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Marco, on whether the e-reader is “doomed” or not

January 5, 2012 Posted in Books, gadgets, Kindle, Observations, Quotes by

Marco Arment has a good response to Matt Alexander’s suggestion that the e-reader is already dead. Most telling for me was what I thought Marco was going to say in his last paragraph. I think it could equally well read: ‘I don’t think the e-reader is “doomed” at all. It may just be relegated to […]


Merlin Mann on Time and Attention

August 2, 2010 Posted in Productivity, Quotes by

I feel like a doctor… and I feel like periodically I get this stream of people who are almost dead from a brain tumour the size of a volleyball, and they mainly want me to find out where they can get bigger hats. And with all of my might, I try to say to them: […]


Funny Characters

July 22, 2010 Posted in Geekery, Quotes by

I’m just reading Joel Spolksy’s excellent 2003 article on Unicode and character sets, I think for the first time. If you’re a programmer and have the least bit of doubt about character encodings, I’d go read it now, if I were you. Not least because it’s so damn well written. The IBM-PC had something that […]


Ihnatko (That’s easy for _you_ to say…)

May 17, 2008 Posted in Quotes by

Added Andy Ihnatko quote to Quotes Page


Quotes and adverts and recommendations

December 30, 2007 Posted in Quotes by

Added a Jeff Atwood quote, put Nozbe links in the sidebar, dropped the Skype Me link that nobody ever used, and added Spanning Sync to the list of applications.


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