To mark this weekend’s Pacquiao/Clottey match, I’m running a promotion on Fightcard; this week, you can download it for free. (Or you should be able to, as soon as the iTunes store updates its information.)
And I still pick Clottey to win.
A few days ago Seth posted a piece on Sprezzatura, “an archaic Italian word for being able to do your craft without a lot of visible effort”. It’s not a bad piece. I’m not sure the archaic Italian was strictly necessary, but then perhaps people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Seth’s post reminded me of one of my own. The gist of both is that it’s attractive to (appear to) enjoy your work.
“Let’s ride atop the cliffs. Again.”
I found the basic operation of UIScrollViews to be a little perplexing; it wasn’t obvious to me how to get a simple test case up and running. Therefore, I thought it might be useful to share such a test case with you.
The graveyards filled with indispensable men.
Chapter 6 of David Maurer’s “The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man” (TBC) is entitled “Birds of a Feather”, and discusses the characteristics of con men in general terms. It’s interesting stuff, but it seems to me to be a mostly disconnected mass of trivia, and I will cover it in that spirit.
I’m pleased to announce that AAPL has approved v2.0 of my iKnowPeople application, and that it’s now available on the iTunes store. This version includes some minor UI tweaks, the ability to create contacts from your address book, a spiffy new icon, and Full-Text Search, which I may have mentioned once or twice.
I word about the new icon: I got it through 99designs, and I couldn’t be happier with their service. A fellow going by the handle “surmise” submitted the winning design.
Since I’ve released a new version, I have new promo codes. If you’d like to try this app for free, please send an e-mail to iknowpeople@fairoakslabs.com, and I’ll send you a code. (While supplies last.)
Two people with two messages – different words, but the music is the same. And it’s creepy, conspiratorial music.
Mark Twain famously wrote:
Give a man a reputation as an early riser, and that man can sleep till noon.
Which, if you can get the former, is all well and good. But what if you’re unlucky, and have to deal with an unfavorable reputation? I would suggest that not only is it futile to argue about it, it’s not even productive to try to disprove it through action.
Frustrated, Tom finally read the manual.
