John Gruber Is A Funny Funny Guy
So I read daring fireball by John Gruber and enjoy the little snide comments about the current tech item of the minute. So the current news item is the new photos of this previously unphotographed tribe living in the amazon.
John's Comment:
Someone needs to let these people know about the upcoming new iPhone.
Funny funny shit. Nice to see that he can recognize the frivolity of the same industry that he works in. Good job.
If I knew then what I know now….
Getting all my tax stuff together and over to my accountant and I was reviewing everything. Being that my father is a CPA he sold some of my apple stock off this year to diversify my IRA a bit.
I bought Apple stock on 10/24/2000 at $10.44/share. I sold it this year at $190.28/share. Nice.
Now if I had only bought more than the few shares I did, as I bought under 100 shares. Oh well.
Apple Fingered Me
So I have had this iPhone for a little while now, and I have gotten pretty used to it.
I also have had this MacBook for a while now.
On the MacBook, you can use 2 fingers on the track pad to scroll. Obviously, 2 fingers going down on the trackpad scrolls down. Two fingers up scrolls up. Amazing. I use it all the time. Love it.
Recently though, I have noticed myself thinking 'lets scroll down' and my fingers 2 finger scroll up. My mind says 'wth' and my fingers do it right. You know how it is, it happens quickly and you you think nothing of it. It just now dawned on my it is a result of the fact that the MacBook and the iPhone do OPPOSITE motions for scrolling.
It is kinda frustrating. Opposite paradigms for the same thing. Both make sense.
twitter thoughts
so I have a few people that follow me on twitter. I know who they are. It is fine. Every once in a while, I will be notified that a new person is following me... and I am all wth? who? So I go check... only to realize it is basically spam. That is kinda lame. The most recent one was for a conference that I won't be attending. So it could be considered targeted I guess... but the conference could be targeted to anyone using twitter as a communication tool if you want to step far enough back.
I also have people following me... and I don't know who they are or what their angle is. One of them appears to be a journalist angle... like following people will be a 'finger on the pulse' of the scene or something. My tweets are rarely that topical, but there are obviously some people who have such content that would be worth following. Seems fine by me, but it also seems there would be better ways than monitoring a bunch of random peoples' tweets, but hey, what do I know.
I am still not sure how I feel about twitter. On one hand, it is nice enough to keep tabs on people. Obviously some people have a higher signal to noise ratio than others, and that will certainly vary from user to user. I feel like I have enough going on. Enough RSS feeds, todo lists, emails, IMs, etc to keep an eye on. I am looking to reduce the inflow of information while still trying to keep up to date with things. And that is one of the great things about twitter, it forces a small form factor. And that very form factor that makes it nice encourages people to post things they wouldn't post to a blog since it isn't often very important. Obviously controls are in place to limit the flow and how it reaches me, which is great.
But sometimes I wonder if I care enough. Currently, I am sticking with it.