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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.


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September 1
Relative Size of Geosocial Universe Some surprises here! Skype at 590 million, sheesh! And Yahoo mail - so high too, why? Surely not because it’s better than GMail? Maybe just because it arrived earlier. Same as Hotmail. Few others I’d like to have seen there, like, Plaxo, Orkut. Are they still relevant?

Relative Size of Geosocial Universe

Some surprises here! Skype at 590 million, sheesh! And Yahoo mail - so high too, why? Surely not because it’s better than GMail? Maybe just because it arrived earlier. Same as Hotmail.

Few others I’d like to have seen there, like, Plaxo, Orkut. Are they still relevant?

Tags: social media tech charts stats
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August 30
Is this the new iPod Nano? We’ll find out on Wednesday. via AppleInsider | Apple’s shrunken 6th-gen iPod nano to retain 30-pin dock connector

Is this the new iPod Nano?

We’ll find out on Wednesday.

via AppleInsider | Apple’s shrunken 6th-gen iPod nano to retain 30-pin dock connector

Tags: iPod Apple Nano tech
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August 11
Whoops! Anyone know what’s going on in the markets in the last few hours?

Whoops! Anyone know what’s going on in the markets in the last few hours?

Tags: tech news
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August 3
Apple’s new power-consumption friendly battery charger “After your battery charge cycle is complete, the Apple Battery Charger reduces its power intake to 30 milliwatts — that’s more than 10 times better than the industry average.” Now that’s neat. Cell phone chargers could learn from this! With billions of mobile phones in user globally, that’s one heck of a potential energy saving. via Apple - Apple Battery Charger - The energy-efficient way to power your accessories.

Apple’s new power-consumption friendly battery charger

“After your battery charge cycle is complete, the Apple Battery Charger reduces its power intake to 30 milliwatts — that’s more than 10 times better than the industry average.”

Now that’s neat. Cell phone chargers could learn from this! With billions of mobile phones in user globally, that’s one heck of a potential energy saving.

via Apple - Apple Battery Charger - The energy-efficient way to power your accessories.

Tags: Apple charger energy eco gadget tech
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July 21
“ It’s official - Facebook has 500 million users! Facebook
Tags: Facebook tech stats news
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July 2
Facebook has 60,000 servers Doubling their capacity in 6 months since November 2009. Facebook Server Count: 60,000 or More « Data Center Knowledge

Facebook has 60,000 servers

Doubling their capacity in 6 months since November 2009.

Facebook Server Count: 60,000 or More « Data Center Knowledge

Tags: tech Facebook
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June 30

“Consumers didn’t ask for tablets” - Forrester Research

When I read a piece of “research” like this from the so-called experts (eg Gartner, Forrester, and the like) I am just reminded how disconnected these research houses are from reality.

They remind me of academics telling business people just “how things are in business”…

So back to this article. They’re saying it’s impossible for Apple to sell any more than a total of 3.5 million iPads because, “consumers didn’t ask for tablets”. Seriously. Did we ask for iPhones? Or iPods? Or iAnything? Anyway because we didn’t ask for such new tech innovations, somehow magically we just won’t buy them. Hello?! What planet are you “researchers” on?

Luckily Apple or Google or even Microsoft for that matter are probably not listening too carefully to your predictions. Especially Apple, since they have already sold 3 million iPads in the last 80 days. Yep Forrester, only 500,000 more will be sold for the rest of the year. Oh wait, you probably didn’t tell us consumers not to buy them.

Article here: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/18/forrester-ipad-sales-will-plummet/

Tags: Apple iPad tech research Forrester
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Apple’s “Retina” display on the new iPhone 4 - explained This is such in interesting scientific article - a lot of which had me stretching my understanding and knowledge of the eye’s functionality. Read more: Apple Retina Display – Jonesblog

Apple’s “Retina” display on the new iPhone 4 - explained

This is such in interesting scientific article - a lot of which had me stretching my understanding and knowledge of the eye’s functionality.

Read more: Apple Retina Display – Jonesblog

Tags: iPhone retina eyes tech
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June 27
Didn’t know newspapers could do that!

Didn’t know newspapers could do that!

Tags: newspapers fun tech
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June 12

OExchange is going to make sharing easier on the web

This new piece of internet plumbing has just got the nod from almost all of the large players. I am a bit surprised it hasn’t had more coverage - but then again it’s a bit geeky and not really big time consumer friendly. Still, I predict this is going to be as significant as OAuth… what? Google it.

Watch the video » OExchange Overview Video

Tags: oauth oexchange tech sharing
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June 7
New iPhone 4 has 960x480 resolution That’s almost as much as some folk’s desktop PCs! Drool-worthy. As usual. Apple - iPhone 4 - Video calls, multitasking, HD video, and more

New iPhone 4 has 960x480 resolution

That’s almost as much as some folk’s desktop PCs! Drool-worthy. As usual.

Apple - iPhone 4 - Video calls, multitasking, HD video, and more

Tags: iPhone Apple tech
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June 6
“ There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. Joel Spolsky, Things you Should Never Do
Tags: programmers developers software code tech
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June 3
This why I like Smartphones In case you haven’t seen it, the iPhone app store allows you to download thousands of apps. Some free, some paid for. I have dozens of apps installed! Some for fun, some for tracking my running, some for business or productivity. Almost daily I have the ritual of hitting the updates button to check which of my apps have updates. Today 10 of my apps got improvements - either bugs fixed or new features. Imagine you bought a car with 30 major features. Imagine then installing 20 new features to make it better. Imagine every month you get updates to your car that make it handle better, safer, more comfortable, improve it’s fuel efficiency and so on? Imagine after a year of owning your car it’s now so much better than when you bought it, and it’s totally customised to your exacting needs? Well, owning a smartphone is like that.

This why I like Smartphones

In case you haven’t seen it, the iPhone app store allows you to download thousands of apps. Some free, some paid for. I have dozens of apps installed! Some for fun, some for tracking my running, some for business or productivity.

Almost daily I have the ritual of hitting the updates button to check which of my apps have updates. Today 10 of my apps got improvements - either bugs fixed or new features.

Imagine you bought a car with 30 major features. Imagine then installing 20 new features to make it better. Imagine every month you get updates to your car that make it handle better, safer, more comfortable, improve it’s fuel efficiency and so on? Imagine after a year of owning your car it’s now so much better than when you bought it, and it’s totally customised to your exacting needs?

Well, owning a smartphone is like that.

Tags: iPhone tech
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June 2
Wired Sells 24,000 iPad Apps in One Day

So, this is the geeks mag. Now without trees involved. 

Only problem is the 500meg download each month. That’s half a gig folks. Never mind the download cost and time, what about the “disk” space each edition will take up on my iPad!? It’s just too big to make it a viable option each month, methinks. Plan B?
Tags: iPad Apple Wired magazines tech
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May 29
New Google Analytics async tracking code is out of Beta Are you using it yet? See article » It’s now easy to set up new sites with Asynchronous Tracking

New Google Analytics async tracking code is out of Beta

Are you using it yet?

See article » It’s now easy to set up new sites with Asynchronous Tracking

Tags: Google Analytics Google tech
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