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Please don’t buy this
Wow, Android Police went to town on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 The overall impression I get from this is arrogance. “We’re Samsung. You slobs will buy anything we crap out. We don’t have to try, we don’t even need the latest components. You’ll buy it no matter what.” Scathing! I giggle with pleasure to see one of the better Android sites blast something from Samsung. What about this review by The Verge?
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Kill your darlings
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings” — Stephen King, “On Writing”
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A merging of personalities
During my 2 year hiatus from writing this site (formerly bwh.me), I started another blog where I actually produced a decent amount of content. I love technology and I wanted to try my hand at covering the news that interested me. Superfunti.me became my personal soapbox for sounding off about technology news but it followed a rather cookie cutter approach. I tried to be John Gruber which is a rather popular thing to try these days.
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Aaron Draplin loves notebooks
I could watch this over and over, his passion for these old notebooks is inspiring. vimeo
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How time flies
Occasionally I enjoy a trip down memory lane and reading old blog posts will definitely take you there. Often times the things I’ve written sound so different from the person I am now that I wonder if it was truly me who penned them. I’ve started many blogs for many different reasons; I’ve dedicated them to the subject of cars, guns, pens, and a technology. Most of the time I end up hating what I wrote or just getting bored with the subject.
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Two years
I think that’s a record.
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Fountain pen sales on the rise
Stephen Bayley for The Telegraph Few things are more exciting than to hear a woman breathlessly say: “You have lovely handwriting.” But you are unlikely to hear this if you write with a cheap ballpoint and its viscous, blobby ink. For gratification of this sort, a fountain pen is required. And the written trail it must leave is, for best effect, a dense black water‑based ink. I’m not surprised, they’re a lot of fun.
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How Jenna Wortham writes.
The Atlantic Wire has a great interview with NYT tech reporter Jenna Wortham. Interesting to see how she structures her day and all the ways she gets her news. So much time spent on the internet, too many days like this would destroy my attention span which is already pretty short.
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Samsung the heart breaker
Vlad Savov writing for The Verge: “How Samsung broke my heart” But the Korean leopard hadn’t changed its spots. We were just riding the crest of its massive technological advantage, there was no change in philosophy. In simple terms, Samsung was still Samsung, only its products happened to be awesome enough to be desirable in their own right. The signs of this were all there, in the shadowy expanse between its glamorous product launches.
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Let’s get more ice cream sandwiches!
This time last month Android 4.0 was on 2.9% of devices, now it’s on 4.9%. Slowly gaining ground. I have no idea if 2% growth in a month is good or bad but at least more phones have ICS on them now. Hopefully they’re not all hiding behind Samsung’s dreadful Touchwiz. Source: Android Developers