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Search, indexing, and automated relevance is hard. It's often not worth the effort to shoot at better and miss.
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Search, indexing, and automated relevance is hard. It's often not worth the effort to shoot at better and miss.
Part of what to like about Android is the development community — how people are doing out as much for fun as for profit.
One of my favorite music players, cubed, has all sorts of interesting browsing abilities, but most off them are dependent on album art. The developer is flat-out against simple lists off music that you click through. His fans finally convinced him to add a list-driven menu. He named this theme Boring.
If you don't find that funny, then android might not be for you.
Ghostery is a wonderful cross-browser extension that lets you know what technology a website is communicating with. For luddites, it's paranoid security; for tech geeks like me, it's a peek into what a website is doing to generate the reports they use to make business decisions.
And other times, it's evidence that people want lots and lots and lots of graphs available to them.
Boston is in the middle of its nth big snowstorm of this winter. I'm flying Delta tomorrow, had heard that many flights have been cancelled, and thought I'd check delta.com so that tomorrow morning I wasn't fumbling around. I'm glad I did.
I own an android phone, and love it. I'm a geek, I know it's geeky, and I don't have to worry about what the average user thinks or wants. It was made for me.
I also read about how some iPhone developers have a hard time because Apple keeps their garden tended, and gardening takes time and effort. Meanwhile, I'm glad that LevelUp studio can just update his incredible Plume twitter app as often as he wants–which is often, because he's aggressively trying to be the best at what he does.
Having said that, it's also good to laugh at the weeds that appear in the android market:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/the-handwarmer/com.handwarmer
I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't see such an app in the iPhone store. Unless the goal was to sell more hardware.
Reading is my primary pastime. There's a natural inclination to think that if you don't read books that you don't like reading. Books are great, but reading isn't all about books.
When I want to learn about current web technology and design? Websites and web-derived authors: Smashing Magazine. A List Apart. Net Tuts. A Book Apart.
Current events apart from the day-to-day headlines? Atlantic Magazine.
When I have to give a big presentation at work? Books. I purchase and read Confessions of a Public Speaker. (Great book!)
Games. Movies. Relationships. Parenting. Economics. Finances. Politics. Philosophy. Career. Programming. Fitness. Design. Gardening.
Books. Blogs. Forums. Websites. Twitter. Magazines. Op-eds. Essays. The Boston Metro that someone just put down in the Red Line.
And that doesn't count undirected reading of the random and interesting corners of the internet.
And then to relax? Fiction.
All reading. Read, read, read.
Scalzi is a real writer.
This is a review of the books Old Man's War, Ghost Brigade, Last Colony, and Zoe's Tale, all by John Scalzi. There isn't an official name of the series, but people refer to it as the Old Man series.
I guess I'm a tourist science fiction reader, in that I still care about things like characterization and plot. I can certainly enjoy explosions and melodrama, and big ideas about the human condition are always welcome, but sometimes I want to sit down with a real meal. I want it all. For me, this series is a full, enjoyable meal.