October 2009
30 posts
“Simplicity is complexity resolved.”
– Brancusi (via andrewmuto)
Windows 7 Blue Screen in Virtual Server R2
And you thought crashs/blue screen’s were a thing of the past.. Turns out when installing Windows 7 on Virtual Server R2 you need Service Pack 1 or the additions trigger a bluescreen.
That’s fine but the ‘regular’ SP1 from Microsoft claimed to have already been installed. After numerous bluescreens, frustration and 30 minutes of googling it turns out there is an alternate...
Oh the agony
Translating with Borland’s ETM is an agonizing process. It’s coma inducing. Damn them for creating such a buggy product.
“Once you have a mission, you can’t go back to having a job”
– (via taylordavidson) (via kareem) (via rahmin)
“In the 10 years or so I’ve been involved with startups, I have never seen a...”
– Chris Dixon (via entrepreneurwisdom) (via mikehudack) (via rahmin) (via hiten) (via iomegadrive)
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams (via kari-shma)
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist...”
– Albert Schweitzer
“Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their...”
– Lila Swell (via fatalistichues)
Oink oink.. cough cough
Oh god when will this flu end!
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via hrrrthrrr)
iPhone apps - short usage lifetime
Mobile analytics company Pinch Media recently released some interesting iPhone app usage statistics (full article). It was covered in a bit more detail at Smashing Magazine . From the Smashing Magazine article:
A measily 3% of people who have downloaded a free app use it after 30 days.
Only 20% of users come back to use a free app on the 2nd day, and it’s steadily downhill thereafter...
September 2009
0 posts
So long and thanks for all the fish
So the time has come to move on from Mercury Mobility.
9 months in the making (and an experience I liken to the male equivalent of childbirth) the new integrated storefront was launched with one of the largest carriers in North America. It was an often exhausting but thoroughly enjoyable experience. Kudos to all those involved, especially the other devs and testers at Mercury and in the...
“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.”
– Wisdom of Confucius