Jun
9th
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9th
Jun
7th
Sat
7th
Look ahead.
Jun
6th
Fri
6th
Amazon’s new homepage! Hmm… I can’t find the Checkout button. C’mon, at least make the error page more exciting. Or give every Nth visitor a coupon code like the ones you find underneath bottle caps? Flash game?
Jun
3rd
Tue
3rd
The second mouse gets the cheese.
— Anonymous.
I consider myself an innovator, so it’s difficult to acknowledge that being the second one to the scene is better than being the first, though the quote has an interesting point.
I consider myself an innovator, so it’s difficult to acknowledge that being the second one to the scene is better than being the first, though the quote has an interesting point.
May
30th
Fri
30th
MacBook Pro drinks coffee.
Whilst working diligently, I accidentally swatted a half-full cup of Starbucks iced coffee on to my 3-month-old MacBook Pro. A nasty thing to do on a sunny Friday afternoon. It only took a second or two for the screen to go black. It drank about a quarter of a cup of bean. And I mean drank. When I lifted up the machine and tilted it, coffee would pour out from 3 sides. Unfortunately for you guys, the first thing that came to mind wasn’t to take a picture. My theory is that the caffeine had a steroid effect and that the machine is now more powerful than before. I had to tap the power button to check for a pulse. It did in fact come to life, but I turned it off. I’ll probably disassemble it and mop the insides before attempting to use it. Let this be a lesson to you all, and serve as a formal excuse for not promptly replying to e-mails, Facebook messages, and the like.
UPDATE: It survived! I can’t believe it even turned on. Keyboard was a little quirky though. I think a few keys were stuck or shorted, not to mention the entire computer reeked like your local Starbucks. Resetting the SMC cured 99% of the strange behavior, but operation of the arrow keys, left Shift, and “i” keys was still intermittent. Don’t you know it’s best to ignore your problems until they go away? Two days later and the entire keyboard works. The other problem with stuck keys is that your computer wakes up instantly after it goes into sleep mode, but this stopped too. The moral of the story: only spill coffee on a Mac ;)
Google’s new favicon gives the company a more casual and cartoonish appearance. I like it. I don’t love it. I wonder how many design iterations it took, and how many candidates were in the final round. It’s only a 16x16 pixel update, but it does get a lot of visibility.
Resealable Coke cans: a public market research study.
May
28th
Wed
28th
A debut album from Ryan Fawcett.
Check out Ryan’s new website and purchase MP3s from his new album before it hits stores in July.
May
26th
Mon
26th
The jacket is part of the outfit.
May
24th
Sat
24th
An engineering masterpiece I call: “sink-bath”.