~(b[oris]log)

a web log of Boris' online traversals.
July 24
hotdogsladies: I've started randomly telling people to "Put it on the wiki." Without any context or reason. Making it my dada "Talk to the hand."
July 23
hotdogsladies: If I'd had Drupal 5 in 1996, all you people would be working for ME now. (grumble stupid progress everybody gets for free grumble)
July 22
“ Apple shouldn’t have had the iPhone 3G launch, the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade, the App Store launch and the transition from .Mac to MobileMe all on the one weekend […] Apple’s MobileMe meltdown - iPhone Insider - Digital Life - smh.com.au
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How to Get Broke by Buying an iPhone
July 21
Dramatic Lemur (via lexxor85)
July 15
“ The iPhone 3G’s [web] browser, Safari, is an HTML browser - Vodafone Live operates on a PML browser, which isn’t compatible with the HTML browser,” Vodafone spokesman Greg Spears said.

iPhone not so multimedia friendly

Gee Vodafone, who’d a thunk that going with a proprietary markup document format would’ve been such a bad idea?  Clue(phone companies) = 0.
July 10
gruber: Hunter S. Thompson would have been good on Twitter.
July 9
Skitch.com > borg000 > ADSL Firewall Router This is the sort of performance all ADSL providers should be selling - hoping I can keep somewhat stable connection with something approaching these numbers.  So far so good (for one hour anyway).

Skitch.com > borg000 > ADSL Firewall Router

This is the sort of performance all ADSL providers should be selling - hoping I can keep somewhat stable connection with something approaching these numbers.  So far so good (for one hour anyway).

July 8
AinsleyofAttack: My unnecessary aggression, ineptitude, and general misdirection have led me to conclude that I'm a Republican when I ride my bike.
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Ira Glass on Storytelling #3 (via kentj1)

(Woody Allen) … sorry … Ira Glass gives revealing insight to why you should often stick to your guns when you suck at what you do, but can _tell_ that you suck.

July 7
“ One thing that got us into the Iraq war was that George Bush didn’t realise Saddam Hussein was bluffing, trying to look like a big man, when he really had no weapons of mass destruction. Poker players deal Obama a full house - World - smh.com.au
July 6
mpesce: Douglas Rushkoff's morning keynote at PdF: http://blip.tv/file/1047324 - so good they *changed* the name of the conference afterward.
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(via PdF2008 Talks: Doug Rushkoff on the New Renaissance)
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Bush heckled 4th of July “Fuck You” (via CanadianVandal)
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garthk: Told the wife the barista had warned me eating GM food could change your genes. "Of course not," said the wife: "Only Jesus can do that."