1. Jul 30th, 2008
    Set high expectation People, not surprising, leave up to their expectations.
  2. Jul 30th, 2008
    We are always preparing for the next hardware,” Iwata says. “We are under development. … But the hardware is a kind of box that consumers reluctantly buy in order to play our games.
  3. Jul 29th, 2008

    It's all very meta

    Sister:
    Fun with earth quakes?
    Me:
    that was in LA
    we're not really that close to LA
    Sister:
    Oh well. I only read the headline
    Me:
    I don't even do that
    I read people talking about people talking about earthquakes
    techmeme.com/
    it's all very meta
    Sister:
    Well thank god someone found a good use for twitter
    Me:
    the other use is for talking about people talking about people talking about it on twitter
    twitter.com/whhira/statuses/872252028
    Sister:
    Quite the spiral
    Me:
    meta circular
  4. Jul 29th, 2008
    Espresso, Extra Bitter - washingtonpost.com What do you mean “it’s just coffee”?!?!
  5. Jul 29th, 2008
    Websites don’t generally go after people. They usually sit on a server and gather spam.
  6. Jul 28th, 2008
    Google Calendar CalDAV support With instructions for using Google Calendar from iCal.
  7. Jul 26th, 2008
    http://rel.me/ Best domain name evar!
  8. Jul 26th, 2008
    End users don’t care about options. They care about experiences. Developers don’t care about options. They care about having tons of users who are likely to try their stuff. The reason you want to develop for all platforms one time is because you are trying to spend the least amount possible while reaching the most people possible. That’s a good goal, but isn’t going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately. In such a world you’ll have to pick the platform that’ll get you the most users the fastest for least effort possible. In my view that’s the iPhone.
  9. Jul 26th, 2008
    Ship or Shut Up On the perils of pre-announcing your product.
  10. Jul 25th, 2008
    Generation Text: Emailing on the Go Sends Some Users Into Harm's Way That. Is. So. Me.
  11. Jul 24th, 2008
    The idea here is that you probably don’t have a place in your home or office where you store the shells from every peanut you ever ate. If you did, you’d definitely want to organize them by the year in which you ate them, perhaps keeping separate jars per-month or per-location where you ate the nut. You know. For posterity.
  12. Jul 24th, 2008
    Silverback “Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for website designers.”
  13. Jul 23rd, 2008
    MN officers chase burglary suspect to WI and back -- chicagotribune.com “Dude, I can’t talk, I’m being chased by the police.”
  14. Jul 23rd, 2008
    the notion that any outboard keyboard should omit page up/down, home/end, delete, and so on, is just wrong.
  15. Jul 23rd, 2008
    Oriol Ferrer Mesià - LiquidMac