Category Archives: Technology

And I thought Apple fans were bad…

MG Siegler gives his take on the HTC Evo 4G Android-based smart phone and the Android fanboys come out in droves.  Read the comments.  Disturbing stuff to say the least.

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Android vs iPhone: whats with all the hand-wringing?

The last week or so has been very interesting across the many technology blogs that I follow.  Ever since the Google IO conference and the announcement of Android 2.2 the amount of hand-wringing going on over on the iPhone side … Continue reading

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Cedric Beust is Bust

Cedric Beust posts something incredibly lame on his weblog about the iPhone.   It gets picked up by John Gruber and posted at Daring Fireball.   Cedric’s website is now bust. Not surprising given how ridiculous his post about the … Continue reading

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Google AppEngine or Amazon EC2 for my web app?

Lately I’ve been investigating how to host a web application I’m building.  Being a personal project I’ve also been debating what technologies I’d like to use to write it.  I pay for a hosting account for this blog that includes … Continue reading

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I can’t take the stupidity anymore – or Google open sources VP8

Honestly I can’t take it anymore.   The Google announcement of the open sourcing of VP8 is the last straw and it’s led me to delete most of my technology RSS feeds.   Why?   Crap like this: Most likely … Continue reading

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Complacency on “Corporate Standards”

I was in a meeting today where a discussion was happening about the benefits of using Hibernate in an enterprise Java application.  I pointed out that with Hibernate the options are provided to call stored procedures, have Hibernate generate SQL … Continue reading

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RTM and Appigo go at it over RTM API access

Well well.  It would appear that the folks at Remember the Milk and Appigo are in a bit of a dust-up over the Appigo iPhone/iPad app Todo. Just a quick piece of information to make the story clear: the Todo … Continue reading

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Bye Bye Remember The Milk…

Today, after being a Remember the Milk customer for years, I gave up on them and closed my account.   I paid up for a year of Toodledo Pro.  I really loved RTM at one point.  The user interface was … Continue reading

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F***ing Crackers

I found out two nights ago that I had a trojan (or more than one) installed on my Windows 7 desktop computer.  I have no idea how or when it got there but it was there nonetheless.   My machine … Continue reading

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Web Browser Themes…Not Sure I Get It

I’ve been playing with the newest Chrome beta on my Mac for the past day or two and it is becoming an intriguing replacement for Safari (Firefox feels very sluggish to me).  The one thing I was just playing with … Continue reading

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