- Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now! – Despite multiple failures there has been no significant release of radiation.
- Japan Earthquake: before and after – Amazing and shocking.
- Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors – I did think that the coverage suggesting a nuclear disaster was unlikely. This explains why my intuition was (probably) right.
Tag Archives: News
All New!
This week I’ve released updates to all three of my iPhone and iPad apps.
Yummy and Yummy Browser, my Delicious.com client, see the release of a big update: version 2.6.0. It includes a completely new bookmark viewing and editing screen, a new bookmark list view, updates to help syncing reliability and lots of smaller tweaks and updates. It’s the biggest gap between any two major releases but I think is a good one.
The www.cut update is much smaller, but includes the new Facebook API (looks the same!) and some minor aesthetic tweaks.
Hidden, and not mentioned in the release notes for any of the apps, is a crash reporter. Apple do push crash logs into their developer interface, but they do seem to skip some and it only ever happens when users sync their phones to iTunes — something that people seem to be doing less and less. I’ve seen reviews and support mails from people mentioning crashes but not seen the crash reports — which makes it really difficult to diagnose a problem. Hopefully you’ll never see it, but now they’ll prompt you to send the log directly to me after a crash.
However, even with that it’s still worth pinging me a support email if you see something amiss. Firstly, if it doesn’t crash I still won’t see it. And, secondly, the crash reports come without any context. Seeing which line of code is causing a problem is very useful but without knowing how you get there it can be very difficult to correctly diagnose and fix a problem.
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 23rd through February 24th
- Christchurch earthquake – Shocking stuff, made all the more real by the great images.
- Why Last Week’s Solar Storm Was a Dud – "If the plasma’s magnetic field is parallel to the Earth’s, the incoming charged particles are effectively blocked from entering Earth’s magnetosphere. An identical flare with a perpendicular magnetic field would have triggered a much stronger storm."
My delicious.com bookmarks for February 15th through February 18th
- Apple’s Three Laws of Developers – The hidden link from sci-fi books to the App Store. Only funny because it's true…
- Biting the source that feeds you – "Keller, a journalist of unimpeachable accomplishment and stature, just had to trash a guy whose organization has struck the most powerful blow against official secrecy in a generation, somebody who may yet be jailed for what he did, an eccentric but unquestionably transformational media player."
My delicious.com bookmarks for December 1st through December 3rd
- It’s not an arsenic-based life form – Apparently ET is not visiting any time soon but it's still pretty cool.
- Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners’ wishes) – Nice piece about WikiLeaks and why, despite what some politicians will tell you, it's a good thing.
My delicious.com bookmarks for September 10th through September 16th
- Pope adviser calls UK a Third World Country, deploys racism, then says atheists are aggressive – "The Vatican said the cardinal had not intended 'any kind of slight', and was referring to the UK's multicultural society." Well that's okay, then. (Not.)
- Why parents can’t do maths today – Article on how they teach arithmetic in British schools. I think the interesting thing is that approaches to both long division and multiplication are now more heuristics than algorithms.