They’re conveying how you’ll feel if you use the product.

“But there’s the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash. If they have a sentimental bond with the product.“

It’s As If Apple Has Hired Don Draper

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Sat, 24 Jul 2010

Exceptions for: Absolutely Noone

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 22 Jul 2010

I Recommend Querious

I finally bought a copy of Querious by the wonderful folks over at Araelium Group I’ve been using it more and more in my web development workflow and once I have time I’ll try and sit down and do a proper review. Until then, if you need a decent app for administering/developing on a MySQL5 Server, I can’t speak more highly of this product.

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Mon, 12 Jul 2010

Peeves: NetNewsWire

Whenever I sit down to read some news from my RSS feeds I tend to be horribly frustrated. On the go I use Reeder for iPhone and couldn’t be happier with it. However on my computer I use NetNewsWire, and this is becoming a problem. NetNewsWire works in many the same ways as your default web browser except that it has syncing integration with Google Reader. What I find particularly annoying is that there is no way to keep your queued articles (here implemented as tabs) in sync between two computers in a way that isn’t incredibly hacky. (Though I’m getting desperate enough that I may find myself making a rat’s nest of symlinks to make this annoyance go away.) I’ll sit down at my desktop computer and blow through the morning unread items; opening interesting articles for later. When I actually manage to score some downtime, I’m usually on the go with either my MBP or iPhone. I don’t expect my iPhone to keep all my articles open, that’d be way too much to ask. But when I use the same client on both machines and it doesn’t even sync the flagged items properly, theres a bit of an issue. That’s my two cents. If I get fed up enough to fix it I’ll do a follow up post.

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Mon, 12 Jul 2010

Thought of the day.

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 1 Jul 2010

Another Amazing TED Talk

Dan Dennett on our consciousness

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 25 Jun 2010

Watching this now.

Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 25 Jun 2010