quotidian

Got To Feel Real

C makes me feel like an engineer, Python makes me feel like a developer, LISP makes me feel like a mad scientist.

@ianschenck

Invincible

I will restore your sense of childlike wonder. There is nothing you can do to stop me.

"Fake Steve Jobs"

Imagine, Grasshopper, What It Would Be To Live Such A Strange, Sad Life

No matter how hard Apple strives to make Microsoft look uncool, one fact remains: Microsoft owns the desktop.

lifehacker.com
Article: "Microsoft Gives Up, Strips Default Apps from Windows 7"

I'll Say

Time moves very slowly at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)...

Andy Budd
CSS Mastery
2006, p8

Safari Throwdown!

Safari offers two plans: Safari Library and Safari Bookshelf. Safari Library offers complete unlimited access to all content including video, Rough Cuts, and Safari How To on Safari Labs. Safari Bookshelf does not include video, Rough Cuts, or Safari How To and limits how much book content can be viewed at one time.

O'Reilly (Safari Books Online)

- VERSUS -

Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web faster than any browser.

Apple web site

Welcome, Future

>iljitsch: "I don't want any of this stuff on the web, that's way too insecure."

eh, you might have a problem with this thing called "the future" then. your banking info, investments, health records, etc. are all on the web...you can't have your calendar there? cloud computing baby, bring it on...

Post by Rich88 on Ars Technica

Anonymity is the New Fame

I'm going to go to haro552, whoever that is...

Steve Jobs
Macworld 2008 Keynote Address

An Alternative View

In response to the comment: "It's a safe bet that those paper books will last far longer than any hard drive that you store files on"...

Well maintained, redundant archives should last forever - the ability to copy reliably is equivalent to imortality. I have not lost a single file in the last eight years and I have all of my mail going back 20. Devices may and have failed me but my work, letters, photographs and music has survived and grown. They can be passed on to my kids but books will be too bulky for the same. Every library is overflowing with the result of estate overflow. Some put them on the shelf as a "free library" the majority goes to the paper mill to make TP. Such is the sad fate of your paper media and this is why public libraries are important repositories of culture. In the end, not even libraries last forever. All civilizations have their down time and public libraries are often torched. The entire library of the ancient western world, for example, now fits on a single six by twelve foot shelf because the vast majority of it was lost. The US Library of Congres itself is rotting as we speak. Digital libraries will be much hardier than this.

gnutoo
posting on Slashdot user forum
5/8/08

Not Hot Air

Robert Kennedy Jr says the American midwest is the Saudi Arabia of wind.

Graydon Carter
Vanity Fair, May 2008, p62

I Have To Admit It's True

Those fuckin' geniuses are never available.

Cheryl Swanson
overheard conversation in re dissatisfactions with Apple Genius Bar