April 2010

The telephone is an aberration

“The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk [...]

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Instapaper Pro Update for iPhone and iPad

As a huge Instapaper fan, I was quite happy to see the latest Instapaper Pro update (version 2.2.3 if you keep track of that sort of thing.) While most of the actual updates lie in the iPad version, the big deal for me was iPhone OS 3.0 compatibility. See, as a jailbreak fan, I’m still [...]

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A Reminder to Sleep

In my Google Reader account today I spotted this gem: Get Some Sleep! by Randy Murray. A quick excerpt: Sleep is one of the great joys of life. And sleep deprivation is used as a torture technique, a way of programming inductees in cults. Why would you torture yourself, diminish your mental capacities and do [...]

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Apple MacBook Pro Update

Just as the world was about to run out of patience, Apple updated it’s line of MacBook Pro notebook computers. There are brand new CPU’s, more gigabytes, more gigahertz, fancy graphics cards, you name it. The base ($1799) 15″ Macbook Pro now sports a 2.4 GHZ Intel Core i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a [...]

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Schedules don’t jive with Simplicity

Way back in the early days of Simple Llama, I created a hard-set schedule. Every Monday and Thursday I was to publish a shiny, brand new article. For quite awhile, that schedule worked perfectly. In fact, I was often ahead of things, and had a full queue of posts waiting to be published. There came [...]

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Simple Links

I haven’t done this here before, but I’m going to try to put up a couple inspiring links that Simple Llama readers may find interesting.  Maybe you’ve already read a few, and maybe some are new.  Anyway, here’s a couple that caught my eye in the last few days. Everett Bogue wrote “15 BITS OF [...]

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