I ran into a post on the Vanity Fair website called "Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?" which asks the question whether the Vanity Fair editors should deviate from regular spelling of strange-looking words and names. Unfortunately, most of the commenters on this post can't seem to take this topic very seriously. That's a shame, because people learning English waste a decade of their lives learning the truly bizarre spelling of that language.
Read the article - posted 2012-01-14
The past week there's been a lot of blog talk about an iPhone going off during a performance of the New York Philharmonic. Apparently someone had just had his Blackberry replaced with an iPhone, and when the iPhone alarm went off despite the "ringer/silent" switch set to silent, the poor new iPhone user first of all didn't notice it was his phone interrupting the performance at first, and then had a hard time killing the alarm.
This week, I installed a new battery in my fifth generation iPod.
Read the article - posted 2012-03-11
Image link - posted 2012-03-27
Apple's ruthless simplification left Mountain Lion skinnier than we'd like.
Read the article - posted 2012-08-10
Image link - posted 2012-08-27