Over at SiliconBeat, the San Jose Mercury News tech business weblog, Matt Marshall writes:
Apple’s technology makes it really difficult to play music on its iPod if it comes from sources other than its iTunes online store.
This is lazy and bad reporting. I have thousands of tracks in my iTunes library, of which perhaps [...]
Yesterday I moved my iTunes library to my MacBook Pro to my desktop PC. Moving the audio files is really easy, but I didn’t want to lose my ratings, play counts, and playlists, and I had been conditioned to think that this was going to be really difficult. I had run into problems moving [...]
Declan McCullagh reports that network hardware makers are opposed to Net neutrality legislation, but fails to explain why. Telcos are going to need to buy a lot of network hardware in order to implement their plans for segmented services — the current hardware isn’t going to cut it. Greed, as usual, is the answer.
One question I constantly puzzle over and have not come up with a good answer for is the extent to which a person should pay attention to macroeconomics. To a certain degree, macroeconomic trends are important input into the decisions we make in our day to day lives. Should you take a risky [...]
I gave my presentations earlier this week. The first presentation I gave did not go particularly well. I had written out the entire presentation by hand and practiced it many times, but then I actually brought the printout to the presentation and became a little bit too fixated on giving the presentation as [...]
I’m pretty sure that I exhibit one of the failings common to experienced developers trying to learn a new thing. That failing is an unwillingness to just hack out code.
I’ve been working with Ruby on Rails for a few months, but not as much as I’d like, mainly because I have many duties beyond just [...]
The other day I was reading a web page about Jane Jacobs’ theories of cities. There was something on it that made me think about immigration:
Thinking in terms of national economies smears over the economic facts. Once we take off these lenses, we can see that the world consists not of developed and [...]
Tom Coates has posted about how he wants to stop wanting to play World of Warcraft. The game is fun, but it’s a huge time sink. The time I spend playing could be spent reading books I’m interested in, or watching movies, or working on any number of projects I have on the back burner. [...]
I’ve been carrying a Tide To Go instant stain remover in my bag for months, and I finally got a chance to break it in today after a run-in with a drippy hamburger. Tide To Go works. Buy yourself a Tide To Go. On a related note, Red Robin is mediocre at best.
I already linked to this article over at Of Interest, but I think it deserves wider exposure. The Boston Globe has a lengthy report on President Bush’s use of so-called