The problems with Apple’s handling of apps.
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I have been using the Kindle for iPhone app on my iPodTouch and iPhone recently. I refuse to pay for an e-book (yet), but I have downloaded a few free books from Amazon. It’s ok. I basically use it while nursing or on the Metro. Right now I’m reading some Sherlock Holmes stories. [...] A couple of Twitter notes. Three excellent things. And curiosity about where technology will be in a dozen years. On Larry Lessig’s recent article “Against Transparency”. Three random links from my delicious feed. Jeff Rosen (the one who tried to smear Sotomayor out of a Supreme Court appointment) has written a piece for TNR (blech) on net neutrality. The first few paragraphs of the article don’t seem terrible, but I couldn’t read any further because I was too horrified at the companion image/illustration they chose to run with [...] Image via Wikipedia Apparently Google is not taking very good care of the Usenet archive. That’s disappointing. And speaking of Google, I’m still waiting for my Google Wave invite. It’s been several days now since at least two different people “nominated” me to play. Harrumph. I am a bit embarrassed to confess that I [...] For years, I have been wanting to write a blog post or a paper or a rant or something about how privacy is not the same as secrecy. And how one aspect that’s almost always missing when it comes to discussions of how to protect privacy is that of personal ethics. Bob Blakley (with whom [...] In the hardware world, there is a wonderful phrase: mean time between failures (MTBF). It means, roughly speaking, the average amount of time one should expect before a hardware failure. It’s an average, of course, so your piece of hardware that has an MTBF of 3 years might fail after just 2 months. Or it [...] |
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