June 2010
2 posts
My awesome iPhone 4 delivery story
This morning, the FedEx tracking page changed from “Delivered by 10:30 AM” to have no delivery date/time.
I took it in stride, but then I got frustrated, and decided to give FedEx a call to find out exactly what the deal was.
I got through to a human surprisingly quickly (thank you Mary!) and after giving her my tracking number and she informed me that iPhone orders were varying in...
My fellow Americans: I have not been entirely truthful with you. I did gegoogidy...
– Glenn Quagmire
April 2010
5 posts
stammy:
San Francisco in 4K. heart.
Mind. Blown.
3 tags
Apple was prepared
In yet another post about the possibly stolen prototype fourth-generation iPhone, Jason Chen details the disassembly process of the device for Gizmodo.
Here’s an excerpt:
There are no markings on the board, but even so, the board was encased in metal all around so nothing could get through and would be very difficult to remove without breaking the device. Anyone trying to take this...
2
The number of lines visible beneath my eyes.
March 2010
6 posts
Flash
Me: What the hell is this?
Her: It's a swiff file.
Me: SWF?
Her: Yeah.
American Idol
Friend: Do you watch American Idol?
Me: Hell no.
Friend: Why not?!
Me: Because it's gay and stupid.
Her: Can you get rid of the virus?
Me: VIRUS, GO AWAY
"High-end thrill-seekers pay to be kidnapped" →
stammy:
“Through the company’s simulated kidnapping packages, for instance, the participant is abducted without warning—after leaving a restaurant, say, or in the supermarket parking lot. Paying “victims” are then bound, gagged and imprisoned for four or 10 hours (depending on the scenario they choose), allowing them to experience the terror of the real thing. Additional elements such as ransom,...
Typography fascinates me. →
(via mclaughj)
iPhone icons →
January 2010
7 posts
Linux doesn't really have that sort of problem
Windows Server Friend: My own machine is DOS'ing itself.
Me: So it's a virus or something?
Friend: I guess so. I scanned it; I don't know what I'm going to do.
Me: Yeah, us Linux folks don't usually have that sort of problem.
More Random Spewing on The Tablet/Event
It’s not going to have the word “tablet” anywhere in the name. The name will make perfect, “of course” sense once it is announced, and the name will likely be a common term that will be forever known as a name that changed computing as we know it. Yeah, I went there.
The mockups are all foolishly wrong. There won’t be any tiny UI elements (like the OS X menu...
5 tags
Random Thoughts on "The Tablet"
I didn’t feel like going all-out with a post, but here’s a quick, non-edited thought:
Thus far, every commentator (aside from the philosophical ones like John Gruber and the like) has focused solely on the “touchability” aspect of the device.
I don’t believe that this is the case. With the iPhone and then the iPod touch, Apple introduced multi-touch to the world,...
Twitter Tees?
spinchange:
Someone nominated one of my toots to be a threadless twitter t-shirt:
I don’t know who @abrahamvegh is but it was a nice and welcome surprise. Here’s where I shamelessly ask you to vote for it, provided only, of course, that you enjoy it :)
Just your friendly neighborhood nominator. ;)
ptrckm-deactivated20100605 asked: how was your day?
December 2009
5 posts
Email Aliases →
SiteSprint II →
An Ode to Droplr
chrisbowler:
It’s so much more enjoyable to work within the Droplr interface than the WordPress backend.
Chris, I’d like you to meet Dean, and his little friend named “Fluency.” ;)
November 2009
3 posts
topherchris:
ZOMG ANSWER ANSWER I CAN’T TAKE IT
October 2009
6 posts
You don’t need Mac OS X’s single-application mode →
on Personal "Profile" Sites →
Morgante Pell:
With respect to the design, I feel I’ve reached the ideal equilibrium with respect to the Goldilocks Principle: interesting, but not garish.
This is one of the reasons I chose a mostly black-and-white scheme for my new personal site. Too much color only serves as a distraction. Morgante’s site is wonderful though. And his writing is even better.
Timeline delays this morning
twitterstatus:
We are currently investigating a problem causing many users’ timelines to be delayed. We will update with status here shortly.
I’m being affected by this. Very annoying. Feels like the web is dead.
If I had a penny for every time I clicked “Send …”
2 tags
Marimba is the new HelloMoto.
September 2009
6 posts
Setting alarms like it’s nobodys business. ohai tumblr.
1 tag
Safari’s new trick →
Improvements I’d like to see in the next iPod →
Sadly, I’ll be relegating that lame joke I was about to tweet to my lowly tumblelog.
ohai four in the morning
August 2009
111 posts
I wish it were winter already. It appears the weather agrees with me.
1 tag
Oh, and the Tumblr iPhone app kicks ass.
That’s right people, now I have the Tumblet.
1 tag
Cat. I iz one.
Blocking and reporting Twitter spammers with a...
gesteves:
A simple shell script that blocks a Twitter spammer and sends a direct message to @spam to report it: (↩ denotes a line wrap.)
#!/bin/bash
curl -s -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d "id=$1" ↩ http://twitter.com/blocks/create/$1.xml
curl -s -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d "text=$1&user=spam" ↩ http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.xml
Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your username and password,...
College
Sister: What are you taking up in college?
Mom: He's taking up time and space.