Month: October 2011

SGS2 Visits Samsung Service Centre

October 26, 2011January 29, 2012  |  Technology  |  My Samsung Galaxy S II had a problem with its display: there was a yellowish tinted circular spot, roughly the size of a 5-cent coin, near the lower left edge of the screen. The spot had probably been there since the beginning, ...

The iPhone 4S

October 11, 2011October 11, 2011  |  Miscellaneous  |  I was going to write something to diss the new iPhone 4S. But the legendary visionary behind the iPhone passed on, and I think we should take the moment, instead, to pay tribute to the man who has changed the face of computing, ...

Ian Goes to School

October 5, 2011December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Ian has started going to school today. It’s the same child care centre that Vanessa attends. He arrived at the centre, loitered around the common area with Vanessa for a while, then was introduced to his classroom. He ...

Repairing Lion

October 4, 2011October 4, 2011  |  Technology  |  Much as I enjoy working with Mac OS X, and think it is so much more fun than Windows XP, Vista, or 7, there are some issues with it that I’m having. The chief problem is that, from time to time, my MacBook Pro (MBP) does ...

Do Programmers Need to Understand the Underlying Platform?

October 1, 2011May 29, 2024  |  Technology  |  This topic came up for discussion recently. How much of the underlying technology (such as network, server, operating system, etc) does a programmer need to know in order to write good programs? A colleague held the belief that, ...