Another painfully insightful piece by John Gruber.
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My brother and I had been suffering from a chronic affliction for roughly the last decade. You see, every year or so, we'd have to reinstall Windows on the PCs in our father's office. The reasons for the re-installation ranged from viruses, to a hosed registry, and even hard drive failures; the poor man's PCs have seen it all.
In a Palm press release dated 8 January 2009, the company's president and CEO, Ed Colligan, said:
I've been eagerly following news about Palm's upcoming Pre smartphone. Even though I am not presently planning to pick one up for myself (for starters, there's no way in hell I'm signing up for Sprint service), I'm quite excited about this new contender in the smartphone market.
In contrast with the spirit of yesterday's link to Designing Convertbots application comes news of the confirmed continuation of effort to bring Microsoft Office to the iPhone.
The developers of the iPhone app Convertbot offer a glimpse into their design process.
Wu Wei is a Taoist concept that means "act without doing," or "action without effort." It is an ideal towards which the Taoist aims in life.
There has recently been quite a bit of controversy over Macheist, arguing that it's unfair to the participating developers, largely due to the "steep discount" at which these (largely great) apps are being sold. Some other arguments are simply in the sensationalist vein.
Arguably the best linguistic "style guide" ever written for contemporary English. Doubly-relevant to Uncarved, since it both informs the way I aim to write, and serves as a canon for how sentences and paragraphs can most optimally be constructed.
It didn't take very long, but I finally grew annoyed with Blogger. The Blogger bar permanently affixed to the top of the blog was the straw that broke the camel's back; though its presence seems perfectly reasonable, I just couldn't bear looking at it.