Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Nov 30th, 2009
I have just discovered a new iPhone application that has put a smile on my face: iPeng.
It turns an iPhone into a beautiful handheld controller for playing music via a Squeezebox.
Browse penguinlovesmusic for photos of the app.
We have a Logitech Squeezebox Duet in the living room, with an optical connection from the receiver to a [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 26th, 2009
I’m on my hands, knees, nose, toes, everything.
A busy lady on a busy day in New York’s Grand Central Station, quoted in the New York Times. It made me laugh.
I have visited the station a few times. First, in 1977 on a pilgrimage to see the spectacular illuminated Kodak display of Ernst Haas’s Impalas Grazing. [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 24th, 2009
Jason Hiner penned a provocative article with this subject in Tech Republic.
Taken individually, each of the four shortcomings of Linux he identifies has some merit, but altogether the whole thing seems not unlike a Mission Accomplished banner draped on the foredeck of the USS Microsoft.
1. It’s still too much of a pain
Whether this is still [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 20th, 2009
Today’s Huffington Post features a Q&A post with Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and US President Barack Obama.
The BBC, MSNBC and many others have reported on this exchange.
Yoani’s blog is published outside Cuba because Internet access is restricted in the country. A few days ago Yoani was bundled into the back of a car, beaten, told [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 19th, 2009
I was just looking at my google mail, which I use mainly for alerts, and I noticed a message about a Sony camera which brought back some feelings of relief.
I lost one last week, somewhere between Stansted airport and home. So I thought.
It’s my camera for when I’m not carrying a camera–visibly anyway (my iphone [...]
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