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Author Archives: Erik


Powerset is scary

I just ran a vanity search on Powerset…

How did they know?!?

Joy Division branded Zune

I have to hand it to their design team, it looks a lot better than the U2 iPod. Also, with only 500 units being produced, it might be the first Zune model to sell out!
Via Pitchfork

Browser history as a tree

I’ve been meaning to do something along these lines for ages.. still strikes me as an excellent Firefox plug-in. Trying to track down a poorly titled page you visited a couple of days ago is usually quite a pain, and seeing a clear path from where you began could be a great help with this. [...]

KPCB site down

I noticed KPCB’s site has been down for a couple of hours this afternoon. Could this be an indication of the volume of interest in their $100m investment fund for iPhone applications?
As for my own interest, let’s just say that yesterday I finally broke down and bought the Macbook Pro I had been debating for [...]

Title / Position ?

I decided to register a business for my contract work. I’m filling out this form (pdf), and it asks for my “Title / Position”.
This is obviously an extremely important question that I hadn’t given enough consideration.. what should my title be in my sole proprietorship? I’ve always liked the image conjured by “Czar”, but it [...]

WANT

The colors are for NAVIGATING A SPACE SHIP.
I just had a geekgasm.
(via boing boing)

The wisdom of indecision

When I don’t take a decision, it’s not that I don’t think about it. I think about it and take a decision not to take a decision.
- P. V. Narasimha Rao
See, if I hadn’t waffled for so long about purchasing an iphone I would be kicking myself now.

Speaking of themes..

I’ll admit, it’s tempting:

http://retromactheme.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/?p=4

Now that I’ve listed this domain on my moocards, I suppose I ought to use it. It has essentially been dormant since being registered in December 06, mostly because I wanted to create an exceptionally cool WordPress theme first. As you can see, I still haven’t gotten around to that. Give me a break, I’m [...]