Reactions to Paul Graham’s views of future trends.
I really enjoyed watching this video of Paul Graham at the 2009 Business of Software conference, in which he discusses 21 future trends he believes we can bank on. Having grown and sold an early web
Needed: Scheduled disabling of the iPad’s cellular data connection.
As a consequence of the nightmare I've had with Vodafone trying to contract an iPad data plan, I happened to discover a more attractive alternative — the iPad pre-paid card from Orange.
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Apple Customer Service in Spain.
My brother, who lives near Atlanta (United States), visited an Apple store last week to check out some odd behavior with his MacBook. The technician noticed that his battery has physically expanded
German government bureaucracy
Recently, some bureaucrats in Germany decided that business owners who employ contractors even those, like me, who've been in business more than a decade should provide certified proof that they
Are we entitled to data security?
In a Wall Street Journal article related to Twitter's settling of a privacy-related case, Consumer Protection Bureau Director David Vladeck states:
Consumers who use social networking sites may
Startup disk recovery and repair — lessons learned.
Yesterday, the SSD startup drive in my OS X MacBook became extensively corrupted, such that the computer would no longer boot from it. The process of recovering and repairing the drive revealed a
And so it begins with Orange Crazy iPad experience.
After an unbelievably bad experience trying to get an iPad microSIM from Vodafone, I decided to change gears and go for a pre-paid microSIM from Orange, as advertised on theirspecial iPad web page.I
The nightmare that is Vodafone Espaa Ordering an iPad microSIM
I am about to tell a story that, for me, is simply surreal. If it hadn'tactuallyhappened to me, I probably wouldn't believe it. It's about my recent attempt to acquire a microSIM card for my iPad
Reconciling A Random Walk and The Great Wall.
Dr. Burton Malkiel, professor at Princeton university, is one of my favorite authors on the subject of investing. His book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, is considered one of the cornerstones of
Building software is hard
Its always difficult to tell potential customers that we simply dont know how long its going to take to build a software system, if said system is moderately complex. This is one reason we avoid