Monthly Archives: January 2010

Microsoft is Ruining Smartphones and Tablets for Everyone

Microsoft should just get out of the smartphone business and the tablet game. It wasn’t invited in the first place. –John C. Dvorak, writing for PC Magazine, January 4, 2010 Dang, John. Okay. PC Magazine: Microsoft is Ruining Smartphones and … Continue reading

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Please make yourselves comfortable

I have a quick question for the web designers, front-end engineers and user experience nerds out there. Are your websites comfortable? Certainly, your sites look oustanding on desktop displays. You’ve all been hard at work getting your sites to conform … Continue reading

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The signature Kennedy wit

I found this today and I love it. Via Letters of Note

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J. D. Salinger, dead at 91

Sex is something I really don’t understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that … Continue reading

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My scorecard for today’s Apple iPad event

Well, how did I do? I think I did pretty well handicapping today’s Apple press event (video of the keynote available here). Let me quickly run through the iPad results vs. my iPad and event predictions. (I’ll use my own … Continue reading

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