Archive for September, 2009
This week, Loren Brichter (author of Tweetie, an ADA-Award-Winning Twitter client) touched off a firestorm of a debate when he announced Tweetie 2 for the iPhone would be a paid upgrade. The price? All of US $3. Jackasssery ensued.
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I want to say a few things about my last post. Specifically, I don’t believe all followers of organized religions are crazy assholes. In fact, I respect some of those I know personally. Also, the same (crazy asshole) is true of atheists. Let me explain.
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Okay, it’s becoming annoying. I mean really annoying. The radio commercials that end in “Not a sermon, just a thought,” after delivering what is exactly, undeniably a sermon.
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It was inevitable. The Ziplight spotlight plugin has been rendered superfluous by a built-in Archives.mdimporter that ships with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Since OS X 10.4′s release, so many asked “why on earth didn’t Apple include the ability to search inside zip files?” The answer may shock you.
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After complaining bitterly about its price and insisting I’d need the largest model for ocular comfort (I have vision problems), I found I couldn’t stop thinking about the advantages of having a Kindle. I was spurred on by a recent discussion with coworkers about the device. So I dug in and did some real research.
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