Tag Archives: work

Flooded ...

05Mar2007 1 Comment
So, yes­ter­day we dis­co­ve­red that our ser­ver room, built out quite nicely by a pre­vious tenant, is loca­ted directly under an HVAC chi­ller. The land­lord didn’t seem to know this, either. This kind of equip­ment invol­ves a coo­ling water line direct from the City main. It broke. And dum­ped a few thou­sand gallons of water onto [...]

I want a SunPad ...

12Feb2007 Leave a comment
I was flip­ping through Marc’s copy of Tog on Soft­ware Design and was intri­gued by the “Sun­Pad” in Tognazzini’s desc­rip­tion of Sun’s Star­fire film (which itself is very remi­nis­cient of Apple’s Know­ledge Navi­ga­tor con­cept): She looks at the Sun­Pad dis­play, which now has the camera con­trols sla­ved to it. It’s as if the Sun­Pad were a large [...]

iPhone dreams ...

07Feb2007 Leave a comment
I know it doesn’t mat­ter, but I have so many things I wish my next phone/​PDA could do, I’m going to list them for my own amu­se­ment. Even though most of them won’t hap­pen very soon, at least while the iPhone remains clo­sed to native third-​​party applications. I could manage data with spe­cia­li­zed tools. Special-​​purpose edi­tors [...]

Design fanboy ...

23Jan2007 1 Comment
Besi­des being a very happy AAPL inves­tor, I’ve been accu­ra­tely iden­ti­fied as one of [them]… those Apple fan­boys that narrow our focus away from the company’s com­pe­ti­tion, rea­ding Mac­Ru­mors rather than /​.. What’s frus­tra­ting is how the Apple fan­boy label is used to dis­miss my view­point, impl­ying that my jud­ge­ment is merit­less, clou­ded by the rea­lity dis­tor­tion [...]
Aether Child Theme by altamente decorativo & bendler.tv | built on Thematic Framework