After months of fierce speculation and pontification regarding Research In Motions new Playbook tablet the wait is over. The day has come, and it has been released; everyone will be suitably unimpressed. Most of the speculation centered on whether RIM would be playing this as a wide appeal consumer tablet or as a tool to [...]

Neal Stephenson pointed out something that struck a chord with me in “In The Beginning Was The Command Line”. He pointed out that car interfaces weren’t cursed with having to be “intuitive”; instead they made up steering wheels and gear shifts and all sorts of arcade controls. He expresses relief that cars weren’t invented in [...]

Hi, I’m running for the President of Computers! Vote for me, and I promise to: Remove the ‘forward’ button from every email client. You should never forward email. Ever. In the history of ever. Not even if it will save the world. The world doesn’t want to be saved that way. Also, everybody doesn’t love [...]