December 2011
17 posts
Dear Subway,
Throwing my sandwich in your industrial microwave thingy for 18 seconds does not a toasted sub make. That is all.
Dec 29th
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It's Legendary! →
Hey wow! Just Dance 3 includes “Let’s Go to the Mall” by Robin Sparkles!
Dec 29th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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So much misunderstanding around Carrier IQ →
BGR: Federal investigators have launched a probe in order to examine Carrier IQ’s smartphone software, which tracks a range of activity and sends certain data to wireless carriers without users’ knowledge. Carrier IQ executives met with officials from both the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commuission on Tuesday, The Washington Post reports. “We are complying with all...
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
Dec 9th
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Haunted iPhone?
My iPhone 4 is running iOS 5.  Just sitting here at home minding my own business and, all on its own mind you, the iPhone started playing “The Good, The Bad & The Queen” by Herculean.  And then, it automatically redialed the last number… which really kinda freaked me out. What. The. Hell. Right? Then my 18 month-old son hands me my bluetooth headset. Suddenly everything...
Dec 8th
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The simplest user interface you could imagine
When it comes to television, I have no idea what that could be. In his time with Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs is famously quoted making reference to a future implementation of tv. Isaacson wrote: And he very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple and elegant. “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is...
Dec 8th
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Determine which process is listening at a specific...
Software developers are ignorant, lazy, and sometimes evil. What I mean is, they often giving astoundingly detailed - yet useless - error messages when conditions for their code to run aren’t right. Like this gem from an IBM WebSphere log: Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Unable to connect: The application could not log on to the server “myserver.domain.com:123456”. The user...
Dec 6th
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Checklist for the funeral home
Things you need at the funeral home when you’re handling the paperwork for a deceased loved one… even if it’s pre-paid and pre-arranged: their drivers license and social security card the names and dates of their immediate genealogy including: their parents and grandparents their siblings their children and grandchildren their (ex-)spouse(s) a copy of their...
Dec 5th
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