Many months ago I signed up for the Kindle Developer’s Kit beta program and got in. I loved my Kindle, and the thought of writing applications for it just got me all excited. The process of developing a Kindle application has been quite a ride. The Java API (Kindle Development Kit) is a bit disappointing. It contains very little in
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It was a controversial theory for decades, but now there is definitive proof - humans are part Neaderthal! Up to 4% of the human genome is Neanderthal. (See New York Times article) Humans and Neanderthals broke off from our common ancestor about 600,000 years ago. Neanderthals had bigger brains, so I guess they were a little more adventurous. They headed
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I love Ubuntu. It is my main operating system at home – all our computers run Ubuntu, except for the one my daughter uses to play Spore. That machine dual-boots between Windows and Ubuntu. I have watched the operating system improve steadily over the years, but was really disappointed with 9.10. Things that worked flawlessly on 9.04 and 8.x (like
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My company purchased two iPads on Monday – the day it was released. We provide cutting-edge, extremely creative web sites and mobile applications for our clients, including mcommerce and ecommerce on a global scale. My colleagues and were eager to play with the device and evaluate it for practical purposes, to look at how our current sites look/behave, what worked,
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We live in interesting times. Could we actually be at a point were America will actually join the rest of the developed nations in having affordable, accessible healthcare for her citizens? What I find disgusting about this whole healthcare debate is not how blatant politicians are becoming in their complete disregard for the good of the people – it’s not
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