October 24, 2009
Anything Else
October 21, 2009
Marco Arment, on upgrades Comments Off
Really, this is brilliant. Our industry has collectively taught average people over the last few decades that computers should be feared and are always a single misstep from breaking. We?ve trained them to expect the working state to be fragile and temporary, and experience from previous upgrades has convinced them that they shouldn?t mess with [...]
October 21, 2009
This gives me hope for humanity Comments Off
It also had me in tears last night. I was sniffling through the whole thing, but this is the shining moment: The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to [...]
October 11, 2009
Maybe trusting the cloud isn't that good an idea Comments Off
Valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers received a notice today from the company updating them on the “data disruption” problem. The good news is that data is no longer being disrupted. The bad news is that there is no data left to be disrupted. (link) That sound? Me running a backup. Right now.
September 10, 2009
I'm sure we've been through this before Comments Off
So there’s been quite a lot of wank lately about wordpress and it’s security and/or lack thereof. It goes a little bit like this: Random Blog Owner: My blog has been hacked. Noooo! Random Tech Person #1: Well, that’s what you get for using wordpress. Random WP evangelist: No no no… it’s RBO’s own fault. [...]