Tradition

September 12th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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Celebrating my arrival in Dublin with a tra­di­tional meal of curry and Indian beer.

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Link: Misuse

September 9th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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Harry C. Marks com­ment­ing on two recent arti­cles dis­cussing how to use RSS:

Guess what? I’m a grown man who doesn’t need to be told what’s good for me, what’s bad for me or whether I’m “mis­us­ing” some­thing that never came with an owner’s man­ual in the first place. If Marco can’t be both­ered to catch up on 50 blog posts at a time, fine for him. If Jacqui Cheng would rather do with­out RSS alto­gether, great.

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, by The Angry Drunk
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Jackass.

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Feeling the Crunch

September 6th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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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.

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On the Infinite Shittiness of 9to5 Mac

August 30th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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I’m hardly the first per­son to weigh in on this, but I thought that I’d point out this delight­ful lit­tle story from Stephen Hackett at fork​bombr​.net. The long and short of it is that Stephen called out douchemon­ger extra­or­di­naire Seth Weintraub, along with his pathetic lit­tle ass-minion Mark Gurman over their hor­rif­i­cally taste­less cov­er­age of Steve Jobs’ health. Seth, in a move that is sure to make Mike Arrington proud, reg­is­tered fork­bombr.com and pro­ceeded to redi­rect it to a vari­ety of sites. As of the the writ­ing of this post it cur­rently points to a page dis­play­ing the mes­sage “do onto others”.


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Link: The Macalope Weekly: Comfort Food

August 27th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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In my last post I ref­ered to an arti­cle by the Macalope that was behind the Macworld Insider pay­wall. The Macalope’s (free) weekly col­umn is now up with that content.

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What the Literal Fuck (Steve Jobs Resignation Edition)

August 26th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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I was debat­ing join­ing my myth­i­cal com­pa­triot the Macalope and adding my own froth­ing rage over this vilely offen­sive pile of syphilitic jackal dung when I made the mis­take of mean­der­ing down into the com­ments. I was not sur­prised to find the usual col­lec­tion of “hur dur Apple is so evil” bull­shit, but what really caught my eye was a mag­nif­i­cent exam­ple of the art of utter what-the-fuckery by some jack­ass with the han­dle of “joblot”.


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Thanks Steve

August 25th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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It seems unlikely that any­one read­ing this would be unaware of the news, but Steve Jobs announced his res­ig­na­tion as Apple’s CEO yes­ter­day after­noon. The glar­ing idiocy is already spew­ing forth from the fuck­tards in the pun­dit class, but I’ll save my vit­riol for a later point. If noth­ing else I’m sure me and the two other jack­asses will rant about it on the next Angry Mac Bastards Old Timey Revival Hour.

For the time being, how­ever, I’d just like to thank Mr. Jobs for the amaz­ing work he has done at Apple. On behalf of every­one who just wants their com­put­ers and gad­gets to get the fuck out of their way and let them get shit done; we appre­ci­ate how Apple, under Jobs’ lead­er­ship, has made com­put­ing suck a lit­tle bit less.

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Pundit Product Life Cycle

August 19th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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Chad Olson wrote a nice lit­tle arti­cle today decon­struct­ing yet another stu­pid iPad 3 “news” report. One thing at Chad wrote jumped out at me because it’s some­thing that I’ve been mean­ing to rant about for some time. Chad asks:

How is it news that Apple is work­ing on a new iPad any­ways? Do peo­ple think that Apple just slaps the thing together the week­end before announc­ing it?


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Sweet Zoroaster, What’s With This Week?

August 19th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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Great googly-moogly this week has been one hell of a ride. What with Google announc­ing plans to buy Motorola Mobility, and now with HP announc­ing that they’re exit­ing the PC busi­ness and killing off their WebOS hard­ware. While I can’t say I’ll shed a tear for the PC hard­ware, I am a bit sad­dened by the appar­ent death of WebOS. For one thing, I hon­estly believe that there should be a decent com­peti­tor to iOS in the mar­ket. In my mind WebOS was the best suited to take that role. Secondly, I have always had a soft spot for the erst­while Palm OS. I was an early adopter of Palm hand­helds, and I used a Palm device until the day I bought my first iPhone.

I’m going to have to dig out my old Tungsten T3 and have a drink with it.

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