October 2007
26 posts
The Ride Home
Glad to know I am not the only one.
100 Things About Me « The Ride Home 36. I hate talking on the phone for more than a minute or two with anyone, except for a few people. I just don’t like it; it freaks me out to feel like if I call someone I might get trapped in a conversation I can’t get out of and not be able to get off the phone. Ian, my sister and my friend Melissa are pretty much...
Gmail IMAP
I am not sure when this feature was turned on but it appears that Google has added IMAP service to Gmail. I logged into my main Gmail account to change the POP setting and noticed that the screen was different. I suspect that this is a stealth upgrade. Google normally has some king of “New features” thing in the upper right hand corner of the page. They do this for Google Docs and...
Macs and nerds and switchers
“Windows lost a huge chunk of the nerd market. Nerd switchers, in and of themselves, don’t constitute a significant enough number of people to account for anything other than a tiny blip in Apple’s Mac sales. But nerds are the people who recommend computers to friends and families; it seems inarguable that there are an awful lot of nerds recommending Macs today who weren’t five years ago.”
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My creation
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My creation, originally uploaded by Khürt.
(via Island in the Net)
“openness” not a gauge of “goodness”
Kontra makes the argument that despite selling a closed system Apple is able to outdo incumbents in the smart-phone market. My favourite sentence:
At the end of the day, the success of a product is contingent not upon its ‘openness’ but the degree to which it provides utility and delight to its customers. - ( via CounterNotions )
(via Island in the Net)
Dilbert’s Internet addiction
Dilbert’s Internet addiction, originally uploaded by Khürt.
Dilbert is channeling Khurt.
(via Island in the Net)
John Gruber’s on the iPhone SDK
….clearly there is some merit to Jobs’s stated security concerns. As it stands in the current iPhone OS, all processes run as the root user; in broad layman’s terms, any process has access to everything else on the phone. So when a buffer overflow can be exploited to allow remote code execution, that code can do anything…..
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Are we Solving the Wrong Problems?
When I first learned C programming the idea that I had to manage my applications use of memory gave me an intense dislike of the language. To this day I refuse to write anything in C. Of course I use other “C syntax” languages such as Perl and PHP which in the end are written in that language so I am just a guilty as any C programmer to contributing to the spread of software riddled with...
