Six years ago I bought my first Apple product – a MBP, the last version before unibody designs. The unboxing alone was enough to make me a fan. Apple was to other devices as Aston Martin is to other cars – classy, polished, perfect. Sure, it’s not the most powerful car out there – Veyron [...]
A whole industry is actively conning us. But they get away with it, because we can’t get away from them. No, I’m not talking about Facebook or Google or Microsoft or Apple. That’s child’s play in comparison. Nope, not copyright and patent trolls either. I’m talking about the business model used by the razor blade, [...]
This talk by Bret Victor has changed my entire perspective on programming and how I want to continue working in this field. It starts out a bit slow, but you should watch it. Well worth it, I promise. Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo. A quick recap of the more salient points [...]
Ever since I was a wee lad I thought I might one day write an epic book that at least two people will read. I realize now it’s difficult to write a book when you’re coding all the time. The internet doesn’t help either. However something good did come out of this obsession with writing [...]
A man died today. I never knew him personally and yet I feel like writing a post about his death before even getting out of bed this morning. When I went to bed last night, he wasn’t dead yet, this morning, he was. Interesting how much can change in the world when you fall asleep [...]
Upon getting back from the US in late August I noticed that my laptop suddenly doesn’t want to connect to my home wireless network. At the time I didn’t really give it much thought because everything else from the iPad to the iPhone to all the other laptops at home connected just fine and since [...]
Today I learned that quickreading scientific text isn’t all that quick at all. I have a theoretical exam on information theory on Tuesday and to start off the studying I wanted to read Shannon’s original paper on the topic, all 55 pages of it. Seeming as how quickreading is a little bit like opening a [...]
Today I learned that updating my laptop to Mac OSX Lion caused a very strange issue with my home wireless network. Actually I learned the issue was tehre as soon as I got back home, but didn’t really have time to look into it … apparently it no longer supports WPA encryption and my router [...]
A few days ago Apple released a social network. Gee, how bloody creative of them and they used to be so cool. There are enough social networks, too many actually. But I digress. Yesterday when I updated iTunes and got the slightly odd new version (what’s with the vertical window buttons anyway?) there was no [...]
Lately we’ve been hearing a lot, and I mean a bloody metric shitload, of rumours, speculation and other fun things about the soon-to-be-announced Apple tablet. You know how those Apple fanboys get, the first time hype started building about this thing was several years ago, but lately it’s been getting soooo pervasive you just knew [...]
