Contact management and calendaring are two of the most fundamental things people do with information appliances. These are so core that I think they lay at the center of working with an information appliance. Over the past years we see how there have been attempts to usurp the formidable status of the office suite –…

Record-breaking cold spells in many places, last year there was a severe drought that impacted a vast swathe of the Midwest. The year before record flooding. Right now in the west is a serious drought and already some communities are under pressure due to water shortage. Is this all the kind of clusterfuck which James…

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Ok.  Now today there’s another news story being published about how the NSA is developing or has the capability to obtain data from “leaky” Android and iOS apps (such as the popular game Angry Birds). Now someone might read this latest story and think “Why wouldn’t the NSA develop capabilities to obtain such data?”  That’s…

about Afghanistan (link to BBC video).  The narrator says that the situation there is not like in Iraq.  Most people on the outside believe that the average person there hates the US and NATO forces and wants them to leave, yet that appears to be quite opposite the case, even among conservative Muslims.  People do…

I’ve used the Vim editor for so long yet never used its spellcheck feature. Tonight while typing a journal entry I wanted to do a spellcheck and found out how easy it is: just type :set spell Here’s an excellent page with everything about Vim’s spellcheck feature: webdesign10.com: How to Use Vim’s Spellchecker The other…

This is so outrageous. Judge Koh is at it again, this time slamming Samsung in favor of Apple because Apple had a patent on – get this – auto-complete. I seriously cannot believe the system is this fucked. This judge should lose her seat on the court. Apple should be slapped with a huge fine…

This is horrible. Hundreds of dolphins have been rounded up in a cove in Taiji, Japan and are either being killed for meat or enslaved for life after being sold for large sums of money to marine parks and aquariums. If it were not for the demand from marine parks and aquariums and the exhorbitant…

Found out that the type of coffee table I visualize having with my new Ikea Tidafors tullinge-grey loveseat is a mid-century or danish design. One can view Google Images for these keywords and see many different, interesting examples of types of coffee tables with these designs. The main features I like/want are: rectangular top with…