As a number of perturbed status updates I'd posted to my Facebook profile in the wee hours of Friday morning suggested to my friends this AM, the health of my Mac Mini, Cylon.local, took a bit of a nose dive last night. Now, it's probably just a hard drive failure, which is actually not so bad [^1], but I won't know for sure until I take the little fella down to Tekserve's "ER" this weekend and get it properly diagnosed.
Tag: #wtf
Sometimes events arrive with a timing that is both serendipitous and uncanny. Only days after my last post, wherein I state a case for the growing importance of referencing the datasets and algorithms used in the distillation of research conclusions, comes a story about leaked correspondence records (email messages) amongst climate researchers working in affiliation with the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, or CRU.
The Iranian government has blocked access to Facebook. This in the run up to its June 12 presidential elections.
At least, that's what Richard Wray and Bobbie Johnson of the Guardian conclude:
TechCrunch is reporting that Palm is already creating a second WebOS device, code named Pixie, that will be a "low end" version of its upcoming (and as-yet unreleased) Pre.
A bunch of Silicon Valley execs are in Iraq, apparently "explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new media industry.
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.
So Courtney Gaines, of the Telegraph's "Gadget Inspectors" gadget reviews series rates the HTC G1 (the first Google phone) with a a 10/10 rating, citing capabilities that are theoretically possible in upcoming Android-based phones... what?!