Congratulations You Loopy Fuckers

September 28th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

I rarely get a chance to write about media out­lets that don’t piss me off, but if you’ve lis­tened to the Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast much, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of the report­ing that Jim Dalrymple is doing over at The Loop. Consequently, I was happy to read the update regard­ing recent changes that Jim posted today. In par­tic­u­lar, it’s great to hear that fel­low AMB host Peter Cohen is join­ing up as Executive Editor. Congratulations to all involved, and thanks for run­ning an Apple news/opinion site that doesn’t make we want to stab a hobo.

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Schadenfreude,

September 25th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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I has it.

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Fuck Off Lifehacker

September 24th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

Adam Pash, Lifehacker edi­tor, I have a mes­sage for you.

You are an idiot.

I highly sug­gest that you give up on try­ing to report on tech­nol­ogy issues and go back to post­ing pretty pic­tures of people’s desks and fel­lat­ing David Allen. At least you’re good at that.

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TechCrunch Jizzes Over an Apple/Google Story, Again

September 22nd, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

Someone should call up Michael Arrington and his cadre of scro­tum – wash­ers over at TechCrunch and let them know that the “irra­tional Apple hatred” job is already taken by Rob Enderle, and Rob does a bet­ter job of it. Case in point, today’s post from so – called Apple expert M.G. Siegler under the head­line “Push Gmail Finally Comes To The iPhone, No Thanks To Apple.”

The back­ground to the story is that Google Sync, which is merely Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, now sup­ports Google Mail. Before today, Google Sync could only sync con­tacts and cal­en­dars. Before I go on, take some time and click through to the Google Sync page. Once there, take note of the options in the choose your phone drop – down. Note that, in addi­tion to the iPhone there are a few other options, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Mobile among them.

Now check out the TechCrap story. Brace your­self for the right­eous indig­na­tion being hurled at Research In Motion, Microsoft and Nokia due to their refusal to sup­port native Google push email. Wait, you say there is no such indig­na­tion? You say that the only com­pany the mon­key – feltch­ers at TechCrap bitch

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Logic Isn’t His Strong Suit

September 21st, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

The rea­sons for pub­lish­ing inac­cu­racy – laden tripe on the web are as var­ied as the lack – wits who write it. Some have a polit­i­cal agenda to push. Some are in it for the cash. Some just get a mas­sive erec­tion from piss­ing off ratio­nal peo­ple. But amongst these mis­cre­ants are the select few who have a need, a com­pul­sion if you will, to pack as much idiocy, faulty logic and inac­cu­racy into one arti­cle as they pos­si­bly can. Among these select few, the grand mas­ter is Daniel Eran Dilger and his Cavalcade of Sock – Puppets.

I nor­mally don’t seek out Dilger’s par­tic­u­lar brand of fuck­wit­tery, nor do I will­ingly read the drool­ing efflu­via from AppleInsider (one of his usual haunts), but the peo­ple have spo­ken, so I am now com­pelled to beat him up for the men­tal diar­rhea that he posted today at AppleInsider under the head­line “Why Apple is bet­ting on HTML 5: a web his­tory.”

My usual modus operandi with this sort of arti­cle is to first address the cen­tral the­sis of the piece, but, for the life of me I can’t fig­ure exactly what in the seven hells Daniel is hop­ing to accomplish

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Boring

September 21st, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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If any­one is still wait­ing for won­drous tales of my Irish adven­ture, I’m sorry to dis­abuse you of that notion. Three days of jet – lag, train­ing and meet­ings didn’t leave me much inspired to do any adventuring.

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Travel

September 16th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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So, for the ter­mi­nally obliv­i­ous, the rea­son for the lack of activ­ity is that I am cur­rently in grey and dis­mal Ireland doing the same job I would nor­mally be doing, but with a 150% cost of liv­ing mod­i­fier and no appre­cia­ble sleep. At any rate, the jet – lag is unlikely to dis­si­pâté any time soon. So, until my return, things gonna be quiet around here. Deal with it Susie.

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Bloody Brilliant

September 10th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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Simply bril­liant com­men­tary utterly shred­ding the “Apple is evil” meme. Even the fuck­ing com­ments are intelligent.

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Real Socialism

September 7th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

Yet again the Rude Pundit nails it.

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Wah, Wah, Wah Goes the Pundit.

September 2nd, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

I debated doing a proper tear – down of this piece of self – indul­gent tripe from the usu­ally a bit more astute than this Merlin Mann. It cer­tainly has all of the tropes that send me into parox­ysms of rage: Apple as cult, the impli­ca­tion that Snow Leopard is just a “ser­vice pack,” the inabil­ity to under­stand Apple’s mar­ket­ing of Snow Leopard, douchebaggy faux – con­ver­sa­tions between the author and an anthro­po­mor­phized Apple. Really, it’s a New Media Douchefestival of delights. But I just can’t bring myself to do it. Instead I’ll offer just a few thoughts.

I get it Merlin, you’re an idiot who rushed into an OS upgrade because, like every other dip – shit in the tech pun­di­toc­racy, you are obsessed with the new shiny and, like a fuck­ing rac­coon, you can’t resist grab­bing for it. I get that, again like the rest of the pun­di­toc­racy you aren’t capa­ble of lis­ten­ing when Apple said clearly that Snow Leopard was not going to be about new fea­tures (except for Exchange). I get that it’s eas­ier to blame Apple instead of your beloved devel­op­ers who couldn’t be arsed to upgrade their soft­ware in time for Snow Leopard,

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