May 2009
3 posts
Talk of swine flu might have been hysterical, but... →
To which the correct response should be: So what? Before “that panic was ridiculous” becomes the conventional wisdom, let’s be frank about it: Where infectious diseases are concerned, panic is good. Panic is what we want. Without panic, nothing happens. Up to 500 million people will get malaria this year, and more than 1 million of them will die, mostly in very poor countries....
For those as annoyed by GNU inconsistencies as me
If ‘find’ throws “unknown predicate `-regexptype’” at you, it’s because it’s -regextype. Do ignore that the regexp argument is -regexp. Might escape you, as it did me, if you’re very very tired.
aTumble for Android ($0.99) "review"
My thoughts: It looks like it does whatever it’s supposed to do, but its features seem meager. No post editing, no hooks into Android, and the post screen layout is slightly messed up on Cupcake. Right now there’s little benefit above Pingdroid and its smooth tumblr/twitter/facebook/gazillion other services combination. A separate tumblr app only makes sense if it has smooth Tumblr...
