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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 Tags:

Exceptions for: Absolutely Noone

Posted by: Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 22 Jul 2010 Tags:

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 Tags:

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 Tags:

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 Tags:

Another Amazing TED Talk

Dan Dennett on our consciousness

Posted by: Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 Tags:

Watching this now.

Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

Posted by: Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 Tags:

I'm hooked on Clockwords

If you're bored, love word games, and have a decent vocabulary, you'll love this game. Seriously try it.

Posted by: Nathaniel Bannister on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 Tags:

I think I fixed all the missing Metadata

Not sure what happened to all of it, but it’s back now.

Posted by: Nathaniel Bannister on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 Tags: SEO

Macports to Rudix

Rudix 2010

I've decided to try switching from MacPorts to Rudix. Most if not all of the packages I install via MacPorts are available as binaries via Rudix. It saves me having to compile them with the stock options. So far I really can't see a reason not to do it.

Posted by: Nathaniel Bannister on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 Tags: Open Source