January 2011
25 posts
Notational Velocity 2.0β4 - scrodlog →
Sats scrod: “With this version of Notational Velocity (version 2.0β4) I’ve tried to curb the ever-growing list of issues by fulfilling as many small-to-medium enhancement requests and bug fixes as possible.”
WatchO: A Presidential Novel
Oh, my…
“Mike Lux, CEO of Progressive Strategies, calls the foreclosure crisis “the great...”
– Obama Reassures Democrats (Mostly) in SOTU Address | The Nation
“This was not the Franklin Roosevelt speech progressives longed to hear.
This...”
– Obama’s ‘One Nation’ Speech: A Little FDR, A Little Reagan, A Lot Like Ike | The Nation
“Crass and stoopid it may sound, but that’s the point: ‘21st Century Breakdown’...”
– Green Day - Album review: Green Day - Album Reviews - NME.COM
…and the music’s good. (The rest of the review is rather ridiculous, but he’s a Brit, so it’s excusable)
“In a DealBook Portrait last month, Mr. Benmosche spoke candidly about his...”
– Robert Benmosche, A.I.G.’s Chief, to Stay Until 2012 - NYTimes.com
DDB: That statement by Bob might be one of the saddest quotes I’ve seen in a business article. Bob came back to serve AIG and the American people when he didn’t have to, and when we really needed him, comfortably...
Justice with Michael Sandel - Home →
DDB: It reminds me of the 1989 Columbia University PBS series: Ethics in America, but this program is more deeply supported by Harvard with on-line readings, discussion groups, books and Sandel’s own volume.
“Trade sales of adult and juvenile books were steady at $8.1 billion in 2009,...”
– AAP Yearly Industry Statistics
DDB: Compare this report to the MPAA Industry snapshot and you get a glimpse why the movie industry (and just about every other industry) is clobbering the book industry. Don’t just compare the numbers, compare the format and strategic thinking that went into...
“Total [book] unit sales fell 4.5% in 2010, to 717.6 million, at the bookselling...”
– Units Had Modest Decline in 2010
“In the span of a single news cycle, Republicans got a jarring reminder of two...”
– Barack Obama takes opportunity Sarah Palin missed - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com
“Any adult still using an iPhone 3G or an iPod touch 2G needs to get with the...”
– iOS 4.3 drops iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G support | 9 to 5 Mac iOS 4.3 drops iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G support | Apple Intelligence
“One story you could tell about income inequality is that in the last 30 years,...”
– Did Bankers Rob the Middle Class? - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
DDB: College tuition is a progressive tax, where more successful families pay more. The sense of being jipped each time the tuition bill arrives with a rather arbitrary number presented based on someone’s sense of a...
“Yet such is the state of things. We have a news media that is psychologically...”
– The Politicized Mind - NYTimes.com
DDB: Once again, David Brooks speaks wisdom against the power of his own employers.
Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT on Broadway – Green Day... →
Yes, I have tickets…….
“Update 12/7/2010: Good news Apple fans, OverDrive Media Console now adds support...”
– eNYPL for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch | The New York Public Library
No comment about reading a book in an iPhone app on an iPad. (Okay one comment: How much is our city’s budget deficit again???)
“Mr. Chaffetz (R-Utah) is happy to share his own time-tested tips — tape a...”
– House Members Opt to Sleep in Their Offices - NYTimes.com
“How to get the Fujisu Scansnap 300M and Evernote Working Together”
– How to get the Fujisu Scansnap 300M and Evernote Working Together « Paperless Mac
Works well for every other PDF app as well.
Tim Morgan's thoughts that are too big for... →
riscfuture:
I’m astounded that there hasn’t been a peep from Gruber about the problems and inconsistencies in the Mac App Store application, and those of the apps sold on it. My first experience with the Mac App Store was a purchase of the new Twitter app, of which Gruber had this to say:
My new…
“Future Plans for Bean Coding work on Bean verison 3 is in progress. Bean 3 will...”
– Roadmap for Bean
MyTextFile
I learned of MyTextFile from the TakingNote web site. The design metaphor is from the old days when geek-like people collected and managed their writings in one large ASCI file. MyTextFile is one large ASCI file in the sky.
There are advantages to the single text file structure:
- Full search is quick and comprehensive (a benefit which has been depreciated on the Mac by Spotlight, and on Windows...
“From officer evaluations to promotions to job assignments, all branches of the...”
– Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving - Magazine - The Atlantic