Tumbling along...
My tumble log for everything that's longer than 140 characters. I am @luke24@shoanm on twitter.
May 17
Apr 30
So ASUS makes the most reliable laptops. It’s surprising that Apple is in fourth place considering that they make a lot of the hardware that goes into their macbook(pro)s.
Laptop-Reliability Study Highlights the Most Sturdy Laptop Makers - Laptops - Lifehacker
Apr 29
Tata Indicom spamming on #vark
- aardvark-g209@vark.com:
- You there? I have a question about *Tata Indicom* that I think you might be able to answer.
- It's a new user's first question - you can welcome him to Aardvark!
- (Type 'sure', 'pass', or 'busy'.)
- Shoan Motwani: sure
- aardvark-g209@vark.com: (From Tata Teleservices L./M/Mumbai,IN)
- Hi,
- Tata Indicom Photon+ works on Mac and would like to inform you that you cannot switch to other service provider with the same device.
- Thank you.
- (Type 'pass' to skip, 'refer' to forward, or 'more' for options.)
- Shoan Motwani: flag
- aardvark-g209@vark.com: I'm sorry I sent you an inappropriate message! I'll follow up to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
- If you have questions or comments, please send an email to support@vark.com.
Apr 15
Puma goes green. Reinvents the shoe box.
Reboot: Puma and Yves Béhar Spend Three Years Designing Super-Green Shoebox | Fast Company
Apr 13
» Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself « Sharing the truth one thread at a time
After reading this I don’t feel bad for Adobe. What goes around comes around.
Apr 08
» Clients from hell
Scene: Trendy restaurant in NYC, we are sitting with our prospective client who is with her “marketing consultant” at a dinner meeting. Prospective client has already downed two drinks in rapid fashion.
Client: “Our product is going to become ubiquitous in the marketplace. We need millions of customers.”
Us: “That is great, how do you plan to achieve this goal?”
Marketing Consultant: “We are going to use the power of the web.”
Client: “Yes we want you to help us harness the ‘power of the web’ to get this product out there.”
Us: “Can you be more specific? There are many tactics…….”
Client: “The power of the web is it.”
Us: The “power of the web??”
» After six years of development OpenTTD reaches 1.0.0
Sadly the Mac version has been discontinued. Now I’ll have to fire up an Ubuntu VM to play it. :(
Apr 07
“ For those of you, who own an unsupported device we are offering the navigation license for a substantially reduced cost. This cost takes the technical limitations and administrative costs for legacy devices into account. We feel that offering a one-year regional navigation license for around 9.99 EUR is a very attractive offer for all those who have a GPS-enabled Nokia device.
Mar 30
