Tag Archives: web browser

Man of the times

Posted on 16 July 2008 by meta

“And I regret some of the recent behavior Russia that has exhibited, and I’ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia after they agreed with us on a missile defense system, etcetera.” … Continue reading →

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Credit cards, medical records, and solving the wrong problem

Posted on 21 February 2008 by meta

One of the problems of working in tech is it can get annoying when you see lots of money being spent solving the wrong problems, or implementing completely ineffective solutions. Take credit cards and RFID, for example. There’s a big … Continue reading →

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KDE 4 UI critique

Posted on 18 January 2008 by meta

Human beings have different kinds of memory; they remember things in different ways. Three common classes of memory are spatial memory, visual memory and verbal memory. (There’s also chronological memory, but that’s not relevant to my point here.) I have … Continue reading →

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BlackBerry Curve review

Posted on 1 January 2008 by meta

In mid November, our contract with AT&T (formerly Cingular) expired. We switched to T-Mobile and got BlackBerry Curve phones. I was a BlackBerry skeptic for a long time. I didn’t think I wanted a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. … Continue reading →

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Feed readers that work with LJ protected posts

Posted on 7 December 2007 by meta

I’ve been testing to see which feed readers support authentication sufficiently to enable you to log in to LJ somehow and hence see LiveJournal protected posts in your web feed reader. Do work, by prior login: Sage. Akregator. Opera*. Safari*. … Continue reading →

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iPhone

Posted on 11 June 2007 by meta

I’m an iPhone skeptic. While I appreciate good UI design considerably more than the average person, a good UI alone is not enough to make me accept a crippled and overpriced product. At WWDC today, Steve Jobs has announced that … Continue reading →

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Whatever it takes

Posted on 9 June 2007 by meta

Friday was definitely the worst Friday ever. I wandered in to the office with my coffee, and discovered that my main work laptop—an IBM ThinkPad, obviously—had mysteriously powered itself off overnight, instead of merely going to sleep. I booted it, … Continue reading →

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EBD defined

Posted on 9 February 2007 by meta

I find to my surprise that I’ve not posted here before about EBD. So, here goes… Over the years I’ve noticed that people who are exposed to Emacs for an extended period of time become unable to use other software. … Continue reading →

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Design simplicity

Posted on 17 December 2006 by meta

There’s an article by Donald Norman that has been stirring up controversy online. Whereas last time I thought he was wrong, this time I think he’s right—mostly. In general, he’s correct that people don’t buy the simple, well-designed stuff. Instead, … Continue reading →

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GPL v3: The Missing Piece

Posted on 27 September 2006 by meta

There has been a lot of GPLv3 discussion on tech sites. Perhaps predictably, a lot of it has missed the point or miscategorized the changes. If you read the history of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Public License, … Continue reading →

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