Friday, September 28, 2012

Why are OS X solutions easier to find than Windows solutions?

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When something goes wrong on a computer, we all turn to Google.  Almost all. I suppose Apple employees have to use Bing. I can usually fin...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Islamic rage and free speech.

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A guy with a big chip on his shoulder isn't going to do well. He's easy to play with, but even without manipulation he's going t...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tom Cook's great test: the response to Apple maps.

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Contrary to Joe Nocera's impression , Steve Jobs' Apple screwed up a lot. MobileMe wasn't the only disaster; even iCloud was a r...
Friday, September 21, 2012

What has Apple done for me lately?

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The new iOS connector cable. iOS 6 maps. iOS 6 Podcasts. RSS Deprecation. iTunes 11 (train coming). iCloud. Siri. Lion. Embedded webkit hole...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tachytely and human evolution: implications for the Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox

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I haven't done a Drake/Fermi Paradox post for ages. A lot has happened in the meantime; in particular estimates of the number of potenti...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Why I'll be deferring iOS 6 and iPhone 5: podcasts gone

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I listen to several Podcasts; using smartlists to identiy partly played casts and those I haven't started. That won't be possible c...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Information archeology: a challenge for Google Reader (or its successor)

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There's an immense amount of knowledge, insight and entertainment in the feeds I follow . Using Reeder.app  on my iPhone, and Google Rea...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Gerbil- the Achilles tooth

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And now for something completely different. This posts consists of two warnings about gerbils, the weird and probably inbred [1] semi-domes...

The Cosmo story, the facade of online security, and the US Postal Service.

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Mat Honan, who is making a career out of being hacked, has a solid profile of a juvenile delinquent hacker [1] -  "Derek", alias C...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

iPhone 5: meh.

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What I wanted from the new iPhone and Apple Ability to specify calendar colors for Exchange Server/ActiveSync calendars Water resistance ...
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Sunday, September 09, 2012

Home maintenance: Our toilet leak, why Google searches about home problems suck, and my fix

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Emily claimed the toilet was running. It seemed fine to me. Flush, fill, stop. She didn't believe me, despite my stellar home repair hi...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

Learning French: using free speech recognition services to improve pronunciation and accent

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I can learn most things pretty easily; but not music or language. Tone deaf is an understatement. This was a problem for a lower class angl...
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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Education - how much has math teaching changed?

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I have thought of myself as somewhat mathic. I'm certainly no mathematician, but I did it well back when raptors roamed the earth. When ...
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Monday, September 03, 2012

Do evolutionary strategies evolve?

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Biologists study evolutionary "strategies", such as r and K selection . These are the strategies deployed the Great Programmer as...
Saturday, September 01, 2012

Weird economics - why our kids end up with expensive iPhones that make me nervous

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The US mobile market may not be quite as bleak as Canada's, but it's pretty bad. What I really want is to be able to buy a full-pric...