Hey social networking sites, can we just cede the video sharing to youtube, the audio sharing to myspace, the photo sharing to flickr and the rest to whatever. At least, can you all stop forbidding embedding of each others’ content? It is such a pain in the ass to have to upload each video or [...]
As usual Maureen Dowd sums it up quite nicely. Soft Shoe in Hard Times – New York Times “You know, I guess the best way to describe government policy is like a person trying to drive a car in a rough patch,” he said. “If you ever get stuck in a situation like that, you [...]
You have to be amazed by the skills and bravura of the great Jackie Chan. I always think of him more in the tradition of Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton than Bruce Lee, I think this compilation of clips shows that. [thanks to MilkAndCookies.com]
Just got my first auto-reboot-update. I knew this was possible. A friend of mine worked on the team that decided to implement this at MSFT. However, this is the first time that MS decided that it knew what was right for me and rebooted my machine automatically. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN AUTOMATION RUN, [...]
Apple has a problem. How do they attract and keep developers on their platform? They created an Apple-only API that requires a variant of C long thought dead. Developers aren’t so keen on having to learn a new programming language that doesn’t give them any advantage over their existing ones and ties them to a [...]
Question: What is the Garfield comic like without Garfield? Answer: A surrealist masterpiece! garfield minus garfield (thanks Nate!)
