Link: On Today’s Amazon Announcement

September 28th, 2011

I was wor­ried that I was going to have to write some­thing about Amazon’s slew of announce­ments. Thank Satan for Harry Marks at Curious Rat. His thoughts largely echo mine. The key point:

com­put­ing

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Link: Apple Announces iPhone 5 Event for Oct. 4

September 27th, 2011

Jim Dalrymple at The Loop

Let the cav­al­cade of idiocy begin!

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A Simple Suggestion…

September 26th, 2011

…for peo­ple who intend to com­ment on posts they encounter via “linked lists” such as the ones at Daring Fireball, The Loop or even The Angry Drunk:

Try actu­ally fuck­ing read­ing the arti­cle that you’re about to com­ment on before spew­ing your opin­ions into the aether.

Thank you for your co-operation — The Management.

Link: Chad Olson Gets It.

September 26th, 2011

It’s always fun to read some­one who under­stands how Apple works evis­cer­at­ing some idiot who doesn’t.

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It’s the Content Providers, Silly.

September 20th, 2011

I hate to pick on Lex Friedman over at Macworld as he’s gen­er­ally a smart guy, but in his opin­ion piece on the recent Netflix changes he misses the point in a way that is all too common.


Continue read­ing It’s the Content Providers, Silly.


Bob Mansfield’s Draconian Hulk-Hands?

September 14th, 2011

Now that lazy tech writ­ers can no longer blame Steve Jobs for every Apple deci­sion that they dis­like they’re going to have to come up with some alter­na­tives. As a pub­lic ser­vice I’m going to start track­ing what the hacks come up with. So far I’ve seen:

  • Tim Cook — naturally.
  • “Cupertino” — Yes you tal­ent­less fucks, the entire city of Cupertino has con­spired to pre­vent you from dis­play­ing the cal­en­dars list in iCal.

Come on you twats, let’s get creative!

Tradition

September 12th, 2011

Curry and Beer

Celebrating my arrival in Dublin with a tra­di­tional meal of curry and Indian beer.

Link: Misuse

September 9th, 2011

Harry C. Marks com­ment­ing on two recent arti­cles dis­cussing how to use RSS:

A-fucking-men. I hate the com­pul­sion that some techies have to tell peo­ple how they should use free form tools like RSS, Twitter and email. And double-plus amen about David Allen and Getting Things Done.

I’ve reached the point where I imme­di­ately ignore any pro­duc­tiv­ity tool that men­tions GTD. It’s an almost sure guar­an­tee that the devel­oper and user base will be more obsessed over the purity of your task list than how the tool works.

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Link: Editorial Independence

September 6th, 2011

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Jackass.

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Feeling the Crunch

September 6th, 2011

Change is afoot at The Worlds Largest Technology Tabloid, and it’s mak­ing the natives rest­less. Now, full dis­clo­sure (a hilar­i­ous phrase when used in the con­text of TechCrunch), I despise TechCrunch. As much as I’m loath to see peo­ple put out of work, I would like noth­ing more than to see TechCrunch con­signed to the dust-bin of history.

Here’s the funny thing though. In each of these pathetic whine-fests about how big bad cor­po­rate media just doesn’t under­stand the spe­cial snowflake that is TechCrunch we’re implic­itly asked to accept one unrea­son­able argu­ment. We’re asked to accept that — even though Mike Arrington is a demon­stra­bly uneth­i­cal jack­ass — the site that he founded is inca­pable of uneth­i­cal behav­ior. I’m sorry kids, that shit won’t fly.