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Posts going back to 2003: technology, leadership, travel and food.
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Dave Winer’s open community?
I’ve tried posting some comments on Scripting News lately but each has been moderated away by Dave. Here’s the last one, a request for him to point out to me…
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iTunes Match is great
I enabled iTunes Match last night on our account and our home Mac dutifully uploaded 14,000+ songs overnight. It was still working on some of the songs and the album…
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Don’t pile on Stallman
So Richard Stallman (RMS, father of the free software movement) publishes some guidelines about booking him as a speaker. The “rider” is excessive in it’s detail and that is pushing…
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Frontier Lives (again!)
So I have a long history with UserLand Frontier, a scripting and database environment that runs on the Mac and Windows. I spent some time in 2004 as a product…
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Stripes = movie quote gold
Harold Ramis (Recruit): “What happens if I don’t get on the bus?” Sean Young (MP): “Aww, you look like a sensitive, intelligent guy. Don’t make me have to shoot you.”…
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Call of Duty: MW3 — totally psyched!
So I’m super excited about MW3. 10 short days away and from what I’ve read, there’s plenty in it for me as a normal player like me. I’ll be picking…
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Scripting News: The RSS community wakes up
Dave Winer: “I don’t ever want to be in a position where to participate in a community you have to support an undocumented API that’s implemented by a single vendor.…
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Daring Fireball Linked List: The Apple-Fication of Everything
John Gruber: “Apple’s priorities — simplicity, beauty, excellence — are becoming the industry’s priorities. You don’t have to be a former Apple employee to get on board this train, though.”…
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Fun with Siri
Tammy is having some fun with Siri, the built-in assistant in the iPhone 4s. Today’s discovery was that she could ask it to ‘call my husband’ and Siri asked her…
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Steve Jobs talks about iCloud in 1997
From the WWDC closing session, 1997. Watch it all to fully appreciate the passion, but around 16:30 in the video, you’ll hear Steve talk about the future of data access,…
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