@import: Archive

“Early on when an AT&T representative suggested to one of Jobs’ deputies that...”

– Wired on the iPhone network meltdown - Wired’s August edition has a piece on Apple & AT&T, however it’s not yet online. ZDNet offers some tidbits. (via nikf)

Jul 19th

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Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! (by Craig Shimala)

Jun 30th

Reposting a two year old essay from my old blog for posterity purposes. - T Author’s note: I started this entry in December when I first had this realization and got about three fourths of the way through it before I got side tracked by life and other things. At the time it was very helpful in getting over some mental hurdles I had concerning my work and life in general. Three months...

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HBO: Video: Home Teaser for HBO’s Game of Thrones adaption. I’m very excited by this.

Jun 14th

Dr Who Oops

hawkstudios: After watching season 4 of Dr Who, I thought a simple fanart was in order.

Jun 7th

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Jun 4th

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May 18th

Animated River Tam Figurine Revealed

hawkstudios: After 4 months of secrecy, the animated River Tam figurine has been revealed. This is my first project with QMx. So I am very happy the way it turned out. Click on the photo to see more shots of the figurine.

May 18th

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May 10th

“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future,...”

– Steve Job’s Thoughts on Flash Wow. The gauntlet has been thrown.

Apr 29th

“They’re disappointed that the iPad is so… well… unsurprising....”

– The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness : Cheerful Very good essay on the Newton, the iPad, and how evolution can lead to revolution.

Apr 28th

Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard →

Vonnegut on how to analyze literature. Awesome.

Apr 27th

Apr 14th

“Sometimes when the steps a customer provides to reproduce a bug seem exactly the...”

– Red Sweater Blog – A Stroke Of Luck Very interesting look on systematically diagnosing subtle software bugs.

Apr 9th

iPhone Dev Links

A friend of mine on Twitter was asking about references for getting started in iPhone development. I realized I had a lot of references to share, but nothing well organized. This entry (which I’ll probably update as I find new things) will have a running list of things I’ve found useful when getting started into iPhone development. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X - iPhone...

Feb 17th

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Twitter code visualization Gorgeous and mesmerizing visualization of the Twitter code base.

Feb 11th

Meat stylus for the iPhone →

Mmmmm sausage.

Feb 11th

“Complexity is a symptom of confusion, not a cause”

– Jeff Hawkins (via @regeiger)

Feb 5th

inessential.com: Pretend you’re Apple →

Great way to think about Apple’s current run of products.

Jan 28th

“Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. There aren’t many companies...”

– Daring Fireball: The iPad Big Picture When I was watching the live blogs of the keynote, my first reaction to the A4 announcement is that this was the biggest thing announced yesterday. I expect by the end of the year every iPhone & iPod Apple sells will have their own silicon.

Jan 28th

“Like the iPhone, the iPad is really a vessel, a tool, a 1.5-pound sack of...”

– The Apple iPad: First Impressions - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com This last paragraph from David Pogue’s first impressions succinctly conveys my feelings about the iPad.

Jan 27th

Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone... →

Fascinating comparison of text input across various form factors and UI. (via Daring Fireball)

Jan 21st

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“Be productive, be fantastically clever when necessary, speak truth to power, hit...”

– @rands Motto for 2010

Jan 10th

“The reason there are few attempts to blow up airplanes is not because we have...”

– Squashed (via marco)

Jan 6th

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“It’s simple to think about the future optimistically because the future hasn’t...”

– Rands In Repose: Wanted

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“Love your scrollbar”

– There is no page fold.

Dec 17th

“I’ve took the classic painting The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas) and made this...”

– Román Cortés » CSS 3D Meninas Very cool effect. It goes without saying that you need to view this in a modern browser for it to work. IE below IE8 need not apply.

Dec 17th

“My use case for cloud computing: my computer explodes and my first thought is,...”

– Twitter / rands: My use case for cloud comp …

Dec 14th