Archive for August, 2008

A new Olympic hope…

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

A great idea to salvage the spirit of the Olympics…
Maybe they should pick the poorest country with a good history of Human rights and then all the rich nations chip in to build the infrastructure and give that nation a shot in the arm.
Not that something this benevolent has a chance with the snivelling IOC. […]

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Free software usability…

Monday, August 4th, 2008

After reading the Matthew Paul Thomas reprise on open source software usability, I went back and reread the old John Gruber essay Ronco spray-on usability. I still find myself in agreement with the jist of it, but I bet he wants a do-over on the close…
It’s easy to ridicule the estimated 2006-or-2007 ship date for […]

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Underneath this flabby exterior lies an enormous lack of character…