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My setup is almost complete

I’ve recently taken order of my 27” iMac (2011, i7, 2GB 6970m, 3rd party 12GB RAM). I have what I need computing wise, but the furniture is seriously lacking. I’ll have to replace the desk my Windows desktop is held with something better. 

This is becoming a hobby of mine, arranging the place I spend a significant portion of my time. At my computers!

I feel I’m a little too serious..

When I plan on writing something on a blog, it is usually because i want to. It isn’t something I’ll usually want to use to purposely share funny little things I find on the Internet.

Which is why I don’t use this much.. I think tumblr doesn’t suit what I have in mind for it.

An iOS Developer Takes on Android

nfarina:

Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.

We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.

We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling Intents, closing old Activities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.

Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.

So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.

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“America Looks at It’s neighbours” - 1932, American political Cartoon

Oh, America. How the tables have turned. 

Bill Maher on UK Conservatives

It is nice to get a bit of perspective on our government troubles here in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Yes, I used it’s full name. Just thought it would be nice, we don’t hear people using it’s full name often.

Postcards from the abyss