Although I’ve been an IBM PC owner/user since the age of 3, I can respect what Jef Raskin, a human computer interaction expert amongst other things, did f or the industry through his invovlement in the development of what was to become the Mac. Jef Raskin was the 31st employee of Apple and passed away ...

There was a post here that advocates using the ReflectiveToStringBuilder from commons-lang t o generate your toString()’s. I must admit that I too have thought about doing this. In particular after looking at the common-lang usage in some Matt Raible’s code. It’s a neat idea but I think its practicality is determined by the architecture ...

I recently installed a few more firefox plugins on my ubuntu laptop (running Firefox 1.0) Current list: Add Bookmark Here Gmail Notifier Google Pagerank Status Bookmarks Synchronizer Gcache ColorZilla ForecastFox FoxyTunes Foxylicious I have the first 5 running for a long time and the add bookmark here and bookmarks synchronizer are two plugins I couldn’t ...

I just read another blog entry where someone called Google a copycat. And to some extent we should agree with that. However (and a big one at that), its not so much whether you are first, second or even third to market, its the quality of your offering and buzz you’re a ble to create ...

A couple weeks back I decided that I needed to bite the bullet and pick up a portable MP3 player. I was initially thinking about cheaping out and going with an iPod shuffle, but the availability is limited in Canada it seems and I’m not sure if I would be too happy in the long ...