Entries Tagged as 'rant'
Palm Foleo, meh.
Well, huh. Palm brings the world the Foleo. It seems to be a laptop. Well, a subnotebook really. A laptop that runs linux. That is “the most exciting product I have ever worked on” that Jeff Hawkins has ever worked on is laptop that runs linux.
Palm may not be aware, but there have been many [...]
The Highline Festival
So, we went to the Highline Festival last night. There were three bands. Kate Havnevik was eh, kinda Bjorky but lacking any edge or insanity. TV on the Radio was really good except for the overpowering falsetto singing that came in periodically and the fact that the lead singer is made of cartilege (ok that [...]
Palm’s take on Palm OS vs. WinMob
Ok, so they stopped posting about the blog itself and started posting about the product. Which is good. They posted a hand-wavey, excuse making bit about why the 700p is so late with fixes for (some of) the problems that have plagued it from the very beginning. But whatever, it’s no surprise that they couldn’t [...]
Card talks about the Ender’s Game movie
I just read this article that puts forth Orson Scott Card’s thoughts on the status of the Ender’s Game movie (as always via sfsignal). This is definitely in my top 3 sci-fi novels and I would love to see this turned into a great movie. Nevertheless I have extremely strong doubts that anyone would take [...]
More Meh from O’Reilly
I just read Tim’s latest “remove the web developer and the web gets developed” piece where he comments on the notion that artists’ MySpace pages are often more current and maintained than their regular web pages. Apparently he has just had the shocking epiphany that:
MySpace is actually a kind of blogging platform, too, just a [...]
Phones on a Plane
There’s something about Computerworld articles that just rub me the wrong way, even when I largely agree with them. Check it out, here they post a little something about why we still are not allowed to use phones on a plane.
Their basic point is that phones are banned officially for two possible reasons, they may [...]
Categories: rant
I got your code right here
So the bloggers are all worked up over Tim O’Reilly’s misguided blogger code of conduct. Seriously, he wrote a code of conduct, granted it was in response to some pretty bad conduct, but are we all in 5th grade?
Bloggers seem to be lining up behind it, but there’s a staunch and very reasonable group who [...]
The joys of go-to myths
As a perl developer I am all to familiar with people’s reflexive need to bring up old stereotypes and myths about perl at every conceivable opportunity. I could go on at length about this, but actually I already did (it was the first post I ever made on this blog). :)
I am realizing now that [...]
CS3
So awhile ago there was a lot of crap about all the new CS3 icons being all boxy. As though a feather and an orange flower are so easy to use, I’ll bet you a whole lotta money that if you showed people the feather icon and the flower and then the same people the [...]
A Li’l ZenZui Beefin’
After my post yesterday, I was perusing the ZenZui product page a little bit and it really started to annoy me. First off, I really love that a Microsoft site gets bitten by the ol’ Microsoft copy-and-paste to web problem where all single and double quotes turn into question marks (I know it isn’t technically [...]
