White House Blog Annoyance
Thursday, 29 January 2009On inauguration day, while the internet was atwitter about the switchover of whitehouse.gov, I subscribed to The White House Blog. I wasn’t sure if it would stick, honestly, because my patience for political PR is pretty darn thin. So far, though, I’ve found the posting frequency to be very manageable, and the rhetoric hasn’t gotten too hot [...]
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Bible Quote of the Moment
Monday, 26 January 2009In the years that I have had this blog, I’m not sure if I’ve ever posted a Bible quote before. I’m fairly sure that I’ve never had one as a standalone post. I’m not exactly sure why, but religion is not a part of my life that I’m very comfortable sharing in this forum. But [...]
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Remember the Milk…
Thursday, 22 January 2009For a few months, I used Remember the Milk (RTM) as my task manager. This is a brief review. Let me start off by saying that I basically liked Remember the Milk. It’s a web app, but it has excellent keyboard shortcuts, is very Ajax-y, and has an automagic offline mode using Google Gears that is [...]
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009What a day. There are no words. My favorite quote, out of many, from Obama’s speech today: Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism [...]
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Microsoft’s Destruction of Their Ecosystem
Tuesday, 20 January 2009A long time ago, I wrote about my love of the independent developer ecosystem for Mac OS X. I continue to be amazed that Mac OS X, with a minority (albeit, growing) share of the PC market, can have such a great, vibrant, thriving community of independent developers, compared to what I remember from my Windows days. [...]
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I Got an iPhone!
Thursday, 15 January 2009So, after 18 months of waiting, I got an iPhone. Which seems like a good excuse to embed my favorite David Pogue video of all time: After a week and a half, the verdict? I love it. Worth noting: The screen is terrific. It is bright and (apparently) high resolution — easy to read even [...]
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