Monthly Archives: March 2006

Lumbar Is Where It’s At

Tuesday, 28 March, 2006 – 15:07

I would just like to share that I just received a new desk chair from our buliding services guys and it feels wonderful.
Actual back support is highly underrated.

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The Demise of Apple is Greatly Exaggerated

Sunday, 26 March, 2006 – 22:26

From John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog:
The iPod Juggernaut
A very insightful look at the portable music player market and Apple’s stranglehold thereof. He’s right on all points, of course: as an iPod owner and user and general Apple evangelist in my geek life, I’ve heard many of the arguments against the iPod, and this pretty [...]

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That Depends on What You Mean By “Open”

Monday, 6 March, 2006 – 10:17

From Daring Fireball:
There’s a line in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint says, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
The greatest trick Microsoft has gotten away with is convincing the public that the Wintel PC platform is open.
Great defense to the number-one [...]

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