TFD hits the nail on the head. Again.

First off, Drew read my mind regarding the entitled attitude of the 21st Century:


Secondly, holy shit, was 1981 really 30 years ago?

A Sad Day Indeed

Last Saturday when we were all looking the other way, one of the Titans of computer science left us. If there's anybody I would aspire to emulate, it's Dennis Ritchie. The man gave us C and Unix, and really, the entire idea of portability sprang from his lab. Every aspect of modern computing - save networking - is a descendant of his work in some way.

Bon Voyage Dennis, you were one of the great ones, and you'll always be my hero.

Sometimes the latest and greatest just isn't

Is it just me?

Thunderbird updated the other day, breaking yet another one of my plugins. I think they're all kaput now. Thanks, Mozilla. iOS 5 is coming out soon, which means we have to tear around and make all of our apps "compliant" or they'll get pulled from the AppStore. Thanks, Apple. We're mostly moved onto Blogger, and that's fine, but now my RSS feeds are all hosed (TBird thinks all the imported entries have the same date), and there's no option to have more than 25 items in the feed. Thanks, Google.

Everybody's in a hurry to update their software, but nobody gives a shit about what people already have in place. I'm all for progress to a point as long as it doesn't involve discarding everything I have right now. Everybody beat up Microsoft for years for doing this, yet for some reason we've all decided now that it's a perfectly acceptable practice.

Screw that. Stop breaking your software. You're not going to inspire much loyalty to your brand if moving to another system is just as easy as upgrading yours. And increasingly it is.

The End of an Era

So long, Steve. For better or worse, you changed the world.
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