As I watch in disbelief from a distance as the facade crumbles I keep on having the same thought whenever I read things like this…
Overlooked in the McCellan coverage (Scripting News)
Maybe the BBC isn’t that bad. At least they (used) take their role in society seriously.
So I think Sarkozy has to be careful what he wishes for.
“Jeff Bezos talked about Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book; Activision’s Bobby Kotick showed off a videogame; Sony’s Howard Stringer unveiled a television. Barry Diller charmed everyone with his brilliance long enough that they forgot he really hasn’t accomplished what he set out to on the Net. Michael Dell, Jerry Yang, and Jeff Bewkes simply seemed clueless to the realities of their business predicaments. Mark Zuckerberg proved terminally incapable of sharing. Only the last speaker of Wednesday night, Rupert Murdoch, showed any real spark.”
D6 Live Coverage: Why Rupert Murdoch should defrag Bill Gates — and the rest of tech
The corridoor conversations must be good at this conference; otherwise why would you go?
“Her indoors” bought a Nokia 6086 over the weekend and we made an almost fatale mistake at the shop. We didn’t check for iSync support on the Mac. And guess what, it’s not supported…argh!
However, I found this, crossed my fingers and tried it.
HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource – Nokia 6086 on Mac / iSync – Fixed
It works perfectly. Wonderful!
“If Gates & Co. had ended up snagging Booch, however, I wonder whether Microsoft’s priorities might be considerably different than they are with Ozzie in the CSA role. Might Microsoft be more business-focused than consumer-focused?”
What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
What this actually shows is that Microsoft needs more than one Chief Architect; how can one person control everything from the Xbox to Live via the Zune?
I’ve reserved! Your should too…
I was reading about the joys of finding a socket that fits your plug…
Musing about design and convenience
…when I remembered how stupid we all are. We carry around international plug convertors; why don’t we simply change the sockets. Or even, make the sockets international?
Seen in Bangalore, India.
(In French)
L’appel de SVM contre la future loi Hadopi | SVM
…seriously; would an article about your home city with this in it?
“Once again – great cities need more vision than hubris; great public transport that it is affordable and reliable and easy to use instead of tunnels that noone drives through; an airport train service with carriages built for travellers with luggage that whisks you into the city center; bars that are licenced to serve coffee and alcohol without needing to buy food; boulevards that are clean and greened and attractive instead of tacky and smelly and dangerous, especially at night; cheap, plentiful, fast broadband; a city centre built for people on foot, not for private cars; public markets with locally grown produce that spring up daily or weekly in the middle of a city and which get public support, rather than wholesale produce markets that are scattered around the edges or huge supermarket chains that homogenize the food experience. One or two truly great, world-class hotels that reset the bar for global travellers and make them want to come just to stay there. Ideally too a world class newspaper that takes seriously the issues of the city, and the world. Instead of one that, in particular online, is increasingly tabloid and banal. Good weather, which I also hear of late has gone down the plug hole.”
Time to leave!
This is so simple and yet so fantastic…
Could we do this analysis in real time?
