- Why I am an amoral, family-hating monster…and Newt Gingrich isn’t – “So, just a suggestion: if you want a relationship that lasts, don’t rely on god, lawyers, and social pressure to force it to work. Love and reciprocal trust are the only chains that last, and the only ones that make you feel happy while wearing them.”
With a startling lack of originality, I present my entry in this weeks PhotoFriday challenge, “Polished.” I say unoriginal as it’s a pretty literal interpretation of the theme and it’s also an image I used for an earlier PhotoFriday (“Shiny“). It was taken in Stockholm, Sweden.
Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Ethereal.” I’m entry number 173.
It was nothing like as dramatic as my iBook dying one evening, but there was no getting around the fact that my nearly five year old MacBook was no longer up to the tasks that I was trying to throw at it. Developing applications, even for resource limited devices such as the iPhone, needs a pretty substantial piece of Mac software called Xcode. My photography pushed me towards getting Aperture to manage all my pictures. It’s great, but it did have a tendency to grind to a halt when it was least convenient.
- Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now! – Despite multiple failures there has been no significant release of radiation.
- Japan Earthquake: before and after – Amazing and shocking.
- Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors – I did think that the coverage suggesting a nuclear disaster was unlikely. This explains why my intuition was (probably) right.
- Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps – “More significantly, it demonstrates the vulnerability of building a business on top of a Web platform that is controlled by a single vendor.” This is exactly the lesson I found with my Delicious.com client.
- Illinois scrubs death penalty – Another step in the right direction.
- NYT and “torture”: Searching for a justification – Apparently the definition of torture depends very much on who is doing it.
The back-story to this post is that I’m the secretary of the company that owns the freehold to my flat. In the UK, Companies House keeps records of all the companies in the UK. One of the documents they keep on file is called the Memorandum and Articles of Association. This ream of legalese describes what a company is allowed to do and how it should go about doing it.
- Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow – “Tomorrow, 5 March 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the machine that did more to awaken ordinary Britons to the possibilities offered by home computing: the Sinclair ZX81.” Given my domain name, I had to link to this.
- Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Autism Groups “Kill Children” — And He’s Right – “And it is dangerously idiotic when the bad choice in question kills children.”
This week I’ve released updates to all three of my iPhone and iPad apps.
Yummy and Yummy Browser, my Delicious.com client, see the release of a big update: version 2.6.0. It includes a completely new bookmark viewing and editing screen, a new bookmark list view, updates to help syncing reliability and lots of smaller tweaks and updates. It’s the biggest gap between any two major releases but I think is a good one.
This is one of those weeks where all the other entries that I saw for this weeks PhotoFriday, “Turbulent,” make zero sense to me. Turbulent means disorder or chaotic which, to me, suggested a bumpy plane ride or a mass of flowing water. In the end I felt that this image of Niagara Falls (from the Canadian side) conveyed the message best. Landscapes or a bed don’t tell the same story to me.