Entries from January 2007

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Ballmer admits that they are screwing the Plays For Sure partners and customers

Mary Jo Foley sussed it out from a talk he gave at Wharton. In the talk he’s asked about screwing over partners, and he basically says, “fuck ‘em.” yeah, great idea Steve. What about fucking over your customers who bought music with Plays For Sure DRM or bought devices with it? Yeah, that is gonna [...]

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

RIP Alice Coltrane

Avant-Jazz pianist Alice Coltrane died on Friday. sucky.

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Worst… commercial… ever…

This is that stupid Visa commercial where everyone is moving smoothly, like the little cogs in the capatalist machine that they are, getting their food pellets and paying using their track-your-purchases-sell-your-data-while-opening-you-to -identity-theft-and-making-your-our-debt-slave-Visa card. Then some free thinker uses cash to pay and it gums up the whole thing. Anarchy is introduced until he moves along… [...]

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

One of the weirdest things about getting older

is that I’m finding myself sympathising more with the parents in the teen movies. When Larry Miller say “You’re 18, you don’t know what you want. And you won’t know what you want ’til you’re 45, and even if you get it, you’ll be too old to use it.” in 10 things I hate about [...]

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

iPhone Unboxed

iPhone Unboxed this is funny. I can’t believe that he was able to make it look this good this quickly.

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote – Engadget

Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote – Engadget Engadget always has my favorite Apple keynote coverage. So, Apple TV has a hard drive. Ok, cool. $299, decent So the iPhone is official! widescreen, touchscreen, 4 or 8GB of RAM, runs OS X, lives on Cingular. Do I want one? Absolutely. At $499 will I [...]

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Oh, so much to love about January

CES, Mac Expo and NAMM. A tech and gear geek’s favorite month of the year! Guess what? I’m not going to any of them (got some big deadlines coming up), but I am following all the action, ya know, remotely. So here’s what I’ve found so far: MacWorld: The expectations game – MacWorld talks about [...]

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

God, Inc.: indie comedy TV on the internet

FrancisStokes.com this is pretty funny. Here is episode 1 for your enjoyment.

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Why I’m digging DreamHost

DreamHost Blog ยป New Dream Resolutions To have a business owner be this open and honest (in web 2.0 language transparent), is so insanely refreshing. I wish that I was allowed to be that open on my adobe blog.

Friday, January 5th, 2007

you have no privacy: part 1,000,000

The Seattle Times: Bush says feds can open mail without warrant Despite George Bush’s desire to be compared favorably to Harry Truman, he is acting a lot more like Joseph Stalin. related: Caught with his hand in the civil rights cookie jar AGAIN King Bush Ben Franklin kicking it on the current spying debate tip [...]