January 2010
The iPad is a a product in a new category. That means it has to find new customers. As an iPhone owner, I don’t think I need one.
Here’s why I think the iPad will succeed. All the geeks are wondering why they’d want one.
Right, food. Checking out for a while.
Only caught the iPad coverage fleetingly. Fairly confident that my predictions have won the office competition. No Flash, people.
Exhausting and long day finished here in São Paulo. Back at the hotel composing my thoughts on the day before heading out for food.
RT @BarbicanCentre: Calling all web developers…@BarbicanCentre is seeking a web development agency: http://bit.ly/4XA3OX Deadline for …
Stalingrad author Anthony Beevor is in the lounge Reading up on Sri Lanka.
RT @BarbicanCentre Calling all web developers.. We are seeking a web development agency: http://bit.ly/4XA3OX Deadline for submissions 2 Feb
Settled into the business class lounge at Heathrow with a nice G&T. This is definitely the way to travel.
A wine list on a plane? Rioja made from 100% tempranillo? With *my* reputation?
My bag of peanuts warns: “contains peanuts and may contain traces of nuts and seeds.” You think?
RT @stueccles: Careful @simonianson your slamball career might end like this http://bit.ly/7LRcLP « hahahaha
Flash on the Tablet? Geddoutahere.
So @9to5mac seem to have moved to extracts only on their RSS feed = unsubscribe
RT @shanerichmond: Blogpost: Five lessons from my e-reader experiment http://bit.ly/5YaGPi
OH: “how do you spell illiterate?”
RT @Padraig: Name Predictions: 1) it won’t start with an ‘i’. 2) your mum will prepend an ‘i’ to it anyway.
I had my appendix removed when I was 12. I think they left the prependix in though.
I shan’t be able to read the live blogging of the Tabletnote on Wednesday, so I’m dosing up on the earnings call. Tragic.
Jobs: “The new products this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product we’re really excited about” « excitement++
Jesus. Apple sold 8.7m iPhones in the last quarter, up 100% on the year ago quarter. Mac sales up 33%. http://is.gd/71P1w
OH: “did you use Google?” - “no, I was just searching my brain”
RT @mikelaurie: Ooh look, Steven Pinker is on Twitter @sapinker « wicked. I’m reading his excellent “How the Mind Works at the moment.
The phrase “executed for crimes against humanity” is surely self-contradictory, no?
All politics is based on FUD. Only the degree differs.
RT @kimbobarella: V Dissapointed with The Hurt Locker « me too. Formulaic and derivative. Watch Generation Kill instead
RT @26books: New post: On Photography by Susan Sontag (James’s book 3, 2010) http://is.gd/6Wjy8
Tourists at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Mausoleum at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Marcel Proust's Tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Solitary Rose on the Tomb of Oscar Wilde at the... →
Roof of the Musée d'Orsay →
Shadow of a Cross at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Jacob Epstein's Memorial Sculpture for Oscar Wilde... →
Family Tomb at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Vault at the Panthéon →
Panthéon →
Promenaders in the Jardin de Plantes →
Shadow of a Cross at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Shadow of a Cross at the Père Lachaise Cemetery →
Cyclists on the Rue St. Jacques →
Some photos from our Paris trip. Rather fewer than I hoped for due to poor light most days. http://is.gd/6TAyk
Official: Gareth Bale is shit
While we’re at it, a snake slithers, and you cut a sliver of cake. “A slither of cake” doesn’t make any sense.
How on earth is ‘Poker dot’ the correct pronunciation of ‘polka dot’?
RT @shanerichmond: Did you know that pinball used to be banned in the US? http://bit.ly/7wtIIc (Even if you did, you should check out th …
Finally! A use for all that unwanted gold I have lying around.
how #QPR was….every #QPR fan should watch this http://j.mp/8NWoyu Can we get this back??? /via @scottjones1978
Wow. Just read Michael Hofman’s demolition job on Stefan Zweig in the LRB. Absolutely no punches pulled.
Patrick Kielty? Fucking hell.