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Jan 22nd

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Keyboard Launchers

A few of you know that I’ve toyed around with programming keyboard launchers before. That work never saw the light of day (largely because I couldn’t get the GUI quite right). The reason I started the project was because the current crop of keyboard launchers were deficient in one way or another. I still think they are, but the competition has gotten a lot tougher recently: Launchy has...

Jan 17th

The Origin of the iPhone →

“Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work. The phone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The...

Jan 11th

Jan 7th

I Like Monkeys

I like monkeys. The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys. I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching...

Jan 7th

How many five-year-olds could you take in a fight? →

Jan 6th

“Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies...”

– Linus Torvalds, on the choice of a penguin as the Linux logo

Jan 5th

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October 2006 (San Jose, CA) By Paul Varghese. (thanks andrea!)

Jan 4th

gethuman →

How to get to a live human on the phone for customer support. Save yourself the headache one day and bookmark this site.

Jan 2nd