- Appeal
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Nothing appeals to everyone. Even if you try to make something that appeals to everyone by adding every single clamored-for feature, you wind up with something like Windows that does not appeal to people with a taste for the elegant and refined.
- BSD vs GPL
Wednesday 8 July 2009
You either think freedom, real freedom is a matter of trust and optimism, or you think you can only have freedom, real freedom at the end of a gun.
- You go, Air NZ!
Monday 6 July 2009
“[Air New Zealand] didn’t dream up [Jetstar’s] draconian check-in rules, his schedule that often cannot be met, his endless schedule changes and his decision to operate ill-equipped aircraft to Queenstown that cannot achieve the same punctuality as Air NZ’s fleet.
- Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors
Monday 6 July 2009
- Open standards win
Monday 6 July 2009
[In 1994, MSN had] identified O’Reilly as an interesting specialty publisher, just the kind of target that they hoped would embrace the Microsoft Network (or MSN, as it came to be called).
- The double-edged sword of corporate Web 2.0 adoption
Monday 6 July 2009
Kids look forward to turning 18\. It means they have more freedoms: they can legally make decisions for themselves, they have a greater amount of self-determination.
- Huge cracks in wheel of misfortune
Sunday 5 July 2009
- He's a man on a mission, and that mission is underwear
Saturday 4 July 2009
Anxiety is up, underwear is down. And King is on the road.
- Something I've learnt
Friday 3 July 2009
(Part of a just-started series of stuff I’ve learnt and probably shouldn’t forget).
- Bare essentials of safety
Thursday 2 July 2009
via youtube.com
Yet another reason to love Air New Zealand. Nicely done.