Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people retweeting the decades old picture of that cat with the lime on its head using bit.ly links is stupefyingly pointless — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. Who says I'm late to the social party?
Version warz
· 569 words (devours about 3 mins)Quick, quick, release, release. Can’t get left behind or people will think our browser is stagnating against the competition.
Label me mad
· 435 words (wastes about 2 mins)Take one sheet of 21 labels in a 3×7 matrix.
Mix with Microsoft Word.
Waste an evening trying to get the labels to line up.Dear Apple
· 1532 words (vacuums up about 7 mins)An open letter to Apple on navigating the landmines scattered between the iPod / computer interface.
Strive not for unnegativity
· 347 words (eats up about 2 mins)Even in the touchy-feely age of gestures and finger taps, user interface design is littered with confusing options and crappily worded dialogs.
Apple variance
· 67 words (vacuums up less than a minute)Are there twin divisions in Apple Corp codenamed Schwarzenegger and DeVito? Certainly appears that way.
Haikows
· 79 words (vacuums up less than a minute)When Windows and haiku collide the result is a Technicolor landscape of evocative imagery and badly conceived software.
Multilinguality
· 1448 words (vacuums up about 7 mins)Some people speak English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Swedish. I speak BASIC, 68000, C, Tcl, awk, PHP…
Consult the Oracle
· 67 words (munches less than a minute)Database giant Oracle seem to like trumpeting their own greatness. But it appears they don’t know the meaning of certain words in the English language.
