Back from a week in SoCal. Five days at theme parks and only one Segway sighting. We visited family, ate lots of great Persian food, and even shopped at Fry’s for a card keyreader. Fry’s has everything except smart card readers, apparently. I didn’t believe the sales guy at first, but after sneaking some time […]
Duncan talks about the benefits of certification, in response to a developer’s skeptical comments. I don’t have a ton of sympathy for people who feel that they don’t need certification. Admittedly,aperson can be certified and yet be a terrible developer. And there are developers I know who could pass the tests in their sleep, and […]
News.com is finally picking up on the story about Google publishing press releases. Now, it’s true that you can’t believe everything you read in a press release, but everyone knows that. And press releases are no less believable than half of the stuff these self-righteous journalists regularly write. Rather than insult our intelligence with this […]
[Singapore Straits Times] According to well-placed sources in Beijing, Chinese leaders do not know whether to laugh or cry at the outside world’s belief that they have leverage over Pyongyang.
This is really clever; point the finger at Russia on the same day that China shoots down any U.N. Security Council action against North Korea. Mr. […]
Awww yeah! When 14 year-old Emily can play protest ruckus on XBox while her 17 year-old sister goes out to meet boys and fight globalization, you know the protest scene is going mainstream. The game trailer is great; they’ve got a Che impersonator doing voice and the rhetoric is strangely similar to the rhetoric being […]