99c

July 31st, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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This ain’t gonna win me any friends, but I hon­estly would like an answer to the ques­tion. I con­stantly hear iPhone devel­op­ers bemoan­ing that they are “stuck in a 99 cent ghetto.” So, my ques­tion is: what pre­cisely do you want Apple to do about that? Because any answer that I can think of amounts to price fixing.

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Terminology

July 28th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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I’m going to junk punch the next whiny dolt I hear say­ing that “Apple killed the Google Voice app for ‘no good rea­son.’” You may not like it, but lim­it­ing com­pe­ti­tion is a per­fectly good rea­son. Stop con­fus­ing your own wants with moral certitude.

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Palm: Insane, or Batshit Insane?

July 24th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

There has always been a hint of men­tal ill­ness at Palm. From their habit of break­ing third party appli­ca­tion com­pat­i­bil­ity with each hard­ware release, to treat­ing expand­able stor­age in such an incom­pre­hen­si­ble way that I don’t think that any­one ever really fig­ured out how it worked, to the bizarre chain of buy – outs, merg­ers and acqui­si­tions that make Palm’s own­er­ship his­tory look more com­pli­cated than the Habsburg fam­ily tree; it’s always been appar­ent to out­side observers that there has to be some­thing in the water over at Palm HQ. But none of Palm’s pre­vi­ous shenani­gans holds a can­dle to the cur­rent whacky antics that they are dis­play­ing over the Palm Pre and its Media Sync functionality.

For the unin­formed: when Palm first announced the Pre, one of its highly pro­moted fea­tures was Media Sync. Which pro­vided the abil­ity for the Pre to appear as an iPod with Apple’s iTunes soft­ware. Before the first units shipped there was wild spec­u­la­tion regard­ing this fea­ture. Was Palm work­ing with Apple to enable this? If not, how would Apple respond?

As it turns out, Apple wasn’t work­ing with Palm on the Media Sync fea­ture. What was hap­pen­ing was that Palm was uti­liz­ing a

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Stormy

July 21st, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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I always laugh when some five or ten year trans­plant to Arizona starts run­ning his or her mouth about how much worse the weather is “back home” and how they are all gods among men for their abil­i­ties to nav­i­gate in snow, sleet and hail.

I laugh because I know that they will undoubt­edly be one of the first to get star­tled like a rab­bit and run their car into an embank­ment at the first sign of that rare mir­a­cle that we natives like to call, “rain.”

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One Small Step…

July 20th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

In honor of how far we came, and in light of how far we have yet to go. Here is a record­ing of Billy Bragg’s “The Space Race is Over.”

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Lyrics

July 20th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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You know, no one writes decent songs about punch­ing peo­ple in the head any more.

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A Typical Day at the Office

July 19th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

At least the office in my mind.

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Angry Mac Bastards Swag

July 17th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

Behold! The glory that is the Angry Mac Bastards thong!

Nah, just josh­ing you, but I am enjoy­ing a frosty pint of ale from the won­der­ful Angry Mac Bastards beer stein. You know you fuck­ing want one. Kudos to Melissa Findley (@Mercuralis on Twitter) for the design. It truly rocks. AMB Swag 1 AMB Swag 2

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More Feed Fuckery

July 16th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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While dick­ing around with the feeds ear­lier, I decided that I haven’t made enough point­less and annoy­ing changes lately. So, we’re mov­ing to Feedburner. The new feed links are below. Update your feed reader, or don’t, I don’t care.

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Feed Issues

July 16th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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It’s been brought to my atten­tion that some peo­ple aren’t get­ting any con­tent in the RSS/ATOM feeds. Oddly, this only seems to affect cer­tain feed read­ers. So far I can ver­ify that Google Reader, Newsgator Online and Feed Demon exhibit the prob­lem. Fever and Safari’s built in RSS reader are work­ing fine. At this point I’m stumped. If any­one has any sug­ges­tions, let me know in the comments.

update: it seems the time – hon­ored trou­bleshoot­ing tech­nique of pok­ing at crap until some­thing changes may have borne fruit. I’m now get­ting the proper dis­play of con­tent in every feed reader I have access to. If you’re still see­ing just head­lines on all the posts shoot me an email, or not, I don’t actu­ally care.

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