While it has been simmering below the surface since Apple introduced the “virtual” keyboard on the iPhone, the debate over having a physical vs virtual keyboard is getting almost as intense as the Mac vs. PC wars. The new Palm Pre only adds to the discussion.
Two blogs that I read quite often, John Gruber of [...]
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Breaking Keys
And some time later…
I’ll give Richard Sprague from Microsoft credit for guts on this one. He predicted in this post and a later one that Apple wouldn’t come close to making their iPhone goal when Apple launched the device. He invited users to come back later and check in. Evidently he has a few followers since a lot [...]
Got to be the worst
In addition to being a developer full time, I also manage a remote office for the company I work for. It’s been open two years now and other than a few start-up issues, running the office has been a minor part of my day. Until Monday…
Over that weekend, 08/17/2008, the building that houses our office [...]
.. and then again
I’ve been extremely happy with the result of my anti-spam practice, but it would seem that I’m not the only one experiencing low spam totals at the moment. Perhaps the conflict between Georiga and Russia is turning the “bot-nets” to other uses..
What’d Ya Expect?
As a computer user for more than 25 years I’ve come to expect that software and hardware have bugs. It’s just a fact. Nothing is perfect and imperfection is why there are updates and upgrades – it’s what makes the computer business go round and round.
I’m an Apple fan, but I don’t think they do [...]
Making a Dent
In the process of moving servers I’ve had to get used to the provider imposed Postini message filtering system. Initially I wasn’t really happy about the imposition it seemed to place on the way I like to use email, i.e. lots of “catch all” addresses.
After puttering around with the system for a little over a [...]
Moving Time
After being with eapps hosting on a Fedora Core 1 box for way too long I finally got the itch to move to a Cent OS 5 box. After contacting their billing department and finding out the particulars I had a new VPS system to migrate to. During my off time from work I managed [...]
Launchd and the Keychain
I’ve been writing some software for the Mac to run under launchd. My program is a background utility that needs access to the user’s keychain to do part of its work. The program ran fine during the development process when started from the shell, but as soon as I hooked it up to launchd, it [...]
Thought it was just me…
Since this morning (perhaps late yesterday) I’ve been getting a lot of email spam with the headline of “CNN.com Daily Top 10″. My email processor is Google and they are blocking me from seeing the actual messages because the email contains a virus. I’ve probably received 300-500 over the last 24 hours.
Initially I though that [...]
Old Computer Games
And I do mean old.. stuff from the 70’s that was on ASCII terminals. I loved the Colossal Cave Adventure and Trek. Probably my first exposure to computer games and probably what hooked me on computers. I played those during high school while working as a computer operator doing tape backups on an Harris computer.
Today [...]