Good morning Portland, here’s your rainbow.
I found this on my balcony this morning. This is probably a good day to write poems.
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Mr. Stephen Fry blogs about smart-phones
In this piece “Four and Half Years On” Stephen Fry combines a brief history of the smart-phone universe (following the big iBang of 2007) with a generous review of the ridiculously large Samsung Galaxy Note. Oh, there’s also a rather neat reference to a poem by Milton, so do remember to laugh.
iPad like an iPad
I ran across this piece at the Loop. It’s a good piece, and I completely agree. He’s (probably deliberately) overlooking a key fact about the people who argue about whether an iPad can replace a PC. The people in the tech press having this debate are not consumers, the’re paid partisans. Their job is to [...]
WTF QR CODES
WTF QR CODES was posted on Daring Fireball so the entire internet is already bored of it. But I love it. It it speaks to me. Advertising and marketing with QR codes is absolutely idiotic. QR codes slapped on websites are the worst offenders. I’m already reading a website, on a computer, and you want me to [...]
Duck, Duck, Google
I’ve recently switched to using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine. DuckDuckGo has some nice features including a spiffy “bang” syntax that lets you quickly proxy search results over to other sites and services. For example, if I wanted to quickly look up a PHP function I can search for “array unshift !php” and DuckDuckGo [...]
Snug
My work ordered a keyboard for me. It arrived in a box. Nice.
My college-aged self would have killed for this.
But now? An interesting curiosity. Wacom Inkling smart pen does drawing the old-fashioned way — sort of (video) — Engadget.
Purging and consolidating
I finished a little project this weekend. I had a rickety file drawer next to my desk. This file drawer came to live with me when I moved to Portland. It came disassembled in a flat box. Some assembly was required. It looked handsome enough on the web site. “Sturdy steel construction”, it said. It [...]
Here’s how it starts
It started with a table. A ratty table whose laminate top was peeling apart. “Free – great for patio” was scrawled on a sign taped to the top of the table. Yes, place this table on your patio where the wind, rain, and sun can finish what was started. After this table, there was another [...]
Reuters for Kindle for iPad
Amazon recently made newspapers and magazines available for a wider array of Kindle apps, including the Kindle app for iPad (but curiously, not for iPhone). They have even included a very Apple-like promotional video which shows off the user interface. Currently there are about 170 periodicals available in this program. I imagine more will follow [...]
