Category: Opinion
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On the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
I deleted my Twitter account yesterday given the garbage new owner and his unrelenting awfulness. I’m not interested in being involved with any of that crap. Then I wanted to say something today about the World Cup and would have normally done that on Twitter. Oh well, I do have this blog and I can…
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Pedometer++ and developer trust
Shortly after the introduction of the iPhone 5s with the M7 motion processor, David Smith released an extremely basic pedometer application that read and displayed this data. It was a free app that I considered almost more of a hobby project or proof of concept than a product. Over time the app added features, including…
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Markup languages for writing
When I started writing for the web several years ago, content management systems didn’t commonly include WYSIWYG editors. Typically I wrote posts in standard HTML, and the editors at best had automatic insertion of paragraph tags and javascript buttons to insert text styling cues such as bold and italics. I was never a fan of…
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Microsoft’s Strange Tablet Launch
I don’t normally write this sort of thing, as I prefer to keep this site focused on my everyday life, but I watched the Microsoft Surface keynote video this morning and have been thinking about what I did and didn’t see. And although I am a long-time Mac user, iPhone user, and iPad owner, I…
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I’m Not a Thief
But I feel like one. I stopped by the Apple Store this afternoon because I had decided to buy a smart cover for my new iPad. I looked around and spent a while trying to figure out whether I preferred the leather or the polyurethane cover, and eventually settled on the leather cover in navy…
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Phones Announced at Mobile World Congress 2012
This list is hardly complete, and I won’t waste both your time and mine by actually linking to them. I don’t really care to know what the differences between any of these are. But you have to wonder if these manufacturers have learned anything at all from Apple’s success with the iPhone and a simplified…
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Ben on Gameface
The following is archived for posterity from an email Ben sent us today. nono you guys have this all wrong. =( is for unhappy/sad. =| is gameface. which over the years has developed several different meanings that depend on context. but it is typically used for backhanded insults, dry sarcasm, intentionally ambiguous statements, obvious understatements,…
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Being “That Guy”
Something struck me today as I was pulling on my riding gear after lunch. I really enjoy being that guy. Not that guy you hate (that’s a different guy, really!) but that guy you look at and wonder what the hell is wrong with him. The person who does things differently. The hard way. Who…
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Merlin on Complaining
I think there’s a lot of people who would say “you’re never allowed to complain about something unless you have a solution,” and I disagree. I think if you have a really good complaint about something it’s not always your job to have to fix it too. And furthermore, the people who do go out…
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On Writing
The Problem I used to write in word processors and use formatting, but I found that most of the time all I really want is words. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to make your meaning clear with only text and a few simple pieces of markup. We learned to do this many, many…