I have long been fascinated by the way people do their jobs and more specifically how they are managed, and how the two come together to produce an effective workforce. When articles like this one appear, I then get to… Read More ›
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Why I left Mac for Windows. Whatever…
But recently, I realized I’d gotten tired of Apple’s attitude toward the desktop. The progress in macOS land has basically been dead since Yosemite, two years ago, and Apple’s updates to the platform have been incredibly small. I’m a developer,… Read More ›
The Apple ‘experience’
A quick article running through what I experienced over the weekend trying to set up a new iPhone. Check iPhone SE and attempt iCloud backup. Realise that it has not backed up for 4 days for no apparent reason. Start… Read More ›
Which of our neighbors have been rounded up so far?
There were travelers stranded in airports, many of them students, some of them long-time residents of the United States, some of them persona non grata in their countries of origin who had suddenly been rendered effectively stateless; refugees who had… Read More ›
The Wreck
Of the nearly 600 souls on board the crippled steamship, five were priests. Over the noise of ripping wind and sailors shouting, the holy men offered spiritual counsel to any passenger who would listen. They assured anxious women and children… Read More ›
Are You An Echo?
In 1966, while leafing through an obscure book, a 19-year-old Japanese aspiring poet by the name of Setsuo Yazaki discovered a poem that stopped him up short with its staggering generosity of empathy and existential truth conferred with great simplicity:… Read More ›
Why I think I need a Psion-style device, but won’t be buying the Gemini PDA
The world has moved on a lot since Psion exited the mobile market, an exit that for most people is either a distant memory or of no consequence whatsoever. For those of us, however, who were introduced to the world… Read More ›
The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide
It seemed too good to be true. On April 13, with reporters from the New York Times and NBC News hovering nearby, Dan Price, the young chief executive officer of Gravity Payments, a Seattle-based credit card processing company, told his… Read More ›
Smartphones as we know them will be dead in five years
Right now, we use the phones to send messages, make calls, browse the web and watch things. That’s still going to be the case but the real innovation in the future is going to come from software and a large… Read More ›
When organisations don’t bother validating email signups
I received 3 emails overnight saying that I had signed up for offers, deals, newsletters and various other crap that I did not need or want. At first I thought it was just normal spam, but then I looked a… Read More ›
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