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Obligatory iPad Post

“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and [...]


iPhone WordPress Theme with WPtouch

A couple months ago, I was using Safari on my iPhone when I came across a blog with an amazing iPhone theme. It had a nice UITableView feel, with badges for comment counts and even an on/off switch at the bottom. And right below that, it said, “Powered by WordPress with WPtouch”. I thought, “Man, [...]


Icons, Iterated

iStockPhoto is awesome. I updated the blog icons just now with a great set from iStockPhoto: Satin Icons from scottdunlap. Very vibrant and clean. I love all of his icons. I couldn’t find a LinkedIn icon on the site, so I googled around and came across IconsPedia. A user there, Quaqe9, posted a huge set [...]


Filter Failure

Clay Shirky gave an excellent talk at the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo NY entitled “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.” Referring to the world before the internet, he said, “the inefficieny of information flow wasn’t a bug. It was a feature.” We can all relate to the feeling of information overload, but Shirky gave [...]


Atomic Transactions

I went to the gas station yesterday to fill up my car. It was the normal routine until I squeezed the pump handle and nothing happened. I tried it again, took the pump out, put it back in, squeezed. Nothing. After half a minute of this, the machine beeped and asked if I’d like my [...]