Archive for December, 2009

What is the cloud?

The cloud is an iteratively evolved technology that has been around for years that enables companies like IBM to make cryptic commercials spewing meaningless jargon at would-be consumers.
It’s a bunch of computers hooked together folks. Disperse, there’s nothing to see here.

Come to think of it

Every sword is a double edged sword.
It’s just that sometimes the other edge is shitty and meaningless.

A modest proposal

If ghosts were real someone would have hit one with a car by now.

iPhone SDK Wishlist for 2010

Better timespan/date functionality. Look at Python. You can make date objects in Python that can be added to Interval objects using the (+) sign. THAT is a language, my friends. All this [dateWithIntervalGivenFactorialTurnLeftAtTheExxonStation] stuff has got to go. Also, is it to much to ask for a [date dayOfTheWeek] method? Flash has this stuff years [...]

Wow. Games for Mac.

I’m surprised at how many games are now available for OS X.
It used to be just mediocre games with low system requirements… but now I am seeing games like Warhammer Online, and X3, which are both major system killers to this day.
Is Apple bribing these developers to ship clients for an OS where only a [...]