How about, every time you need to look up a word’s meaning — or you simply look upon a word and think it over — you also see how it’s been defined over at thebigwordproject? The in-depth definition might be coming from the less expected source, right?

I think of it as finding new ideas, peeking at people’s thoughts. Some will be more attractive than others, I’m sure, but I expect a higher than 2% ROI rate on this¹. It is only a question of doing it as often as I’d like, but for that I have technology. So I will find a way.

1. 2% is reported to be a good response for spam and scam e-mails. Interesting thing to compare to, right? [↩]

I’m seeing a lot of comments about Apple’s decision to silently install Safari on Windows as an update to iTunes. The move has been declared as almost malware-like, considering the practice. And this hurts Apple more than they realise.

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A few interesting titbits from today’s news - Apple, GPL, JP Morgan controversies, beer is the secret to success.

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Joel Spolsky (the famous Joel writing “on software”) had a lengthy comment today yesterday on the impending war between the supporters of IE 8’s standards mode versus the rest of the world (as he argues it, that means the majority of web developers out there) that will have their websites broken in IE 8. (Mark Pilgrim hosts a translation of the article which pretty much captures the essence of the thing.) While he makes a compelling argument as to why he believes IE 8 will eventually revert to the old way of rendering, I take issue with some of the finer points of the matter. Specifically, I believe, for once, that Microsoft is not the only one to blame for the current state of the web and they should not backtrack because it might be a cause of inconvenience to some people in the short term.

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‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You’re a slave to money then you die

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Anya is considering, today, the matter of fairness. The fairness of incomes where they are not based in the education required to get to a certain position, but some other, should-be-unimportant factors. And, I would venture a guess, the fairness with which our respect hierarchies are built.

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I enjoy podcasts. I seek the more technologically-oriented ones because, hey, I have some idea about what they’re talking, but there’s always room for improvement. I was sad when Binary Revolution Radio stopped broadcasting, but I focused on other things. I have listened/watched to TWiT & Co., CommandN, Digital Underground, Hak5, SECTHIS. Some of these I still follow. Others, not so much. Even if nobody is perfect, it’s hard to ignore some of the pretty big errors in reporting I came across while listening to some of these.

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Some sense, finally…