It’s either an angry, slanderous lie, or Bill Gates is an uninformed jackass.
You decide. Bill Gates in Newsweek, or John Gruber on Daring Fireball.
Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.0 This week: 89.1
Tuesday 30 January: Not a lot to say these days, as I still seem to be on a plateau. I’m not about to start nose-clipping, or crazy spicing. Maybe what I need to do is eat lunch on my own more often. Yesterday, for example, I was tempted into half a vent...
I understand there are now cameras with built-in GPS systems that record where each photo was taken. I can’t afford one. But I do have a GPS device and a digital cameras, so it seems silly not to marry the two. But it is not in fact as easy as it seems, not if you want to do it right. I’ve been trying to work out a reliable workflow, which I thought I would share.
... nerd and proud.
Communicatrix is the best.
Bottom line: true nerds — Good nerds, if you will — don’t think the world revolves around them. They have a healthy curiosity about the world around them, are always looking for new, cool, interesting stuff, and are continually improving themselv...
Rebecca pointed to an excellent essay on The Merits of Nitpicking: A Doctor Diagnoses House by Henry Jenkins. The basic riff is that popular culture provides a way in for people to get involved in obscure subjects. Jenkins wonders:
how we can incorporate something like the nitpicking proces...
