January 2009
9 posts
John Carmack gives some hate to software patents →
Jan 27th
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Toys For Adults
No, not that kind of toy… Although if Apple got into that business they’d probably do pretty well there, too. What I’m talking about is why I think Apple is doing so well in the electronics game while companies like Circuit City are dying off en masse, and Microsoft is losing market share at an accelerating pace. While some argue they have a superior product, and at least it...
Jan 23rd
The Important Matter of Position Sizing →
Jan 22nd
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A sneak peek at the downturn & its effect on...
This evening my wife and I were driving around Issaquah looking for a place to have dinner.  Neither of us know the area very well, so I was searching for restaurants on my G1. Our results were very interesting: 30-40% of the places we found via Google maps had closed their doors. You can’t really blame Google, it appeared these were all fairly recent closures, and it isn’t as if Mom...
Jan 12th
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Customization and Discovery →
Jan 11th
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The Seattle P-I Up For Sale →
Another newspaper is biting the dust.  It will be interesting to see how this major transition from old media to new media plays out.  Will news coverage worsen?  Will online news be able to grow into a similar behemoth that print news used to be?  Or will some innovative paper out there figure out a model that will allow printed news to flourish again?
Jan 10th
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T-Mobile G1 Review
I’ve been using the T-Mobile G1 now since launch day, and *finally* I’m getting around to writing my review. I’ll start with the downsides: Applications only install to built-in memory You can only install Marketplace applications to the built-in memory, so even if you add an 8-gig MicroSD card, you can still only fit a handful of applications on the phone because of the...
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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A Search Junkie Looks At SkyGrid →
Jan 6th