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Category Archives: Technology
On analysts and reality
Saturday: “Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, on Saturday said he believes Apple sold between 600-700 thousand iPads on the first day.” Monday: “Apple announced this morning that they had sold over 300,000 iPads on the first day.”
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Observations from a Comcast outage.
I use a Comcast cable modem at home… I’ve been satisfied with the service; it’s fast enough for my needs and is generally dependable (brief glitches happen once in a while, which quickly fix themselves). However, for the past two … Continue reading
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Image manipulations
Fred and Borris both recently blogged about intelligent image resizing. This previously came up about a year ago, probably when this research video started making the rounds: It’s cool stuff, although I’m a little doubtful about it working well for … Continue reading
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Stupid MobileMe
A month or two ago this stupid little icon showed up on my menu bar. I found it kind of amusing (in a sad kind of way) because it appeared out of the blue, without my having approved anything, and … Continue reading
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Today in Bacon…
From the Washington Post: The “small world theory,” embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication. With records … Continue reading
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Rocket science, indeed
NASA’s Mars Phoenix spacecraft has landed, without disaster, and the first pics are in. Huzzah! But what I found most stunning was this picture: That’s a shot of Phoenix dangling under it’s parachute (mid-air, during landing), taken by another spacecraft … Continue reading
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Launching and landing
Today we launched the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3 (yay!). 7 days from now, NASA will be landing a spacecraft on Mars. I thought it might be interesting to compare the two… The browser The spacecraft Original name: Phoenix … Continue reading
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Dear Sprint…
Dear Sprint… I hear you’ve had a rough time of it lately. Losing 1.1 million customers and $505 million last quarter? Ouch. I’d really love to help you out. Drop me a line when you have a billing system that … Continue reading
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This is why cell phone companies irritate me
I finally got around to upgrading to new cell phone and plan. Sprint, Samsung M520, SERO plan — nothing fancy. The phone isn’t even quite as awful as I had been expecting. But, as suspected, adding on a Phone-As-Modem (PAM) … Continue reading
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Apples and Orangeness
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” came out today (*checks clock* err, yesterday) — congrads to the Ubuntu community on the release! I just finished installing it under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, and will upgrade my home and work Ubuntu desktops … Continue reading
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