Blog

Writing and links.
Mostly links.

'Wi-fi refugees'

'Wi-fi refugees' shelter in West Virginia mountains - BBC

Be open, they said...

Do Not Develop in the Open - Daring Fireball

Nice looking notebooks from Lenovo

Lenovo Laptops photo by Joanna Stern

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s ultrabook, U300, and U400 coming this October (hands-on) - This is my next

"Improvements in Windows Explorer"

Improvements in Windows Explorer – Building Windows 8 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

This is what happens when you look at the past with a magnifying glass. They should be looking forward and not backward. They collected a lot of data on what people are doing, but not why they are doing it. This is a completely ass backwards way to ‘design' and can only result in the kind of mess Windows 8 Explorer looks like it is set to become.

iPad

The marvel of the iPad is not that it can replace a Mac. It's that it opened the door to all sorts of things that a Mac was never all that good for.

- John Gruber of Daring Fireball

Camera Development

Lytro's Ren Ng sheds some light on the company's ambitions - DP Review

WebOS is dead, long live... uh, some other OS

HP to Cease Making WebOS Devices - Daring Fireball

Low Key Top Officials

China debate over US envoy's coffee run - BBC

Bush vs Obama

Bush Obama spending

The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling - The Atlantic

Spotify Invasion

Spotify launching in the US at 8AM tomorrow, open to all pre-registered users - This is my next