EGOPOLY

A nice article by Wil Shipley:

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/07/mojave-experiment-bad-science-bad.html

1. I don’t care that you say it’s pronounced “cool.” It’s going to be pronounced “kwill.” It’s like Sony coming out with the line of TVs spelled “WEGA” and saying it should be pronounced “Vega.”

2. Fail. (one of many examples):

Sorry, I try to keep snark out of the blog as much as I can. But when you storm onto the scene and say “we’re bigger than google,” I can’t control myself.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/computer-fight-cartoon.php

And this post was written with it.

I was going to download this cool-sounding app that cleans up your iTunes library: fixes cover art, track names etc. Then I noticed the download took me to a .exe file, and got all annoyed. Then I went back and noticed this little disclaimer which made me lol and stop being annoyed.

Dabbleboard

iPhone:
Flight info
Hotel info
Boston Coach info
Fully charge

Computer:
presentation
verify keynote is installed on computer
verify VPN to home/work
verify iDisk sync
charge computer

Laptop bag:
Empty first
Full itinerary on a piece of paper, in outer pocket, and on fridge at home.
paper copy of conference agenda
Computer + charger
ipod + headphones
extra iphone headphones
extra ipod USB cable
ipod/iphone wall charger
camera?
2 books
medicine bag
toothbrush
mp3 cd of good music if renting a car
energy bar
pen
notebook/paper
business cards
eyeglasses case so I don’t leave them on the plane in the seatback again!

Duffle:
clothes + 1 day extra
swimsuit
dress shirt?
dress shoes?

Wear:
phone
travel watch
sports jacket
dress shirt
minimize wallet

For me, MobileMe has been a fucking disaster. First, during the first few days I had ENDLESS contact/calendar conflicts, and MobileMe actually deleted a random set of about 100 contacts.

That’s all settled down now, but now iDisk has become so unreliable that it’s almost pointless. If I don’t explicitly sync up a computer, and then check that something made it up to the server (via the web UI), then get on the other client computer, and push the sync button, and sometimes reboot, and push the sync button a few more times, nothing syncs. This is despite the fact that everything is set to “Automatically” synchronize.

Guess what? Copying stuff to my personal web site and manually copying it back down is less of a hassle. And I’m paying for this? Bleah.

There is a ton of info on the iPhone dev center on developer.apple.com. But two things I have found particularly enlightening for an “old” like me are this tutorial and Aaron Hillegass’s book “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X.”

Hilleglass has just about the right amount of detail for a programmer like me, with more years of experience than I would like to admit.

The iPhone apps are great. But one is conspicuously absent. Where is SSH?