Year: 2010
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2ちゃん：ドコモのiPhoneキラーの歴史
Brilliant. Note how every catchphrase but one has the word “iPhone” in it. What is the first rule of marketing again? Anyways, I checked out the Xperia at the new Sony store. As it is an Android phone, there is nothing really special to say about it from a software perspective. But I have to…
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End of paternity leave and a lesson on negative support
After six months of being the primary caretaker of my 8-month-old daughter, I am returning to the workforce. Tomorrow I hand off most daily childcare responsibilities to my wife, who had her last day of work today. I learned many things over the past half-year; as much about myself and my relationship with my wife…
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Photos from my weekend in Kyoto where it was snowing for hanami (!?).
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Photos from my weekend in Kyoto where it was snowing for hanami (!?).
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Cookies — by Douglas Adams
This is one of my favourite little apocryphal stories. Text from here. Cookies by Douglas Adams This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the…
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Sigh… This never used to happen with Macromedia. (Message upon launching newly installed trial. Needless to say, restarting does not help.)
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Sigh… This never used to happen with Macromedia. (Message upon launching newly installed trial. Needless to say, restarting does not help.)
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGk2TojOd-4?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Taking the piss out of Muslim terrorism: Four Lions (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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[blip.tv //blip.tv/play/gshVtNIUAg.x?p=1 width=”500″ height=”378″] The next time your parents/friends ask you how you have so much time to write/photo/film/make music on the internet, show them this vid. (Source: https://blip.tv/)
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Merlin Mann: Power User
Excellent hour and a half with one of the Grand Old(?) Men of the MacVerse from a new to me podcast called Mac Power User. I really like the lesson taken from the description of UNIX: Small pieces loosely joined. Pare down your tool kit with the simplest, most effective tools that can be easily…