Done!

My first iPhone project, Flick NBA Basketball, now shipping! View on Freeverse.com (dead link)

My goodness it’s fun to work on the iPhone. It’s amusing to me, that my career started with Apple ][e’s and the iPhones are based on the same basic architecture (ARM processors). It also seems to separate the coders who actually care about resource (RAM, disk, etc) useage from the ones who just “splat” code.

 

Yup, there I is, “Lead Programmer.” Woo!

Web searches – too much!

DNS is *not* the place to insert a search page, when an error occurs. There is a reason errors occur – to let the client computer know something is wrong. It is not simple to ‘guess’ that something is wrong since you idiots at Time warner cable and OpenDNS.org seem to think “oh, they must have typed something wrong.” No, I didn’t! And it shouldn’t be failing in the first place! It’s a perfectly valid lookup! Why your servers respond with fails for 3 out of 10 times for the same request is beyond my understanding!

quantum theory of politics

Isn’t it a problem that the news media takes polls, then broadcasts that information, *before* an election? Doesn’t that mean you’re poisoning the voting pool by giving people a different idea of what will happen?

  • polls say obama was gonna win tonight
  • but isn’t it possible that people saw that and said ‘hey, i gotta go vote’
  • and now clinton is winning because of it?

or, a more sinister example

  • polls say candidate A is gonna win
  • so candidate A supporters say “they’ll win, i don’t have to worry about voting”
  • yet candidate B wins by a few percentage points because of the people who decided to come out because of the poll?

does that sound *exactly* like the 2000 election?