December 2010
9 posts
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Why I Quit Facebook →
A slightly ranty essay about why I quit Facebook about a week ago. I downloaded all my data, de-activated it and don’t have any plans of re-activating it any time soon.
(Written in Etherpad because my Mac had gone for repairs and I wanted to try it out.)
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For Want of Knowledge
Knowledge is this wonderful thing. It is infinite, in the practical sense of the word. There’s enough knowledge in this world if one seeks it. Knowledge isn’t right or wrong. It’s one of the few things that’s available in such copious amounts and yet isn’t bad for you regardless of how much you consume.
Everybody in this world wants to share their knowledge. People...
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Hey Dude, Where's Our Future? →
We also have an “us” vs “them” situation again, just this time it’s mostly based on religion. And whenever there is the promise of paradise, life down here seems to turn into hell. I’d rather have the cold war back, because in retrospect people who fight over ideology seem a lot less likely to blow the whole place to smithereens than the ones who fight over religion.
If there is only one...
“It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”
– Steve Jobs
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Jedi-mind-tricks →
AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed.
Let’s just say we’d like to avoid any Imperial entanglements.
Translation of Amazon’s press release about booting Wikileaks from AWS into Star Wars speak. Absolutely hilarious!
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Reeder For Mac Beta →
Reeder has this beautiful option of showing the unread count as a part of the icon itself rather than the now somewhat repetitive red badge. It put a smile on my face when I first saw it.
Just one of the many things to love about this beautiful feed reader that I now have on all the Apple devices that I own (except for my iPod Shuffle).
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Pixel Trollface →
My gift to the world: pixel trollface. At 16 pixels square, it’s ideal for favicons, badges, icons, and whatever else you need to mark with that smug grin.
—Neven Mrgan.
Love it.
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My New Analogy for Failed Implementations
I logged back into StackOverflow after about a year, and saw that they had added a chat system. However, to call it a “chat system” is grossly misrepresenting the power it holds. That is how online chat should be implemented. Having access to years of StackOverflow data, the chat seems like a natural extension to it all. It feels like it belongs. Probably the only thing I can compare...