October 2011
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My earlier post about Dennis Ritchie has been updated to include a few links I found since posting it originally.
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Darker Lines →
Stephanie at Rhodia Drive:
Every now and again we receive a letter asking whether or not the
signature Rhodia violet lines have become darker. Rob Morrison sent us
the photo above and said that the seemingly darker lines “really
disguise the writing.”
The lines on the new pads do appear darker because Rhodia is now using
a 100% natural ink as opposed to a chemical one.
Little...
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Dennis Ritchie, Grandfather of Your iPhone
Dennis Ritchie died Saturday just past. He isn’t as famous as Steve Jobs, but his work has ended up in just as many hands. He didn’t invent the iPhone, or the Mac, or the iPad, but as the man who created the C programming language, and one of men responsible for the creation of Unix, his contribution to these devices is almost as big as Steve’s.
His work, ten years before the first Mac was even...
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Goodbye, MobileMe →
I won’t miss iDisk (Dropbox always did it better1), but I will miss the Keychain, Dock items, and Mail settings syncing.
I imagine it’s safe to say that they weren’t wildly popular, but they were extremely useful. Need to use another Mac for a while? Create an account, punch in your MobileMe user and pass, and voilà!, it’s almost your Mac.
You can quickly and painlessly install all your (App...
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Steve Jobs
Larry Ellison in an interview with CNN Money1:
I remember when Steve was my neighbor in Woodside, California, and he had no furniture. It struck me that there wasn’t furniture good enough for Steve in the world. He’d rather have nothing if he couldn’t have perfection.
And I jokingly said, “The difference between me and Steve is that I’m willing to live with the best the world can provide....