Posted in IT by Will on October 19, 2006.
Interesting post: HCI User Advocate: Switchback: Horrors of a Windows Power-user Trying to Switch to Apple OS X
Apple does do many things extremely well, but they communicate that pretty clearly. My aim here is to point out that Apple life isn’t all roses. Technology remains hard and that there is almost always a set of trade-offs associated with the choice of any platform.
I’ve had a half-completed post sitting in my queue for months now about why I’ve got no intention of switching to Apple.
The article points out a lot of the issues I had with using OS X at Ian’s place - though it was on a smaller screen (14″ Powerbook G4, iirc) - I still had a few of the same issues.
Posted in On the Intertron, Teh Funnies, Work by Will on October 19, 2006.
I’ve read the Dilbert comic strip fairly regularly for a few years now (it seems to come with the office cube worker territory), but I hadn’t known that Scott Adams has a blog.
A lot of people (Yes, I’m looking at you Scott Kurtz) rip off Dilbert for being un-funny, boring, etc. This is possibly because they don’t work in a cube farm.
It’s like trying to explain why The Fruit Fucker has me laughing madly. (Read this little excerpt of the FF story: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4). Same goes for Scratch too. (Scratch Fury, Destroyer of Worlds, to mere humans)
Anyway, I wanted to point out a funny post about “Dangerous Containers” Scott Adams put up on the Dilbert Blog.
There’s also some good thoughtful posts, like the economics of war.
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Posted in IT, On the Intertron by Will on October 19, 2006.
The BBC is reporting of the first British “Web-Rage” attack.
Paul Gibbons, 47, tracked down John Jones using details obtained online after the pair exchanged insults in an internet chatroom, a court heard.
He travelled 70 miles to Mr Jones’ home in Clacton, Essex, and beat him up with a pickaxe handle in December 2005.
It turns out they were having a Religious argument on Yahoo. I guess that explains everything.
(via Slashdot | Britain’s First “Web-Rage” Attack)
Right, the next person to spawn camps me gets it.
Posted in On the Intertron, The Law by Will on October 19, 2006.
This is another example of litigation wary schools going crazy.
School bans tag and other chase games.
Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they’ll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Everyone was worried that kids were playing too many computer games — now they’re stopping kids from running around and having fun.
I think the slashdot story tag is rather appropriate: from the sorry-fun-has-been-cancelled dept.
(via Slashdot | School Bans ‘Tag’)
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