- June 22, 1783: Icelandic Volcano Disrupts Europe’s Economy – It's not just 2010 where this was a problem…
- WWDC – The Acceleration – "But at one point everything exploded and there was no way to keep up with all the new API:s and all the new things Java was attempting to do. I feel that we’re approaching that point with iOS (formerly known as the iPhone OS)." As someone who does this in my spare time, this is certainly something that I'm feeling right now!
- I’m Comic Sans, Asshole – Your favourite font responds to criticism…
Tag Archives: history
My delicious.com bookmarks for June 2nd through June 6th
- iPad App Pricing – Nice analysis of iPad and iPhone application pricing.
- The Value of Ideas – "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything." Or actions speak louder than words.
- The IBM Muppet Show – "IBM. The Muppets. Two venerable institutions-but not ones we tend to associate with each other. Yet in the late 1960s, before most people had ever seen a computer in person or could identify a Muppet on sight, the two teamed up when IBM contracted with Jim Henson for a series of short films designed to help its sales staff."
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 2nd through February 7th
- Arab society’s crunch points – Interesting talk about the Middle East and how change might be made. Hint: it doesn't involve "regime change."
- iPhone-to-iPad development: How’s the timing going to work out? – "We have very little guidance on how iPad apps should behave, and if we want our apps to be in the store at its launch, we have to do the majority of development without ever running our code on a real iPad (or even having used one)."
My delicious.com bookmarks for January 16th through January 22nd
- Realism in UI Design – "The more realistic something is, the harder it is to figure out the meaning."
- Jan. 19, 1983: Apple Gets Graphic With Lisa – And without the Lisa there wouldn't have been the Mac…
- Googlephone No Match for Kafkaesque Carriers – Steven Levy finds that mobile (cell) carriers are all evil… I wish this was an isolated problem but it seems to happen everywhere. Does anyone actually like their provider?
Best Posts of 2009
It’s that time of year where all the papers, magazines and websites devolve into the best of the year articles rather than actually generate new content. I didn’t want to feel left out so here’s my contribution.
Of course “best” can mean any number of different things, so I’m going to pick a few top fives.
Here are the most popular pages viewed this year:
- Installing Oracle 10g Express Edition on CentOS 4
- Professionalism
- Oracle 8i for Linux Installation HOWTO
- Minolta Dual Scan II
- Review: Belkin Wi-Fi Phone
It continues to surprise me how popular the Oracle pages are. They are now very old products and the pages have not been updated for quite some time now.
And here are the most popular pages that were actually written this year:
Of course my personal favourites don’t always make the grade in terms of page views, so here are my choices (in no particular order this time):
If there’s a theme here, it’s photography and the kinds of pictures that I don’t normally take.
My delicious.com bookmarks for December 22nd through December 27th
- Separating Explosives from the Detonator – A sensible response to the pants bomber…
- Google ‘open’ memo betrays deep corporate delusion – "Aside from Apple, no tech outfit is more secretive about what goes on inside the company."
- Q: “Once in a blue moon” is a rare event. But what does “blue moon” really mean? – These things are never as simple as you think they should be…