Quote of the Day:
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg.
And
Everyone’s life is similar, an accumulation of chances and random occurrences producing outcomes no-one expected. Which explanation of events is true?
Tom Stoppard’s,
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.
or Shakespeare’s?
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Faith suggests Shakespeare has got it right; free will means Stoppard has to be true.
I had planned on keeping my iPhone 4 as long as I could.
I was an original Siemens Mannesmann D2 and then Vodafon user. Once I got my iPhone however I never used my Siemens "Knochen" again. Literally. Never used it again.
Until last week I still used the iPhone 4 but it has become very slow and quite unreliable. And I must use iTunes to get new stuff onto the phone, and that's even worse.
So for some time I have believed that Apple could be replaced, for me, by a phone that was somewhat elegant, hardware-wise, and had software that was as easy and reliable as it should be, 8 years after the iPhone was first introduced. You expect a certain amount of bugginess at the outset, but over time the glitches should be out and the product should become part of the background, the focus being on what you use the product for. The iPhone resists that. Every time they come out with a new version of iTunes or iOS it works differently and I have to find a new set of workarounds.
Please just give me a device that's reasonably nice and Just Works. And for father's day, Stephen did. As a long time AWS user, it just had to come from Amazon:
