99 year old woman with a brand new ipad.
Her response is fascinating and exciting and exactly the promise of the ipad.
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99 year old with a new ipad….
22-Apr-10iPad Review…
03-Apr-10Just got my iPad. My review is 1 word: Stunning
Apple has once again redefined an entire category. It has nothing to do with slates or tablets or anything else. It is a new device, the market should develop fast and furious.
Spolsky on Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
25-Jan-08Joel Spolsky has another great piece on Five whys, a highly recommended read for all in technical operations and engineers in general. There is alot to learn from the Toyota example.
In the past my preferred model for technical operations has always been NASA mission control, but I will be looking closely at Toyota Production System [...]
Tog on iPhone redux…
02-Jul-07As expected Tog has come out with a small review of the iPhone user interface. See my earlier post about Tog & the iPhone.
Did Microsoft just patent sudo!??!??!!!
04-May-07It appears that the patent office has granted Microsoft a patent on sudo. For those that don’t know sudo is a piece of software that allows a user to execute a command with the rights and privileges of another user. It has been around for at least as long as I have been using computers [...]
David Isenberg has a great post into the cell-phone towers and bees controversy. A must read:
isen.blog: Mobile phones, bees and the future: “Mobile phones, bees and the future
I’m wicked skeptical about reports of negative effects of mobile phones (brain cancer, etc.) when the public and the press can’t seem to get worked up at all [...]
Postgres 8.2 goodness…
06-Dec-06Postgres Release 8.2 today! Yeah!
Go read about the goodness at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-2.html
Empires of Light….
21-Nov-06I am in the midst of reading a wonderful account of the early days of electricity, Empires of Light. The books covers the euphoria of the inventions, the easy early money, followed by the grueling work of actually turning it into a business that changed people's lives. A riveting story that should be required reading [...]
Oh no…..
21-Nov-06Looks like Microsoft is set to unleash unholy anti-piracy safeguards in their next version of Office.
Early PS3 reports….
20-Nov-06Looks like there is some trouble brewing in PS3 land, NY Times reports the game console is a big miss. This is EXTREMELY bad news for Sony, they have lost the battle in the music player space and are now poised to lose the battle in video games.