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technology

Nobody Really Likes Farmville

Tuesday March 9, 2010

I think I will stab myself in the stomach with a fork if one more person sends me a stray chicken or cat or whatever it is that people keep sending me; but it’s worth reading this seriously fascinating psychological analysis of why people play that annoying game.

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Password Schmassword

Tuesday February 2, 2010

Are you using the same password for everything? You probably are, aren’t you? “That’s okay,” you’re thinking, “It’s a really, really hard password. Nobody will ever get it.”
Not so fast, fish-breath.
A recent post on the Twitter Status blog details a new way that some crafty crackers are stealing passwords. It basically [...]

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Adventures with Microsoft Support

Wednesday January 27, 2010

My XBox 360 broke near the end of December. I was playing EA Sports NCAA Football 10 at around 3 o’clock in the morning — with the Gators leading 45 – 10 against an unbeaten #2 TCU late in the 3rd quarter of the 2014 BCS Championship Game — when the screen suddenly went [...]

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Google Hates Me

Tuesday December 15, 2009

For some mysterious reason the Google PageRank™ of this website dropped to zero about a year and a half ago.
I really have no idea why. It didn’t coincide with any major design changes and I didn’t do anything black hat here (or even white hat) that would have caused that.
Every few months I think [...]

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Absurd Directory Structures

Friday November 6, 2009

As soon as I saw the story about giant jellyfish sinking a Japanese trawler posted on MetaFilter, I sent the link to my friend Ryan via instant messenger. (Ryan, I know, is fascinated by tales from the Japanese fishing industry.) He said, “[the] story would’ve been perfect if the jellyfish had actually eaten [...]

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Star Wars Design Flaws

Friday August 21, 2009

Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can’t get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.
from John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design

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The Google Segway

Friday August 7, 2009

Remember the Segway? It was supposed to revolutionize human transportation. Remember the hype? It was everywhere. It was amazing. And now years later it’s nowhere. The day we all finally got to see a Segway I felt just about exactly the same way I felt when I finally got [...]

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Friday Five: Feeds to Follow

Friday August 7, 2009

Five great development blogs to which you should subscribe:

DevTips (subscribe)
ProBlogDesign (subscribe)
David Walsh Blog (subscribe)
NETTUTS (subscribe)
Raymond Selda (subscribe)

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iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials

Tuesday August 4, 2009

If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit [...]

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If you’ve been creating new playlists left and right, eventually you are going to have a long and cluttered list of them running down the left side of your iTunes window. You do know you can group them into folders, right? Just click File and then New Playlist Folder. Now you can [...]

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