Joanna Stern reviews the MacBook Air as a Windows laptop. I enjoyed this—I've considered in the past whether the MacBook Air would be a suitable laptop for me even though most of the time I don't run OS/X. (Conclusion: probably not any more, though it might have seemed that way once.) She does highlight the… Continue reading Hard edges, small keys
Month: February 2012
Wrapping a C++ library with JNI, part 3
In this series... Introduction, outlining the general steps from starting with a C++ library to being able to build and run simple tests on some JNI wrappers; Part 1, in which I design some simple Java classes and generate the stub wrapper code; Part 2, in which I add just enough of the implementation to… Continue reading Wrapping a C++ library with JNI, part 3
Operating system updates
Google have released a version of their Chrome web browser for Android, and it seems to be rather good—but it only runs on the very latest version of Android, version 4. Which is a bit of an annoyance, because hardly anybody has that version. Glancing at the 12 most popular Android phones on the Expansys… Continue reading Operating system updates
Wisława Szymborska
The Polish poet Wisława Szymborska died this week. I can't read a word of Polish, but in English translation she was one of my favourite poets. She wrote about large and sometimes terrifying themes using small subjects and a friendly, light ironic touch. She had perspective. It's gratifying that I can always wake up before… Continue reading Wisława Szymborska
The other Internet
Facebook aims to go public— So far I've mostly thought of Facebook as the other Internet. It's an Internet that contains all the stuff I don't really want to know. A site with the handy property that almost everything on it requires you to log in to see it, meaning that I never see any… Continue reading The other Internet
I had been thinking of praising SkyDrive too
Then I tried to log in to it just now, and Eloquent. Perhaps it has a bit more in common with the typical ASP site of the 90s than I'd thought.
The Breakfast Post 