February 2012
2 posts
Steve Jobs
Looks like John Gruber got around to finishing the Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs Biography. His conclusion is spot on:
It’s not just that Isaacson was wrong about something; it’s that he was wrong about the
most important thing in Jobs’s career. There’s a decades-long story arc about the
software system started at NeXT that Isaacson completely misses.
Sad that the one guy who gets to talk...
January 2012
12 posts
Kind of on an economics kick today
Been reading a lot of articles today on economics and/or the state of politics and the economy.
Many are quite long, but thanks to Instapaper and flipboard I’ve posted links to them thought the day. See if you can see the common thread running through these articles.
Why Apple's products are 'Designed in California'... →
Chris Rawson, tuaw.com
Look at the back of your iPhone, or your iPad, or on the bottom of your Mac. You’ll see the following words embossed somewhere: “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.” Many Americans, all the way up to the President…
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work →
Apple once bragged that its products were made in America. But it has since shifted its immense manufacturing work overseas, posing questions about what corporate America owes Americans.
Chefs, Butlers, Marble Baths: Hospitals Vie for... →
Private chefs prepared to cook anything, elegant surroundings and even butlers are among the amenities in lavish suites of some hospitals.
In a Romney Believer, Private Equity’s Risks and... →
The merits of private equity firms, like Marc J. Leder’s Sun Capital, have come into question again because of Mitt Romney’s time at the firm Bain Capital.
Speculators drive cotton price volatility, hurting... →
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The Left-Behinds - Michael Hirsh -... →
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Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem?... →
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One of these guys is wrong
One of my “must see” daily websites is macsurfer.com. Today I came across 2 headlines listed right on top of each other:
From bgr.com: web traffic patterns suggest iPad was a dud this holiday season
And…
From macdailynews.com: ad network numbers suggest apples iPad had a massive Christmas
Clearly, one of these is wrong. Both linked articles cite the same data from...
Poor Cousin: thought on 90WPM: Seeing It →
Really good post on the whole android vs. iOS debate, the flames of which have been fanned by the war between MG Siegler and Josh Topolsky. Recommend you go check it out, but I wanted to add a bit to this:
90wpm:
Topolsky is clearly pissed off. It’s easy to dismiss his post as yet another Android reviewer ranting about Apple-centric bloggers, but if you listen to the core of his argument,...
December 2011
9 posts
Young Adult
Browsing through goodreads.com and come across their year in review and discover that young adult (YA) titles where some of the most read books of the year.
I dont get it. Unless english teachers and librarians across the world are forcing kids to buy these books and sign up for goodreads.com why are actual adults so smitten with these types of books? Am I missing something about the...
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Polls say Romney will walk to GOP nomination →
A few days out from Iowa and although nobody has yet cast a ballot in the GOP primaries, the polls seem to be saying Mitt Romney will walk to the GOP nomination.
That would be amazing. Something always goes wrong, front runners always stumble. Romney probably wins the nomination anyway, but it won’t be a walk.
Anyway, probably doesn’t matter anyway. I still think President Obama wins...
Apple Rumors: iPad 3
Saw on various Apple news/rumor sites yesterday that there’s a new rumor that Apple is going to announce the iPad 3 in January - At iWorld (which I believe is the renamed Macworld). My take on this:
When. hell. freezes. over.
Apple famously decamped from Macworld and most every other tech conference it participated in many years back. I know Steve Jobs is gone, but there’s no way...
parislemon: Amazon's December Kindle Sales:... →
parislemon:
This is beyond ridiculous now. Amazon continues to feel the need to boast — and it seems understandably — about their Kindle sales. But they continue to refuse to give actual sales numbers to back up the boasting.
The latest press release says that “Throughout December, customers purchased well…
What I want to know is…how many Kindle Fires have been returned? ...
Domain Transfer Day
Like many people, I have used godaddy.com to manage my domain names (currently down to just 1 - danieljhamilton.com). I’ve never been too comfortable with them - their website is difficult to use and their ads are stupid but, they were cheap. Well, no more. Godaddy has what can only be described as a ambiguious position on SOPA (go here to learn what SOPA is and why it’s bad) and...
La Mer de Pianos on Vimeo →
by Films & Things, vimeo.com
Cool
The Lure of Everest →
Pretty sure this will be my Xmas present this year:
With their empire in tatters, postwar Britons were desperate for a source of renewal and needed grand projects to restore national pride. They looked eastward, and up.
November 2011
7 posts
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? →
Sane sensible must read
America desperately needs a responsible and compassionate alternative to the Obama administration’s path of bigger government at higher cost. And yet: This past summer, the GOP nearly forced America to the verge of default just to score a point in a budget debate. In the throes of the worst economic crisis since the Depression, Republican politicians demand massive...
October 2011
1 post
Drifting
Columbus day and the shock of not doing my normal Monday routine has left me drifting and unmotivated.
August 2011
10 posts
Duane Elgin: 8 Expressions of Simplicity for... →
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The Secret History of Guns - Magazine - The... →
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Macworld Forget fancy formatting: Why plain text... →
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A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 →
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The Untransformational President - Print View -... →
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Do as I do not as I say →
Pretty good counter argument to the recent moaning of progressives about President Obama.
Dear Cracker Jack Caramel Popcorn - The Oatmeal →
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Google are pussies | brian s hall →
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Why Apple Scares the Wintel Vendors | TechPinions →
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Planning & Executing the Mission to Get Bin Laden... →
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July 2011
7 posts
Short OS X Lion Review
Very cool. Need to get used to the reverse scrolling. Full screen rocks, as does versions. Advice: get it.
Jon Rubinstein Compares HP’s WebOS to Mac OS X |... →
So the takeaway is that HP is 10 years behind Apple
Yawn →
Facebook Introduces Group Chat, Video Calling
Daring Fireball Linked List: John Adams: 'It Is... →
Great quote find by Gruber. One of the biggest negatives that the “if it bleeds, it leads” media culture has fostered over the past few decades is that it has eroded the fundamental right to a presumption of innocence and the government must prove it’s case.
And before I get some yahoo saying the constitution does not explicity cite it go read coffin v. United States
Soldiers' Rations During the American Revoloution →
canisfamiliaris:
1 lb. beef, or 3/4 lb. pork, or 1 lb. salt fish, per day; 1 lb. bread or flour, per day; 3 pints of peas or beans per week, or vegetable equivalent; 1 half pint of rice, one pint of Indian meal, per man, per week; 1 quart of spruce beer or cider per man per day, or nine gallons of molasses, per company of 100 men per week; 3 lbs. of candles to 100 men per week, for guards; 24...
June 2011
3 posts
