April 2010
10 posts
What's in a Name: iPad
The iPad is a terrible name, many people agree (Bijan wrote about it this morning), but there’s a message hidden in the poor name choice. But first a brief history lesson.
Apple (specifically Jobs and Woz) was a pioneer in pushing forward the paradigm of bitmapped displays and windows-based GUIs. But, they were not the inventors of such technologies. The original source, like most of...
Two Things
I’m back from my trip to SE Asia. It was an awesome experience, and I’ll have plenty of photos forthcoming in the next few days. But, before I get to that, two things:
1) I’ve got a bunch of emails and meeting requests flagged from the last three weeks, and I’m certain there’s a bunch more that simply slipped through the cracks. I’m sorry I have not been more...
Hue
Unfortunately all of my pictures of Hue are on my real camera, not the iPhone, so no picture update from Hue, Vietnam.
Hue was likely once very beautiful, but two wars (French and American) and a period of occupation has left the old Imperial City in pieces. As a result the sights are “important”, but also a bit underwhelming.
Hue has a shortage of basic resources. The electricity...
