Pigeon (C&H Short)

The Exceptional Exception

Alan Grayson is brilliant. More politicians like him please, in all parts of the world.

The iPhone Phenomenon

Bye bye Mono

I've gone sour on Mono, so decided, now I'd settled on a music player other than Banshee, to get rid of it:

Removed:
  mono-core.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                                  

Dependency Removed:
  avahi-sharp.i586 0:0.6.25-3.fc11                                              
  banshee.i586 0:1.4.3-3.fc11                                                   
  banshee-musicbrainz.i586 0:1.4.3-3.fc11                                       
  boo.i586 0:0.8.1.2865-6.fc11                                                  
  gnome-sharp.i586 0:2.24.0-3.fc11                                              
  gtk-sharp2.i586 0:2.12.7-4.fc11                                               
  log4net.i586 0:1.2.10-5.fc11                                                  
  mono-addins.i586 0:0.4-6.20091702svn127062.1.fc11                             
  mono-data.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                                  
  mono-data-sqlite.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                           
  mono-extras.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                                
  mono-ndoc.i586 0:1.3.1-4.fc11                                                 
  mono-nunit22.i586 1:2.2.10-9.fc11                                             
  mono-sharpcvslib.i586 0:0.35-9.fc11                                           
  mono-web.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                                   
  mono-winforms.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                              
  mono-zeroconf.i586 0:0.7.6-8.fc11                                             
  monodoc.i586 0:2.4-19.fc11                                                    
  nant.i586 1:0.85-27.fc11                                                      
  ndesk-dbus.i586 0:0.6.1a-4.fc11                                               
  ndesk-dbus-glib.i586 0:0.4.1-4.fc11                                           
  notify-sharp.i586 0:0.4.0-0.6.20080912svn.fc11                                
  podsleuth.i586 0:0.6.3-2.fc11                                                 
  taglib-sharp.i586 0:2.0.3.2-2.fc11                                            

Complete!

You won't be missed!

There's a party in my pants

Microsofts long slow decline

I've mentioned for several years that I think Microsoft is in decline. It's still profitable, it's still a behemoth, and it's not going to disappear, but there have been a number of problems and business decisions that have taken some time to fully manifest within the marketplace. John Gruber goes into a lengthy analysis of some of the factors.

To be clear, Microsoft remains a very profitable company. However, they have never before reported year-over-year declines like this, nor fallen so short of projected earnings. Something is awry...

...I’m not arguing that Microsoft will collapse. They’re too big, too established for that to happen. I simply think that their results this quarter were not an aberration, but rather the first fiscal evidence of a long, slow decline that began several years ago.

Bruno

"I swapped him... for an iPod."