Angry Thoughts
20 years doing something doesn’t make you an expert…
A few days ago, Macworld posted an article about the User Interface Design of a forthcoming third party iPhone App. Mighty Gruber posted it on Flickr, and the comments went wild.
Let’s say it, I think the design is pretty bad. Let’s say something else : some comments on the Flickr thread are plain wrong (a few are [...]
I lost… Fare & Square
This is one of these moments…
A bitter taste and a hard time getting through.
I was just beaten, Fare & Square, on the finish line, building a small web app.
Here is how it started.
Like many I was first confused when I heard about Twitter, a few months ago.
Some kind of broadcasted one-way IM, 140 characters limited.
I didn’t [...]
A FAILing industry
There are many kinds of FAIL. Some might even be quite funny (when you’re not the one failing, of course).
But there is one fail that bothers me right now, a whole industry failing: the Home Entertainment Industry.
I’m fond of US fictions, TV or movies. But I live in France. So from Day 1, I bought [...]
Mr Anybody’s Computer
Let me introduce you to the Anybodys.
Mr and Mrs Anybody are just that : anybody.
They live in a random so-called modern country, have a decent monthly revenue but not more, and they pass through life influenced mostly by media and assimilated.
(And they are not to be confused with my mother).
Of course, Mr. Anybody has a [...]
Worth nothing
The difference between an idea and a successful idea, is our ability to make it real.
The same goes for blog posts: even though I have plenty of ideas for good posts, I don’t write them.
So just like an unreleased idea, my blog posts worth nothing…
This is lame. But I’m working on it…