The Angry Drunk

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.

I find it hard to brag about being right about some­thing Apple already con­firmed, but hey iCloud.com Beta is live. Web apps, gotta love ‘em.

Apparently the New York Times has some hor­ri­ble anti-Microsoft bias — and if there is some­one who knows about irra­tional biases it’s Paul Thurrott. I’d prop­erly decon­struct this lunacy, but I shat myself laugh­ing about it. Thanks Paul, you fuck­ing lunatic, you owe me a pair of pants.

So it seems that Gruber has updated his post to clar­ify his stance, includ­ing a link to Professor Bob Park of The University of Maryland and the What’s New blog.

I’m glad to see that John’s not blindly par­rot­ing the idiocy of the WHO report, but it’s still infu­ri­at­ing to see a bogus issue like this men­tioned on the same page as an actual pub­lic health issue like cig­a­rette smoking.

That said, here is an arti­cle from Glenn Fleishman (who knows more about wire­less net­work­ing than most of us put together) explain­ing the real­i­ties of this situation.