Juan In a Million has the best breakfast taco in Austin. If you go, spring for the extra tortilla (you’re going to need it).
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
If Intel’s stuff is quad core, then two motorcycles bolted together are a car.
Lots of net-nerds have misunderstood the Apple / Starbucks announcement (I’m looking at you, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose).
Apple has announced free WiFi in Starbucks, from your iPhone, when accessing the iTunes Store. That’s it. Not the whole internet — just the store. The announcement that some people heard — unconditionally free WiFi at Starbucks for iPhone owners — is at least a hundred times cooler than what’s actually going to happen.
Here it is, straight from www.apple.com/itunes/starbucks:
As long as you have an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer with the latest version of iTunes, you get free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes Store and to Starbucks Now Playing content.
It’s pretty hard to blame people for the misunderstanding. Coffee shops which charge for WiFi access are totally cheezy. The internet is like air, you morons. You don’t charge for air.
PS: If you happen to be at my local Starbucks, just cross the street. There’s free WiFi (and better coffee) next door at Tully’s.
Nothing puts my wallet back into my pocket quite as fast as DRM. The details hardly matter. I won’t fire a single neuron to even attempt to understand your DRM system. Not one.
From the “it’s-about-frickin-time” department, Google Reader finally has a search box. Better late than never.
Here’s what my buddy Rob had to say about today’s price cut:
$100 Price Drop Expected on iPod Touch!
Reliable sources say the iPod touch will be dropping by $100 in about 6-8 weeks. That’s a whopping 30% on a brand new product! It is highly recommended that you all wait to purchase your sexy new iPod touch until then. When asking my sources how they received this information and explaining to them how absurd their prediction is, they replied “Didn’t you see the price cut on the iPhone today with no refund for people who purchased the phone more than 14 days ago?” Oh right. Can’t argue with that.
In closing, I don’t actually have any sources and my interactions with them are purely fictitious, but I wouldn’t doubt that kind of price cut in a few weeks given today’s iPhone price cuts - would you? Better keep your money and only buy OLD Apple products since Apple stuff looks like it is going to depreciate worse than a car in the future.
See? I learned my lesson. Bad early adopter! Bad early adopter!
Update:
Apple has seen the error of their ways. They are offering a $100 rebate to all existing iPhone owners (in the form of store credit). Nice work, Apple. Nice work.
- Safari 3: ⌘} and ⌘{
- Firefox 2: Ctrl-Tab
- iTerm, Adium: ⌘→ and ⌘←
Can we just pick one and stick with it?
Update 3/28/2008:
I just discovered an alternative sequence for Safari: Shift-⌘→ and Shift-⌘←
If you’ve read a half-inch-thick C++ book in the last few years, you’ve probably heard that you should never use macros. Instead you should use inline functions and templates (with a few exceptions, such as use of __FILE__ and __LINE__.)
Well, I’m here to say that there is nothing in C++ which will drive someone to write more macros than templates.
Templates merely whet my appetite for compile-time code-generation, and then almost always fall short. Ultimately, my devotion to the DRY principle is stronger than my allegance to Sutter or Meyers — so I write a macro and get on with my life.
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