January 2012
12 posts
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 →
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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.