Social Media Suicide

Some stories have been running about this site: Web 2.0 Suicide Machine which you give your social site creditentials to and it basically logs in and removes all your content, unlinks all your follows, etc.

Interesting spin is that once you do this, you can't get back in as they change your password and don't give it back (although I guess you could go thru a password recovery via email?)

I have to ask myself, is deleting your online stuff even possible? Google caches stuff. There's the wayback-machine. It would be like trying to unpost a usnet post (for those of you old enough to remember what nntp even stood for).

Hmm... Not quite ready to pull the trigger yet. But something to think about...

There is No Gatorade in Israel

I don't know how this is possible. But I'm convinced there is no Gatorade in Israel.

You would think in a place so hot that you'd be able to find some kind of equivalent to Gatorade.

So here's what happened. My son got sick and I wanted to make sure he was getting enough fluids. So I went on a trek to find Gatorade (or its Israelli equivalent). You can get Coke. You can get Sprite. You can even get Orange Fanta and various "energy drinks" akin to Red Bull. But everwhere I went they told me "Super-Farm" in the mall.
I spoke with no less than 8 people including the pharmacist who I'm sure would know what electrolytes are. No dice. So I left - mission unaccomplished.

There is a seriously untapped market here - if you can stand the heat ;)

Evil Genius?

Another interesting read regarding Apple's left/right hand dealings of ads.

BTW, I read it with the new "Reader" feature in Safari 5 -- which is awsome.

How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

Interesting Wired article on the monarchy that is Apple.

Found myself comparing this to a startup "cowboy mode" -- J.K.

Worth a read...

File management on the iPad

Setting up my wife's iPad with Pages & Keynote was interesting.
The file management is definitely strange. At first I thought I was just missing something obvious. Then I came across this article and found out I wasn't the only one.

Very poor execution IMHO, but I realize they had to push it out the door by a certain date (hence the pulling of the file sharing described in the article) or face the backlash of the fanboys (yes, I'm including myself as well -- can we please get a MBP refresh already?!).

I'll go on record now saying that they'll keep it cumbersome (current method) and add nice MobileMe support (in the same way that they are hooking it into iwork.com beta -- not that THAT implementation is very good either -- fine for commenting on documents and making copy after copy in multiple places). A far cry from something as elegant as say dropbox. Which is why I think they'll hook it into MobileMe iDisk (and, of course, not let any other webdav drives play nice).

Anybody else play with "file sharing" on the iPad?

Steve

P.S. - Anybody have the addiction support line for Plants vs Zombies? I might need an intervention for my wife ;)

P.P.S. - And while I'm at it, still can't send email from non-me.com/mac.com domain using MobileMe email. What is this still the 80's? I get it. We all have to smoke the Apple crack. Perhaps they are waiting for people to stop using faxes and AOL email addresses as a sign... Get with it Apple!

If version control systems were airlines....

A friend sent this to me. Seemed appropriate given our history...

Don't miss the linked "if OSes were airlines" link as well.

Its Bacon!

Wow. My Jewish ancestors are spinning...
I wonder if it comes with free shipping -- of your replacement heart!

Is it getting worse?

I was riding the train home from work the other day and I started to wonder, is AT&T wireless voice and data service getting worse? Or is my tolerance for the crappy service diminishing? As I sat on the train, trying to Google search for something on my iPhone, I looked over at someone with a Verizon mobile broadband card and he was remotely managing some Windows systems. I'm barely able to pull up Google search results on my iPhone and he's using CoRD (on his Mac) to RDP to his systems with no problems whatsoever.

To top it off, I spend most of my days in an office that is absolute telephone hell. I've got a Sprint phone and my AT&T iPhone and I can't use either of them while sitting at my desk. Making matters worse, I've got a Nortel VOIP phone there that only works intermittently as well. WTF?! If it weren't for my current attachment to OmniFocus on my Mac and iPhone, I think I'd ditch the crappy AT&T service. What are the chances the Omni Group will ever come out with an Android version of OmniFocus?