Le sigh. It’s that time again. When I’m going to be on the road for a while and I’m going to need more than 2 GiB of data, and more functionality than what my iPad can offer. I’m going to need tethering. Unfortunately I have iOS 6 on my iPhone. So far as I can… Read more
Only a few pages into the iOS Security document released by Apple today, and already there’s a notable error. It states: Apps can’t share data directly with each other; sharing can be implemented only by both the receiving and sending apps using custom URL schemes, or through shared keychain access groups. False, at least partially.… Read more
I think the font here on my blog is too big, on my iMac. But it looks really nicely sized on an iPad. D’oh. Throughout primary & secondary school I stubbornly stuck with Geneva 9 pt. Printed, of course… kids today might not know what that means, but when I was growing up the older… Read more
I’ve wanted to try out a few little projects based around llvm/clang for a while now. I grabbed the sources from svn last week, and have been perusing them, and their documentation, randomly. Today I caught wind of the supposed support for Xcode (in the form of Xcode project files) via CMake. “Awesome!”, I thought,… Read more
I bought the book Bartending last night, to read before bed. I figured it’d be full of amusing and/or interesting anecdotes, and it would restore my will to live after watching The Hunger Games. The problem is not so much what’s there – it is well enough written, and the stories are interesting, even tending… Read more
There’s a difference between releasing three films in a series and releasing a film in three parts. Unfortunately, it appears “The Hunger Games” is in the latter category. A surprisingly depressing movie. It was well produced; it could have had a great ending. Instead it had… basically nothing. It’s worse than a “bad” ending because… Read more
