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Blaine Cook's code notes on scaling twitter
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The hidden British English spell checking options
July 2007 Archives
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Mind map of the S60 3e UI compared to the iPhone, showing the depth and complexity of S60. Yes the iPhone does less, but it is transparent in terms of what it does.
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Hopefully this will put an end to this mast hysteria nonsense. So WiFi, mobile phone masts and MMR are all safe.
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An interesting approach to deaing with email overload
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That is a lot of money.
A while back I had one of those the internet as a service experiences. Lucy found a cd in our CD player and didn't recognise the wordless disk art, so to determine which CD it was, she popped it in her macBook and iTunes told her, via gracenote, that it was the excellent LFO album Sheath.
The internet has been a fundamental part of our house for a good while now, thanks to Be and WiFI, but it grows ever more so daily. I remember there was a guy researching this in early 94, a Norwegian Prof, who had his house on a 64k line and he described the experience as it becoming an appliance, only now we have the services to hook up to it, Google, amazon, gracenote, email etc.
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This is in my future
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A nice writeup on making your new N95 work well with the Mac.
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Very funny set of iPhone contact pictures
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Class and clothing with a background of humour, a lovely article from New Statesman
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The Santa Rosa 15" screen is the best laptop screen for colour accuracy according to Rob.
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Lovely overview of the furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames
Why did I just take an 18 month contract and a new N95 than wait six months with my Nokia 6630 and get an iPhone on O2?
The primary driver was availability, plus GPS, 3G, a decent camera and the rest (funny mocking ad comparing N95 and iPhone). I've waited through the N70, the N80 (briefly) and the N73 waiting for a phone which can act as a computer, camera and phone in one. I'm interested in how much of my persistence I can manage through my phone. I'm a twitter user and with the N95 I'll become a jaiku user. Then there is fire eagle and getting the flickr client working again on my phone.
The iPhone looks nice, but as willo and Duncan point out it is not without its flaws. Much of the UI strangeness comes from it feeling like an American product, not a European one. SMS is an important part of my life, as is decent 3G access. It seems unlikely that the iPhone will gain either 3G or proper GPS soon. The SMS issues, like only one recipient will be fixed, but the mapping aspect is important.
I lost my phone a while ago and I've not got round to moving the Lumisoft map application to my replacement 6630. I miss it a lot. I'd not realised how much a part of my life it had become for me in London. The N95 promised to offer this for the whole of the UK and potentially the rest of Europe. That is tempting.
Give me 18 months and an improved iPhone and I might be tempted, but for now the open environs of the N95 seem quite tempting, I'll be installing apache and Python soon. I really hope Omni allow S60 access to the rails app in OmniFocus though.
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Part of a special issue on science fiction from Nature, this article looks at the impact of the original many worlds paper.
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Essay on why design has become an essential field to understand for company boards. Good to see, feature lists are dull.
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Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
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I want one, process yellow or a blue
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7 or so hours sleep is apparently the right amout
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A video of me speaking at Google, giving a revised version of the provenance talk from xtech
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I was hoping it'd be Orange, but no matter. I'd predict that O2 will sort out the lack of EDGE sharpish, or 3G will come to the iPhone.
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Wonderful lights of German design, though no prices, so probably a scary amount.
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I've been told this is excellent and great value too.
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Excellent article charting the changes from web1 to web 2.0 model and innovation from the founder of hotornot
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Favourable review of Nature Network in the Education Guardian, featuring Matt Brown our editor. They take a slightly odd dating angle, but hey.
