By Scott February 7th, 2010, under iPad
The tech press looked like real idiots recently.
The usual Apple-watchers got wind that there was a new product in the pipeline, which is pretty much what they sit waiting for. And as is their wont, they started speculating about what the new device would be. What size is it, what hardware spec is it, et cetera, et cetera.
The speculation reached insane levels in the build-up to the day of the announcement, with everyone seemingly getting caught up in it. Some of the outlandish claims made for this new device were actually hilarious, and some were probably not even physically possible.
And then came the announcement.
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By Scott February 7th, 2010, under General
There is a debate going on at the moment about Flash. This is a debate that has only really started heating up since Apple announced the iPad and stated that neither it nor the iPhone (and iPod Touch) would be running Flash any time soon.
Adobe countered this very public dismissal of their software by saying that Apple would be denying users of the iPhone/iPad the ability to view ‘most of’ the internet.
I can understand why Adobe would be put out by Apple’s refusal to support their technology, on the back of which they sell their own products, and I can also understand why Apple does not want to support Flash on the iPhone OS (for want of a better name – what else should we call it, MacOS Mobile?).
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By Scott February 6th, 2010, under General
Background
So … I had the same basic layout for my website for the last eight years. It was getting a little boring.
I have been using computers since 1979, and writing my own software out of interest since 1980. My first job started in March 1987 with RCP (later RCP Consultants), and I stayed there until the end of February 2004.
At RCP we got a dial-up UUCP connection to the internet in 1993, and used it to do batch downloads of USENET and email several times a day. I wrote my first personal website in 1996, and it got its own domain name (this one) in 2001.
So you can say that I have a fair bit of experience with computers and with the internet.
And here we are in 2010. Frankly, it’s astonishing that my own website has hardly changed at all in eight years.
New Look
Really, I wanted a blog. Somewhere I could post my rants so they could be ignored by a much wider audience.
After trying to install one as a sub-page to the main website, and running into what can best be described as ‘technical issues’, I decided to replace the previous site completely … with a blog!
Feel free to comment on anything you see in here.
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