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I find articles like this contradictory & stupid now days.

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:06:00 -0700

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I find articles like this contradictory & stupid now days.

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:05:41 -0700

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Trying out Google image search using an actual image of myself & this is what is gave me :P

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:42:11 -0700

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Having fun at the @FOWD HTML5 workshop. @Brucel is doing a superb job.

Mon, 16 May 2011 02:48:52 -0700

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The Baseballs - Umbrella

Fri, 28 May 2010 02:09:23 -0700

Umbrella by The Baseballs Listen on Posterous

I love this track :) Much better than the original IMHO

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:22:29 -0800

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Why does digital content cost more in many cases than physical content? Why? What's that all about?

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:38 -0800

I've noticed a trend in digital contant costing an arm and a leg. I've noticed this in music, audiobooks, films/movies, games and now Apple are going to do it with eBooks.

Now correct me if I'm wrong but surely a digital version of something that we download should cost a fraction of the physical (hold it in your hands) version. Since with a physical version there is a huge amount of costs involved (I'm just concentrating on the stages from the point of when the product content has been made to the point of sellable). From sourcing the materials, paying workers to work in factories to make the items, pay all the workers in the factories, insurance, premises etc. Then pay for transport of the items to the various destinations, pay for the packaging etc, pay for the advertising POS, etc etc etc. I mean, I don't have a clue about this stuff and I'm probably forgetting loads of extra costs but you get the idea.

Now with a digital version after the content has been made, all that I can tell comes into it is for whomever the provider is to pay for bandwidth (similar would be shelf space for a physical item). Other costs obviously come into it such as payment fees, but these would be at the sale stage, similar to the physical item also.

So, with all this in mind, why are digital versions more expensive than physical items in many cases? With illegal downloading so common place I would have thought that this would be the ideal solution to phase this out. Viruses and bad quality downloads are enough to push many people into paying the little extra to buy a legit digital version. But when they cost as much or more then something someone can buy at the shops, most people wouldn't bother (I know it's wrong, but it's true).

In the recent light of Apple saying that eBooks will be a set price, this is just adding to this problem. It will lead to users jailbreaking and just downloading eBooks. Once the jailbreaking starts the users will then just start downloading the apps too. It just doesn't make sense to me. Especially when I could buy a paper book for about £5.

Any views or facts about this please share.

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Up & Down Sleep pattern

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:15:24 -0800

Sleep statistics for 05 - 06 Feb (Sat).

Went to bed / woke up: 00:57 / 08:16
Total time: 7h 19m

Analysis made by Sleep Cycle.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

- Suleiman

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Nuit Blanche

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:40:21 -0800

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Amazing short movie from start to finish.

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Yeah! My carrot cake muffins rock the house!!

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:40:20 -0800

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Future of sites on the iPad

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:50:40 -0800

I'm curious at whether the iPad will hold it's own or it's browsing will just be like the iPhone / iPod Touch stretched out. I know currently there are sites such as Deviantart.com and many others that when going to their url on my iPhone it shows it in a better custom design for the small screen. Now will we be able to make one site work differently on a computer, iPhone AND iPad now? Or will it just be a case of it looking better on the iPad in it's original form, then what? Can we set it so it doesn't show the default small version on the iPad for mobile Safari?

Basically as designers of the sites, we work at the user having the best possible experience for the device they are using it on. I'm wondering how the iPad will differentiate from the iPhone with it's version of Mobile Safari.

Any comments or views on this would be great, thanks.

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I've finished setting things on fire (that was fun ). I stink like an arsonist #fb

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:47:22 -0800

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I've finished setting things on fire (that was fun ). I stink like an arsonist #fb

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:47:21 -0800

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Carphone Warehouse, Apple & O2 = Couldn't give a damn

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:07:58 -0800

Really not happy with Carphone Warehouse and their crappy service, nor Apple for that bloody matter. After ringing them for about half an hour I eventually get through to a person and then get told that it could take up to 4 weeks for them to look into why my battery is draining super quick and no replacement phone.... seriously?
Why do I pay for insurance, contract , phone etc?

4 WEEKS!!?!?!??!?!?! I'm guessing I'll still be paying the £50 contract fee over this time with no bloody phone also!
Also, just to moan some extra, the bloody earphones haven't worked for ages and the usb lead is coming apart like the rubber coating is shrinking exposing all the wires.

I honestly believe that customer service is a thing of the past and it's just about getting people into contracts and then saying 'screw you' once you need any help.

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Waiting for the next show to start

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:59:27 -0800

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Waiting in McDonalds, drinking coffee, waiting for the rest of the family & entertaining little dude

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:01:57 -0800

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Just testing Tweetie2 settings. Pls ignore. http://www.google.com

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:55:50 -0800

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Just testing Tweetie2 settings. Pls ignore. http://www.google.com

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:55:42 -0800

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My RSS Dilemma

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:30 -0800

I've been using RSS for quite some time over the year and have managed to get quite a large amount of sites that I follow through this method. I used to use Google Reader and was very happy with the service. But over the years I started getting stressed out at the shear amount of unread posts. I wasn't sure what was quality and what was crap. So I made the decision not that long ago to use Fever - http://www.feedafever.com so it would show me the feeds worth reading.

I didn't get the hang of this for a while and whilst I grew to like the computer version (using Chill Pill on the Mac) I hated the iPhone version. It was sluggish, messed up quite a bit, rarely loaded articles and also only worked when it had a connection, which is a problem for me as I read most of my feeds whilst commuting on the underground.

So my next route was go back to Google Reader and use a decent iPhone feedreader. I chose Newsstand and I've been completely smitten with this. It's brilliant, it truly is. The only downside now is my Mac version. I want the brilliant Fever style reader that lists articles based on popularity and that way I just forget the others.

So my solution is (if possible) to have the Newsstand working with Google Reader and have Fever on the Mac. This would be my perfect setup. The only problem being they don't work together in sync. So if anyone knows any way, using AppleScripts, pass-through apps, jiggery pokery, what ever. Please please share your wisdom.

~ Sul

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Sweet!!! I got me some space food for lunch!

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:16:43 -0800

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