Stolen blatantly from Michael Sippy of Six Apart because it made me laugh:
I wouldn’t call it a courtesy call.”
Steve Ballmer on the call he placed to Jerry Yang last night.
Microsoft-Yahoo! Quote of the Day…
•01Feb08 • Comments Off on Microsoft-Yahoo! Quote of the Day…Online Storage and Economics
•29Jan08 • 1 CommentJames Duncan Davidson has written a great article about the Economics of Online Photo Backup at the O’Reilly blog Inside Lightroom. Very interesting to me to see how the world of professional photographers is changing, and to see how expensive it can be to backup a large photo library.
Of course, using an online system as your backup is one thing, and using it as your primary is another. The recent tales of woe at Joyent over Strongspace and Bingodisk had me wincing in pain, both for their customers and for Joyent as they tried to deal with the outage. As someone who develops hosted services that include a very large storage component, reading this stuff and the comments that ensued had me waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. What’s most interesting about the story, though, and the thing that ties it back to the backup story mentioned above, is how much economics was a driver for how the Joyent systems were architected and how those economics reflected back in the outage.
Living without Mac Office
•29Jan08 • 4 CommentsI decided to go ahead and update my macbook pro to leopard. I decided I needed to do a clean install as my system had been getting a bit crufty with stuff and I’d heard nightmare stories about the upgrade path. The clean install worked like a charm, and it was amazing how much of my settings came back just thanks to the .Mac keychain and settings sync – for instance, MarsEdit and Transmit seemed to just come up licensed like magic.
But doing a clean install also meant reinstalling my apps, and this time around, I decided not to install the old version of Microsoft Office I’ve been using for years. We don’t have a license for Mac Office 2008 here at Adobe yet, so I’m going to try living with Buzzword for word processing and Keynote/Numbers for presentations and spreadsheets. All three apps can even open OOXML documents, so I rarely get stuck with a document I can’t read. For those cases and to read Adobe email, I use a VMWare image running XP and Office 2007.
My system is a ton faster without any Rosetta-based PowerPC apps running on it, and buzzword is a lot more pleasant to use than Word. When we do get access to the new version of Mac Office I’m going to have some interesting choices to make.
IE8 passes Acid2
•19Dec07 • Comments Off on IE8 passes Acid2Congratulations to the IE team on making IE8 pass ACID2. The IE Blog post goes on and on about why backwards compatibility is so important to the IE team. You can skip all that and just read the last three paragraphs before Dean Hachamovitch’s signature. Bottom line is this is a big milestone for the web, and it will be an even bigger milestone when they ship the thing. Still waiting on word about more support for the other standards they’ve been ignoring/sabotaging for years, like ECMAScript, but I’m not holding my breath.
My favorite smart-aleck comment was from Dave Shea:
IE8. Acid2. Better bundle up, it’s a cold one in hell today.
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