Don't believe everything (or anything) you read here ( Read more... )

GMail's anti-spam seems completely ineffective. This is what I woke up to this morning, after 8 hours of sleep:


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Dear Firefox,

We've been together now, what, 9 years? Remember back in the M18-ish days in 2000 when you used to shit your image cache? Aww, so cute. Yes, those were fun times.

You were new then, so I could forgive your kinda sucking.

But 8 years later I'd expect you to get your act together. In particular, a slow network operation should ( Read more... )

Apparently 90 is the approximate number of CDs one can rip before the MacMini's internal drive dies.

Sad.

iTunes struggles ripping a CD, syncing an iPod, and importing a few dozen songs into the library all at the same time.

CPU? Nope, not pegged.
Network? Gigabit, not saturated.
Disk activity on the server? Barely any.

Conclusion: threads r hard.

yay spinny beachballs!

Computers suck.

The winner of the worst permalinks ever goes to.... Digg!Another Digg user, David Recordon, has sent you a shout. You can read it at the following URL:

http://digg.com/users/bradfitzpatrick#send-shout

Cheers,

The Digg Team
Seriously?

Seeing this story that the iPhone SDK might be late made me remember a conversation I had with an Apple employee who I ran into at a bar in San Francisco recently.

I told him dan_erat's theory that the Apple SDK won't let you write an AIM/XMPP/Yahoo/whatever IM client, as then it'd cut into SMS revenue.

I said,"So that means either no network access, or ( Read more... )

Omg ( Read more... )

Why does my Verizon EVDO card "disconnect" me on my Mac? Two or three times per hour it drops and I have to "reconnect". Very frustrating, as all TCP (ssh, usually) connections die. (Yes, I use screen... I'm still angry ( Read more... )

My iPhone has developed a horizontal band where the touchscreen no longer works ( Read more... )