Category Archives: General

I just saw this comment while reading an article about David Letterman: This article is poorly done. It uses sweeping generalizations, it is factually incorrect in several areas, and shows a general misunderstanding of television. … I  enjoyed reading the … Continue reading →

I’m puzzled that this doesn’t seem to have a uk release date (or even a distributor as far as I can see) The trailer looks great: http://www.apple.com/trailers/summit/thebrothersbloom/ http://www.brothersbloom.com/

I picked up a copy of Wired UK yesterday and I started reading it this morning while I was eating my breakfast. So far I’m impressed, it feels solid, there’s plenty of interesting looking stuff and I liked the infographics … Continue reading →

DRM is stealing stories from the eyes of children. Spotted recently while reading a forum (which sadly doesn’t allow direct linking as far as I can see)

Recently seen in a Reddit thread: Upvoted for completely incomprehensible analogy.

Interesting early signs of improvement in Detroit. People are buying and renovating the unoccupied and abandoned houses: Mitch and Gina have already been approached by some Germans who want to build a giant two-story-tall beehive.

I ran into a problem in the last few days with YouTube. I would visit the site, but every video I tried to watch displayed the message “we’re sorry the video is no longer available”. Other people seem to have … Continue reading →

I was in the supermarket the other day looking for juice, only to find that the regular own brand wasn’t available! A disaster that was only averted when I realized that they were carrying a new branded juice instead. But … Continue reading →

SamKnows has an article on some limitations that exist for 3g mobile internet access. (using usb dongles). The killer is the limit for total bandwidth, as low as sharing 6.75 Mbits/s between everyone connecting to a single base station. I … Continue reading →

I happened to attend a lecture today at the RSSA given by Roger Lockwood who the head of the Northern Lighthouse Board. The board manages and maintains lighthouses and other navigational aids around Scotland (and for various reasons the Isle … Continue reading →

Randall Munroe (of xkcd) gave a talk at Google.

The Onion on a new Mac … 🙂 They got that Mac tradeshow look so perfectly too.

The iPhone Shuffle, (Advert 1) (Advert 2) (Advert 3) 🙂 Plus the obligatory Wired.com article (a bit more serious though)

In movies like Airplane! the pilots have all been incapacitated and a desperate call goes around “is there a pilot on board?” To which some brave soul then stands up and says something like, “Yes I can fly the plane”. … Continue reading →

I was looking at my wallet and I realized that I have a whole collection of loyalty cards. Am I really loyal to all of them? I don’t think I can be, since some of them are for direct competitors.

This post from yesterday on the cocoa-dev list seems to suggest that it is. I wonder what is happening? (Although it doesn’t affect me much because I’m still not doing iPhone development at all yet)