We are Apple and you are Suckers!

Quasicrystal!

Source of the above animation

Wikipedia on Quasicrystals

Just Started Using KompoZer

Just needed something to do some simple editing on an existing html page. I would typically have used Dreamweaver. But, having booted in the Ubuntu Linux environment, I looked for an alternative. Quanta Plus 3.5 looked promising but it wasn't in my Ubuntu Software Centre, so I downloaded KompoZer instead. It seemed to have similar features.

I haven't really tested it of course. Just that one job. So far so good. I preferred at least one of  KompoZer's split coding/design features better than Dreamweaver's. Hopefully, as I keep using it, it will keep on making as good an impression.

Elegant Complexity - Fractal

Elegant Simplicity - Geometry

Android Vs iOS The Truth about Apple and Google's OS Part 1 of 5

25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" | Tech Drive-in

25 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" | Tech Drive-in

Review: Linux Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 precise Pangolin

It took me about a decade to muster-up the courage to finally install a Linux Operating system.

I had been terrified that nothing would work ... not my wireless connection, not my blue-tooth mouse, not the multiple languages/spell-checks I use etc.

Nonetheless, I recently dual-installed Ubuntu 12.04 precise Pangolin by Canonical (Ubuntu is a Linux "distribution" based on the Debian Project's operating system) on a VAIO laptop with Windows pre-installed.

And everything worked ... made more sense, was more accessible and customisable ... and was generally brilliant!

I never booted Windows again since.

On the decision to pull i-Google.

Was Google too good to be true? You could take everything they did, one by one, and they did it better than anybody else. It was the company with everything right about it. It was the company every company either wanted to be like or ought to want to be like. :)
Now, in another one of a recent series of idiotic moves (Have you seen the Android market "Play" lately?), Google is now retiring i-Google, something people (meaning "I") like, spent time customising and find useful.

Why are they pulling the plug? Well ... I don't know. But it does fit with the strategic decision to push Google+ on people ... whether they want to or not.

Problem is: i-Google is brilliant. Google+ is crap. So WTF?

It's too bad. Stupidity is infectious in a company culture. And the fish starts to stink from the head. In any case, I'm switching to NetVibes.

PS) Google announced earlier this year that it would be "streamlining" the privacy agreements for all of its products (including YouTube, Blogger and Gmail). The streamlining makes using Google something EU officials described as "too invasive". Feels like the new motto at Google might soon be altered to become: "The legal department has advised us that, technically, to be an asshole is not exactly the same as being evil"!

PPS) BBC Aricle: "Is it possible to quit Google?"

Dorothy Donegan!!!

Samsara Trailer (Documentary 2012)

Android Vs iOS The Truth about Apple and Google's OS Part 1

Ben Franklin on Patents:

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

Seeking Perfection in Everything

A man in the USA who thinks like a European

Samsung Flexible AMOLED Display at CES 2011