Falling Toward Apotheosis

A product of the iPad Generation. Sorry, Victoria, the TV...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:17:21 -0400

A product of the iPad Generation. Sorry, Victoria, the TV isn’t a touchscreen… yet. (Taken with instagram)

The Risks of Stupidity

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:27:40 -0400

A practical observation on the risks of stupidity was made by the German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord in Truppenführung, 1933:

“I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy.

The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations.

But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!”

The Perfect Martini (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:04:20 -0400

The Perfect Martini (Taken with instagram)

Elderflower liqueur. Amazing stuff.

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:47:23 -0400

Elderflower liqueur. Amazing stuff.

Average people don't see a problem here...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:33:29 -0400

From our regular morning-coffee-klatsch between my wife and I, as I’m explaining the difference in approach to the smartphone app market between Google and Apple…

Me: “Apple controls the App Store and decides which apps to sell.”

Wife: “So?”

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled..."

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:00:05 -0400

“I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.”

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:56:05 -0400

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

- Douglas Adams

"To start announcing your own preferences for old values when your world is collapsing and everything..."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:00:05 -0400

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To start announcing your own preferences for old values when your world is collapsing and everything is changing at a furious pitch: this is not the act of a serious person. It is frivolous, fatuous. If you were to knock on the door of one of these critics and say “Sir, there are flames leaping out of your roof, your house is burning,” under these conditions he would then say to you, “That’s a very interesting point of view. Personally, I couldn’t disagree with you more.”

That’s all these critics are saying. Their house is burning and they’re saying, “Don’t you have any sense of values, simply telling people about fire when you should be thinking about the serious content, the noble works of the mind?”

”

- Marshall McLuhan (via Quote and Comment)

So apparently you can encrypt external hard drives in Lion,...

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:00:23 -0400

So apparently you *can* encrypt external hard drives in Lion, however unlike enabling FileVault on the primary partition, it seems you need to actually reformat them to do so.

Note also that the disk needs to use a GPT rather than MBR, and Lion converts it to Core Storage in the process.

It’s also kind of cool that when you mount it, Lion allows you to store the encryption password in your Keychain (in the same manner as for encrypted disk images), allowing you to effectively use the drives seamlessly with your home Mac while still keeping them safely encrypted should anybody else get their hands on them.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:52:00 -0400

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

- Albert Einstein

"Simply put, what rationale does Apple have to release a successor when they are still selling iPad 2..."

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:18:00 -0400

“Simply put, what rationale does Apple have to release a successor when they are still selling iPad 2 units faster than they can make them? That isn’t to say the company couldn’t speed up its iPad introduction cycle to being more than once a year, I just don’t see the need right now.”

- filmgirl

"A 2048 by 1536 iPad at $499 (or even $599) would blow away the displays on every Mac computer Apple..."

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:14:54 -0400

“A 2048 by 1536 iPad at $499 (or even $599) would blow away the displays on every Mac computer Apple makes, except—arguably—a $1,699 27” iMac or a Mac with the $999 27” LED Cinema Display.”

- Reality Check: A 2048x1536 iPad 2 Screen Would Trump Macs, HDTVs + Unicorns | iLounge Backstage

One-Third of iPhone Users Mistakenly Think They Have 4G

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:21:41 -0400

One-Third of iPhone Users Mistakenly Think They Have 4G:

parislemon:

Shocking — a large percentage of people with the iPhone 4 think the “4” stands for “4G”. And they’re perfectly happy thinking that.

People point to 4G being the next way Android trumps iPhone. I don’t buy it. Months after we’ve seen the first devices, 4G remains largely a buzzword. Limited coverage and often mediocre speeds hamper it. Worse, it remains a total battery hog. The people I know with 4G phones usually leave the 4G off.

And then there’s AT&T’s bullshit where HSPA+ is technically “4G”.

Long story short, do I expect the iPhone 5 to support actual 4G? No, I do not. Next year.

Good points. It’s also worth considering that for what most people use their iPhones for, 3G speeds are more than adequate. Anything more is just diminishing returns.

Fourteen Years Ago Today (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:19:04 -0400

Fourteen Years Ago Today (Taken with instagram)

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience..."

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:00:05 -0400

““Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.””

- e. e. cummings

"Let’s obsess about what is best for the end user. We often make product decisions based on strategic..."

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:02:05 -0400

“Let’s obsess about what is best for the end user. We often make product decisions based on strategic alignment, partner requests or even legal advice — the end user doesn’t care.”

- Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him

Interesting to see Apple iOS noted as a feature right alongside...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:34:44 -0400

Interesting to see Apple iOS noted as a feature right alongside things like 4G and Wi-Fi in this survey question.

"The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “war” is naive."

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:20:21 -0400

“The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “war” is naive.”

- The Post-PC Era Will Be a Multi-Platform Era

"It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and..."

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:06:48 -0400

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”

- Daring Fireball Linked List: John Adams: ‘It Is More Important That Innocence Be Protected Than It Is That Guilt Be Punished’

Innis & Gunn Canada Day 2011 Edition Scottish Oak Aged Beer

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:18:31 -0400

Innis & Gunn Canada Day 2011 Edition Scottish Oak Aged Beer

Falling Toward Apotheosis

A product of the iPad Generation. Sorry, Victoria, the TV...

The Risks of Stupidity

The Perfect Martini (Taken with instagram)

Elderflower liqueur. Amazing stuff.

Average people don't see a problem here...

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled..."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"To start announcing your own preferences for old values when your world is collapsing and everything..."

So apparently you *can* encrypt external hard drives in Lion,...

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Simply put, what rationale does Apple have to release a successor when they are still selling iPad 2..."

"A 2048 by 1536 iPad at $499 (or even $599) would blow away the displays on every Mac computer Apple..."

One-Third of iPhone Users Mistakenly Think They Have 4G

Fourteen Years Ago Today (Taken with instagram)

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience..."

"Let’s obsess about what is best for the end user. We often make product decisions based on strategic..."

Interesting to see Apple iOS noted as a feature right alongside...

"The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “war” is naive."

"It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and..."

Innis & Gunn Canada Day 2011 Edition Scottish Oak Aged Beer

So apparently you can encrypt external hard drives in Lion,...