December 2010
29 posts
New Year
It’s the last day of 2010. Just want to take the time to wish one and all a Happy New Year.
Be safe and have an enjoyable and bless time.
nikf.org: The Problem With Ping →
nikf:
It’s the end of the year, and every blog out there has its own 10 Top Failures to write about. Making almost every list out there is iTunes Ping - Apple’s widely-slated Music Social network. It’s easy to knock Ping (I’ll admit I’ve made a few in-person potshots about ‘the irony of the world’s…
Robbery
The speed at which the police and Elton passed me with last night, led me to one conclusion. Bobby’s supermarket in East End was robbed again.
This is getting out of hand, and becoming really dangerous for his employees and customers. How many robberies before someone gets seriously hurt? So what is Elton doing to protect his employees from all this robberies that has been going on at his...
“For everything we take, someone else must give.”
– Patrick Rhone
There is a reason for that self-quote above. A few days ago, I was reviewing my modest goals for last year and that is a paraphrase of the last sentence in that post. I have been reflecting on it ever since. I now think it should have been my only goal for last year, as it really does...
Internet Explorer
The first thing i did when we got our new computer at the front desk, was to download Google Chrome, and a few other items to make my computing experience a little better. Being forced to use IE is really a pain in places i rather not describe. A few days later, i was asked to delete them from the computer, as the tech guy who had just come in to install the new software for the hotel, said these...
Threewords
Haven’t really figured out the usefulness of this, but here goes. Select the link below and describe me in three words.
http://threewords.me/countryboy
Now get going
Top 10 Tech Failures of 2010
marco:
Something from Apple that everyone loves
Something else from Apple that everyone loves
Your favorite cellular telephone
Something Facebook did
Something Google launched
A crappy tablet nobody has ever heard of
Microsoft’s latest initiative
Desktop Linux
Michael Arrington
Ping
There. That should generate some pageviews.
Ben Brook has a nice write Here up about CNN and a few...
People Who Touch Your Junk Venn →
Something to think about
The Unbearable Inevitability of Being Android,... →
So the Android crusaders will be circling us in 2011, swinging their $85 smartswords to demand our capitulation in a rapture of inevitability. Inevitable like Knoll, Orkut, Froogle, Lively, Health, NoteBook, SideWiki, Answers, Wave, Buzz, Nexus…like an army of 41 shades of blue. No matter. Resistance is futile.
Another must read by Kontra
A Thinner iPad Does Not Make a Better iPad →
I have never heard someone pick up an iPad and say: “Wow this thing is thick.” I have heard many pick up an iPad and say: “Wow this is kind of heavy.”
I’m still holding out for an iPad, maybe hopefully when version 2 comes out i could snag a version 1 on the cheap.
Here It Is, The Definitive NYC Snow Storm Photo →
Happy Holidays
It’s been an interesting year for me, and it is not coming to an end, so i just want to take the time to wish everyone Happy Holidays. Hope all goes well for you
CHANGES ARE COMING – faster and faster →
Someone posted this link to my inbox today. As someone who spends a lot of time online, I am quite aware of these changes. However, as someone who is living in the Caribbean that doesn’t have US attach to it, I keep running into a few road blocks. For instance, try buying your music from iTunes, or even Amazon (MP3) or you have your iPhone, iPod touch and want to buy apps for it. How about...
Ten Things I Have Learned →
Just came across this from Milton Glaser. Thought I should share it.
YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE
IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.
SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.
LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.
STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.
ON AGING
TELL...
Hidden - The most advanced theft tracking software... →
minimalmac:
Hidden is an app that can help you track your Mac if ever stolen. Just install it and if, for instance, someone pockets your shiny new MacBook Air, you can log onto the web app, mark it as stolen, and it will start tracking it’s location as well as take screenshots and iSight pics of the perp.
Why am I telling you about it now? Well, it’s Free until January. This is a pretty good...
Skype Details Problems, Says May Take Hours to Fix →
Via: Ina Fried
Skype said in an update posted to Twitter that things are slowly getting back up and running.
“Skype is now gradually returning to normal–we expect it may take several hours for everyone to be able to sign in again, however,” it said.
Well i haven’t been able to use Skype for most of the afternoon, it was amazing I was able to get through on a call even though it was...
Receipt
guy walks into the office, has heavy french accent…whish explains why i didn’t really understand him at first, he came asking for a receipt from the hotel for last night.
Not knowing who he was i asked him to get his ID so i could get him his receipt, he went on the boat and came back with his passport. So now i’m here searching the system for his name to print him his...
Wish list (updated)
I know it’s a bit late for a wish list, I really wasn’t planning on doing one, but my girlfriend has been bugging me about what I want for Christmas, and seeing that my birthday is also in a couple weeks I think i’ll just go ahead and do this.
So in no particular order here is my list:
iPad
iPod touch 4 generation (preferable 32GB)
A watch
Wallet
Cologne
...
Passwords - 10 Tips for Developing a Personal... →
My girlfriend is one of those people who uses one password with everything, trying to get her to change the ones that are associated with her credit card and bank stuff.
Dvorak angered by iPad’s popularity, abandons... →
Election Time (update)
Vincentian time to go to the poll and decide if they want to keep ULP in office or return NDP back in. Results in a few hours.
ULP won 8 to NDP 7, means that ULP lost four seats from the last election, forming government with a slim majority.
Tea’d Off →
There is an old Republican saying that “a government strong enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have.”
American politics is in a very sad state at the moment, good to see that there are still folk out there who aren’t being brain washed by Glen Beck and others like him.
Minimal Mac: An Open Letter to Tumblr →
minimalmac:
Dear Tumblr,
I really love you as a blogging platform. I don’t really think I could have started Minimal Mac as quickly as I did, nor keep up with posting regular content as easily, on any other platform. In fact, I still feel this is the case. I really do feel that if I switched to Wordpress or…
Outage
This wasn’t a very good day for Tumblr, being down for an entire day. I’m glad that everything is finally back up and running. Let’s hope that this long outage doesn’t happen again.
“In the same period, Apple’s iOS has seen its Web browsing share tracked by...”
– Here’s an example of how to draw the entirely wrong conclusion from your own data. Given that we know that iOS sales are only increasing, and we know RIM’s share is decreasing, could it possibly be that the reason iOS browser usage (and note this is specifically about browser usage, not “internet”...
“Give an unemployed person a dollar, and she tends to spend it, because she needs...”
– It turns out that giving unemployed people a little money is the best way to help get the economy back on track. This is, of course, the exact opposite of what the Republican obstructionists are preaching — that rich people go out and hire when they get the tax cuts they paid for this past...
“Using Stage Video, we’ve seen laptops play smooth 1080p HD video with just over...”
– The 10.2 Flash player beta is focused on performance but this seems like a bold claim indeed.
I hear the internal builds were called “win Gruber back, we promise, baby, we’ve changed”.
(via jimray)
Don’t know how true that last part statement is, but i really made me laugh. Like Gruber...