Boring stuff. Mostly nonsense.
I still remember clearly the first time I saw SimCity run on a friend’s computer, back in 1990. It is hard to describe the feeling, but it was more or less one of the most impressive pieces of software I’d seen, not for what it was as a game, but for what it represented: a […]
Yes, you guessed it. The most visible highlight of this year’s WWDC keynote is a brand spanking new web site for Apple.com. That’s it folks. Nothing to see here. Move along now. Or is it? More seriously, I bet the average Mac user is going to be baffled, still waiting for those über-features that were […]
Στην Ελλάδα φαίνεται πως έχουμε ‘λύσει’ το πρόβλημα προ πολλού. Ενώ τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει παρατηρηθεί μια τάση επανεξέτασης της πολεοδόμησης και της συνύπαρξης ανθρώπινων καταυλισμών και φύσης στον δυτικό κόσμο, στην χώρα μας προχωρούμε στη ταχύτατη ανοικοδόμηση της Ανατολικής και Βόρειας Αττικής αλλά και της υπόλοιπης επικράτειας με τρόπο που δε διαφέρει σε τίποτα […]
Πριν από 6 μήνες έγραφα για τη παραπλανητική χρήση του Triple Play, που αποτελούσε βασικό θέμα της διαφημιστικής καμπάνιας της Forthnet. Η εν λόγω διαφήμιση έβαζε ‘λάδι στη φωτιά’, σε μια αγορά όπου η πρόσβαση στο διαδίκτυο παραμένει ίσως η προβληματικότερη στην Ευρώπη των 27 και τροχοπέδη για την ‘Κοινωνία της Πληροφορίας’, ή όπως θέλει […]
For reasons unbeknownst to me, Xcode has been seriously misbehaving lately. In most cases the problems had to do with its buggy parser/writer and required me to open the .xcodeproj files with TextMate and fix them. One example, that tortured me the other day, had to do with spurious compiler flags added there for no […]
If it’s about the users, then it’s about independence, stupid. Name the four or five online services/web sites you use daily. I bet among others you’ll find Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, blogspot and wordpress.com (for those blogging/publishing online) in most peoples’ lists and in some, the most ridiculous of them all, Twitter. What’s wrong with all […]
The short answer: because it comes from Microsoft and reeks of its aspirations of total domination monopoly. Because it excludes Linux even before it’s out. Because it doesn’t conform to Open Standards. The long answer: I recall only too well the web-hell of yesteryear when sites required Internet Explorer, when proprietary, temperamental Microsoft DHTML was […]
It’s that time of year again. The latest version of Ubuntu, the most popular linux distribution of the past few years, version 7.04 codenamed “Feisty Fawn” just came out. But what does it bring to the average user? Before I start my brief review, let me preface this by stating that Feisty is definitely an […]
I was one of the early adopters of Skype, the, now ubiquitous voice over IP application/platform created by Niklas Zennström of Kazaa’s fame and now owned by eBay. But, truth be told I never really warmed up to it. You could say it was imposed on me when its simplicitly stood there laughing at my […]