This: There’s a blog on technologizer about how Apple products != jails I’m sick of the smug insults delivered by some people at Apple users – simply because we *choose* to use an Apple device. So we can’t hack it and play around with the source code and … Good. I’m glad. I have no desire to...
Well that was far more difficult than it had any right to be. I am enjoying reading books on my iPad; while I prefer the feel of an actual paper book, the ease of access, portability, searchable nature, and so on with eBooks, are absolutely brilliant. What I do not want though, is to...
Unbelievably, where I work we don’t have electronic medical records, so we face what this picture (click to embiggenate) depicts – all the time. I mean seriously, this is 2011 … right? We have these things called computers … right? Hat-tip to David Bradley for the image.
I had an enjoyable chat this evening before dinner, with my 90 year old grandmother. Not any sort of stereotypical grandparent-ish chat; no doilies or tea, or Abe Simpson-esque reminiscing. Not at all. The catalyst for this evening’s chat was a Hubble calendar she had sitting around. We began to talk about the Hubble Deep...
That is: making music so it is for everyone, not making music that everyone will like…. That’s no clearer, is it? What I mean is this article linked to by Dan Levitin – he of the wonderful book ‘This is Your Brain on Music’. I haven’t yet watched the video, as the video page...
