October 2011
1 post
Four months with Android: reflections, grievances...
dinnerwithandroid:
OR, The longest, most awkward dinner of my life
tl;dr version: I’m really glad to have an iPhone 4S.
(Note: this was written over multiple days, spaced weeks apart.)
I approached this experiment with a lot of questions, the primary of which was quite simple: why do people use Android? I had my own preconceived answers — they dislike Apple or couldn’t get an iPhone for one...
July 2011
1 post
Help a Brother Out?
Hey, All
Please help out a mate of mine to win a car! He’s sitting in the Honda Hybrid on Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg, and he’s been living in the car from Monday, and he’s got till Friday.
It’s a competition that Eveready and 5FM are running at the moment.
If Bruce gets voted to stay in the car till the end, he wins it, and it’s the new Honda...
November 2010
1 post
Modern Nerd: The Importance of Abandoning Crap →
There’s a flimsy line between wimping out and moving on. I should know; in recent years I’ve left a comfy full time job, launched six websites, abandoned two, ditched archery, and turned my back on origami. I remember the sad words of my Cello teacher when I announced I was quitting that:
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September 2010
1 post
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No iTunes Ping for South Africans
I’m pretty disappointed by the fact that South Africans can’t fully partake in the full Apple experience. I’ve just downloaded iTunes 10 and Ping is visibly absent. I tried signing in with a US-based account, to no avail. A connection error comes up & iTunes freezes. So once again, we lose out on Ping, the new Apple TV and the movies, music and all the apps that the iTunes...
August 2010
10 posts
“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it...”
– Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
“It is always too soon to quit.”
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iPhone Icon Generator
Love the iPhone icons? Well, now you can upload your favourite images and have them converted into iPhone style icons.
Awesome and super easy.
iPhone / iTouch Icon Generator.
“Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take...”
– Dave Eggers
“F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the...”
– Steven Pressfield
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
– Buddha
“Do something that scares you every day.”
Codefish
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
July 2010
24 posts
“It is better to try and possibly fail than to be successful in doing nothing”
“Chuck Norris doesn’t go on the internet, he has every internet site stored...”
“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to...”
– Michael Jordan
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
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I write like Cory Doctorow →
Science Confirms, Once And For All: The Chicken... →
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain →
How-to: Effectively manage your Facebook privacy... →
How to avoid getting into trouble on facebook.
via Engadget
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“I’m not afraid to take a stand
Everybody come take my hand
We’ll...”
– Eminem - Lyrics from ‘Not Afraid’
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Rumors of smaller Apple iPad models with OLED... →
How to Create a Tumblr Theme (Code Structure) →
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupe
The Jack Parow website is now live! →
“…has explicit content and can damage young minds.” For over 18s only!
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts...”
– Buddha