From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Official Google Mac Blog: Google goes to MacExpo UK

October 24, 2006

Link: Official Google Mac Blog: Google goes to MacExpo UK. As a Mac fanatic for over fourteen years, I was thrilled to find my first job here at Google UK would be working on Google’s presence at this year’s London MacExpo UK.

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Apple, Security, and Trust | securosis.com

October 19, 2006

Link: Apple, Security, and Trust | securosis.com. The iPod virus infections shows a lack of capability (security QA in shipping products) and poor communications (failure to take full responsibility). It’s a very small problem, but their arrogant approach to spinning the story lead me to question how they might respond to more serious issues. We [...]

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Perspective

October 18, 2006

The population of the US has, according to projections by the US Census Bureau, just hit 300 million. In 1986, it was about 240 million. That means that, in 20 years, the US’ population has grown by the size of the entire population of the UK (60 million).

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No Dave, that’s not what a reporter does

October 17, 2006

Link: Scripting News: 10/17/2006. But they understood something that most reporters and their supporters don’t understand — the readers didn’t have a choice just a few years ago, but now we do, we can go direct to their sources, to their blogs, to find out what they think, we don’t need the reporter to assemble [...]

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Just who is Stephen Russell?

October 12, 2006

A while ago, a small controversy over Apple’s environmental record took over the Mac blogs for a bit, after a Greenpeace report highlighted the use of toxic chemicals in the company’s products. I’m not a supporter of Greenpeace: I tend to be on the opposite end of the spectrum of opinion to it in many [...]

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Blogging Lite

October 11, 2006

It’s two weeks since I last blogged, which is probably about the longest hiatus that I’ve had since I first started writing online. There’s been no particular reason for not blogging, but rather a combination of things that have kept me away from the Typepad and in the "real" world. First of all, things have [...]

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