Filed under "stuff doesn't work" and "consequences of lost focus" - I ended up dealing with an interesting bug in the new "Catalina" update for Mac OS. No, not the one giving antivirus and other "data protection" types nightmares about the kernel being locked down, no extensions, etc. It turns out for a lot of people, you walk into a Starbucks, hotel, etc., that when you connect to the wifi, it connects, but that login/authentication sheet that is supposed top open up to allow you on the netw…
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Two dead and 20 injured after an in-construction collapse of a hotel in New Orleans [https://news.yahoo.com/1-dead-19-injured-hard-095956818.html?guccounter=1]. You can read up if you like, but the upshot is that this is the second time in several years a major construction project literally came apart before it was even completed [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/collapsed-florida-walkway-was-built-using-new-accelerated-bridge-technology-n857166] . I understand "shit happens", but due to…
Peter Grant makes the following point regarding “Amazon is taking away muh jobs [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-for-easy-target-to-blame-for.html] .” > Companies who are currently struggling to attract customers, such as retail stores, often have themselves to blame for their predicament. They stock limited merchandise, employ the minimum number of store staff (many of whom have no idea what they’re selling or how it works), offer minimal customer service (and that on…
To follow up on the notes in my previous post where Apple really dropped the fucking ball – and other people, even fanboys, are arguing that Apple is provably losing it on multiple fronts – John Gruber points [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/03/adamson] to an article called “ Capitulation [http://subfurther.com/blog/2017/01/03/capitulation/].” > Yes, I bought a new Mac Pro. For certain values of “new”. Hear me out, though, after the jump. Why? So, my last post [http://subfurther.com…
John Gruber’s site is one I have a love-hate relationship with. The man “gets” why Apple has worked – whether you like Apple kit or not – and what made apple successful as a businessup to this time. He also created the very useful markdown tagging/formatting system for plain text. If he could lay off the non-computer political posts where he proves that the very principles he applies to explaining Apple’s success he cannot generalize to the rest of the world… But I digress. He has, with some j…