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File: April 2008

catching up with Cocoa mailing lists after a Mac-less weekend. Lots of newbies (including me) but seems a friendly bunch # just found out Twinkle is venture-funded, hmmm # talk about a dearth of relevant news… # sleeping tip: set your alarm the same 7 days a week, even if you sleep in on weekends. [...]

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Usually, internet fads come and go but the ones that last usually come in waves.  Facebook had a big wave and then another when they released the platform.  The iPhone set off shock waves and will probably see another resurgence when they wifi App store goes live (if there are any interesting ideas left by [...]

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Working on Parking Lot puzzle #34 on the Touch # Love the Twinkle interface but it’s still not THE twitter iPhone client # Solved all 40 puzzles of parkinglot!!! # Did the weekly battle of the bulge routine at the local gym # The iPhone YouTube app has to be the most useless app on [...]

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I think it’s more or less an open secret that to get value for money spent on Adsense ads you need to have good SEO skills or be some kind of a professional spammer.  I guess all is well right now as Google is pretty much the betting table like a Las Vegas casino, they’re [...]

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@defunkt you should just give existing members invites to hand out and close registration again # MacBook went to the farm, now all I have is its mini-me (Touch) to keep me company # I should be studying cocoa, instead I’ll watch Lost # Just saw the infamous polar bear episode # Kicked mac withdrawal [...]

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forgot my iPod and my cell phone! (yeah, I’m in Japan, otherwise they might be one…) # wow, now I’m getting press releases via my contact form. # my mind’s shutdown # I always regret peeking at wikipedia for favorite TV shows I’m behind on… # I’ve been tired and sleepy all this week #

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Dead tired but enjoying Lost # I wonder how many SNS apps are currently being developed on the iPhone SDK #

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time for work. Finally got some rest last night. # Using Alpine (pine’s successor) to read Gmail really, truly rocks. # google’s GData API is wonderful but the lack of a Reader API is like an elephant in the living room # looks like I’ll be signing up for Giganews.com again… # I love enterprise [...]

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I don’t know how to express the mild disappointment of finding out that the OpenSocial API, despite its alluring name, is anything but.  Why couldn’t they name it the OpenWidget API or UniversalSocialWidget API or something less misleading.  OpenSocial sound so much like a common API interface for web services that third-party developers can take [...]

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If you stare at unfamiliar syntax long enough… # so little time to study… # Lovely, finally a good twitter iPod touch app # Tragedy with cjk fonts though… #

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