Long live the King of Pop

One strong and powerful message by the planet’s once most prolific performer. Unfortunately the world lost Michael Jackson long before he passed away today.
“I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and make a change”
I’m still working on it.
Rest in Peace, Moonwalker
August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009

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75% adoption rate and $65 million in five days

Impressive numbers posted by Tapbots. 75% of iPhone owners have upgraded to 3.0 while just over 50% of iPod touch owners have. Obvious conclusion to draw there given 3.0 costs $9.95 for iPod touch owners and free for iPhone owners.

With at least 13 million iPod touch owners according to Apple’s latest financial report in April, a 50% adoption rate nets Apple a decent $65 million in just 5 days.
On a different note, developers may soon drop support for OS 2.x given the majority of iPhone OS users have switched to 3.0, possibly before the next round of iPod updates. Some may have already
(found on daringfireball)

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The World According to Twitter

Checked my Twitter direct message inbox today and got a note from David Pogue. Yes, THAT David Pogue. He’s sending me an autographed copy of his next book, The World According to Twitter.
A thousand thanks David. Awesome!

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Debate or Quiz show?

The fact that there are presidential and vice presidential debates for Indonesia’s upcoming election is amazing. Each candidate is being made to show what they’re worth, what they stand for, and how far. The problem is there are still clear signs of restraint from many sides and I’m not talking just about the candidates.
 
The moderator of last night’s VP debate complained that he was being held by the rules of the debate from digging further into where each candidate stand. The whole thing was a joke. The debate did not happen at all, there was no VP debate, there was a Q&A session in which no counterpoint was made. Each candidate only had to answer the moderator’s question, nothing more. No effort was made to argue a point made by other candidates.
 
What’s funny was the aftermath. In the post Q&A session, both MetroTV and TV One held separate response sessions with representatives of each candidate. This was where the debate happened. Each rep defended to the death what their respective man was saying earlier. Nobody wanted to concede despite their candidates clearly diverting the questions on several occasions. It was more interesting watching the post-“debate” debate that the “debate” itself.

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Sigh

How can you use foreign words when you can’t even spell words properly in your own language?
 
note: it’s not even a kitchen.

Sent from my iPhone

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Posterous interface changes

I noticed this a few days ago but hadn’t managed to blog about it. I don’t remember there was an announcement by Posterous on blog or on Twitter. I think this is a really nice change and makes things seem much neater. Nice work guys.

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kappachan:

carocat:

In case of Fire – Do Not Twitter (via johnpiercy)

Good advice!

This reminds me of Moss from ‘The IT Crowd’. “Fire. Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark…”

somemandy:

arisaja:

kappachan:

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Internet Speeds and Contention Ratios Explained

Internet Speeds and Contention Ratios Explained