Fraser Speirs on the iPad And “Future Shock”

January 31st, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

I’m going to jump in on the band­wagon and heap praise on Fraser Speirs’ bril­liant analy­sis of the iPad and the tech world’s reac­tion to it. I pretty much am in com­plete agree­ment, and I wish I had writ­ten this.

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  • Bjørn

    (the link is not work­ing cor­rectly) whis­pers

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Does now…don’t know why MarsEdit borked it.

  • http://twitter.com/haggersnash Jim

    I also found Steven Frank’s “Old World vs. New World Computing” arti­cle insight­ful.

    Of course the “Old World” wasn’t a con­tin­uum and con­tained sev­eral “shocks” of equal mag­ni­tude, as you know. Some of the peo­ple rais­ing a stink about what the iPad rep­re­sents are either too young to remem­ber this, have the reten­tion of a gold­fish, are paid con­trar­i­ans or just short-sighted wankers.

    We have seen this before, kiddie-winks. We will see it again. Until then SHUT THE FUCK UP!

  • http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/ Daniel Jalkut

    What was wrong with the link? I would be curi­ous to know if there’s a bug in MarsEdit that I can fix. If you have any ideas, please let me know!

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Honestly I’m not sure that the bug was in MarsEdit. The link looked fine there, but appar­ently, after pub­lish­ing to WordPress it ended up look­ing some­thing like this:

    http://www.theangrydrunk.comhttp://speirs.org/b…

    i.e. my url was prepended to the intended one. Opening the post in the WordPress edi­tor showed the proper link, and sav­ing the post fixed every­thing. I’ll keep an eye out for sim­i­lar occurrences.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    And appar­ently Disqus is aut­o­for­mat­ing links. Anyway, you get the idea.

  • http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/ Daniel Jalkut

    Weird stuff! Sounds like it’s prob­a­bly a WordPress issue, or per­haps a par­tic­u­lar WordPress plu­gin. The fact that the link was right when you checked means it must have got­ten the right value from MarsEdit.

    Thanks for the extra info!

    Daniel