http://www.boardmad.com ...still mad for it ! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:47:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've programmed in non-4GL you'll appreciate this...you may have already even read it but it's a great anecdote. A recent article devoted to the _macho_ side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement: Real Programmers write in FORTRAN. Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators, and ``user-friendly'' software but ... http://www.boardmad.com/2009/01/06/the-story-of-mel/ I own an iPod Touch...it's a great device and all the millions of words that have been written around the web on it, I'm not going to add further on it except to say I think it's great...but! iTunes sucks ! It's the worst bloated sluggish piece of desktop software I've ... http://www.boardmad.com/2008/12/15/itunes-adrift-on-a-sea-of-cack/ Two very interesting articles on teh interweb [sic!] show a serious change in the state and direction of internet...I wonder if in 20 years time we'll look back and identify this as the tipping point  ? Macs to get AV Windows usage dips Time will tell ;0) http://www.boardmad.com/2008/12/02/the-times-they-are-a-changin/ Sweet mother of god in heaven this looks good ! http://www.boardmad.com/2008/11/23/star-trek-the-prequel/ Dilb's new supervisor - love the 'udder trousers' http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/02/say-youd-die-for-me/ An extract from Google Financials with four of the larget UK players in the Investment banking and financial services based back to a relative price at the start of September '08. Those relative losses in value over one month make for painful reading... RBS - buy at £1.50 http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/01/145/ Rams in the north of england fitted with harnesses and dyed packs to indicate which of the ewes in their flock have been serviced have been getting 'bored' and turning on one another in what can only be described as an ovine gay frenzy ! Gives an entirely new meaning to ... http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/25/whos-the-daaaaahhdddeee/ IT Media sources reporting on the Googlephone release and it's manifest inadequacies when compared to the Jesus Phone quoted Steve Jobs... "I laughed so much a little bit of wee came out" No headphone jack No bluetooth stereo No iPhone-like touchscreen ability No Client for sync'ing your calendar, contacts etc Keyboard quoted as 'mediocre' Plastics and build ... http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/24/googlephone-disappoints/ Firstly this nifty bit of photoshopping celebrating the coupling of Lloyds TSB + Halifax And this little beauty on the might of the US dollar http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/23/laughing-in-adversity/ Yum ! This imagineering concept converges communications, data, UI and OS into one seamless and beautifully conceived platform...if only one thing comes of this pllleeeeeaaasssssse let it be the semantic, clustered file system? http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/23/aurora-loveliness/