Fraser Speirs on the iPad and "Future Shock"

View CommentsFraser Speirs on the iPad and “Future Shock”

• Bjørn

  January 31, 2010 at 1:28 pm

  (the link is not working correctly) *whispers*

• The Angry Drunk

  January 31, 2010 at 2:46 pm

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

• Jim

  January 31, 2010 at 2:56 pm

  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!

• Daniel Jalkut

  January 31, 2010 at 5:35 pm

  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!

• The Angry Drunk

  January 31, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  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.

• The Angry Drunk

  January 31, 2010 at 7:45 pm

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

• Daniel Jalkut

  January 31, 2010 at 9:58 pm

  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