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oil companies love mondays

It’s been a million years since my last post. Standard excuses apply: day job has taken over my life. I am working on a technical post so expect that in the next few days. In the mean time, here’s an image that has come to define this crappy week: Only an oil company can make [...]

Posted 28 April 2011 † Philip § Rant ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged:

Great Jargon LOL

Something I do in my day job a lot is read. I read tons of documents from peer reviewed publications, a bit less from periodicals like IEEE S&P, ACM Communications etc, and finally I get sucked into reading some vendor white papers / marketing crap. The density and value of the information in these documents [...]

Posted 12 March 2011 † Philip § Rant ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Barnes and Noble Customer Disservice

Even though I’ve got an ebook reader I’m still on the look-out for a new one since the technology is moving so fast and new features seem to hit the market regularly. There’s no way I’m buying a Kindle because they don’t support the ePub format and that’s what the local library is using. I [...]

Posted 09 January 2011 † Philip § Rant ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Nokia N97 v20 firmware update requires Windows

Rant alert! I was so pumped for this new firmware. Anything that makes my phone run better is a good thing. It’s even better when I can actually install it though! What the crap?!?! That’s right I can’t install it. Nokia is only distributing it initially for installation through their software updater that’s tied to [...]

Posted 29 October 2009 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,