardware perspective and it’s the kind of talk I’ve seen elsewhere so I wanted to look at it. [...]
Parallels Coherence mode busts IE’s onmouseover…
Huh. So. Parallels. Yeah… So if one were running XP on OSX via Parallels and one were testing some rollovers one might encounter this problem. The problem is that under Coherence mode IE doesn’t seem to actually register mouseover events unless a mouse button is held down - which is both annoying and wrong.
That is, [...]
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