The Superest

From two of the most creative illustrators on the interwebs today, comes The Superest. I will tell you no more, you need to experience it for yourself.

Gearing up for Leopard

If you are a web designer/developer type, and you use the mac as your dev platform of choice, and you are planning on upgrading to Leopard when it drops later today, knowing a couple of things before-hand will be helpful. Namely your shiny new OS now sports Apache 2.2.x and and PHP 5.2.x. This is a huge change.

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Leopard Commeth

Yep, it is now official. Apple will be shipping MacOS 10.5 Leopard on October 26th. I have to say that I am actually pretty excited about this release. Leopard is going to introduce some very cool new technology. I am loving my Education Discout right about now!

9rules followup

In the five days since my Rule number 10 post there has been a lot of discussion happening in regards to the user agreement change.

To be fair there was a lot of talk happening before my post, but it was mostly talking at each other and not to each other. I had thought of not posting about this issue and just quietly withdrawing from the community. This had two fatal flaws to it:

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Rule number 10

Get out when things don't make sense anymore.

This week I received an email from Thyme, the COO of 9rules, informing me that the user agreement had changed, and that I must agree to the new terms to retain my membership.

My first thought was "Nice, it is about time they updated the membership agreement. I wonder what new stuff is addressed or highlighted?" After reading for a couple of seconds my good vibes quickly soured. I discovered that the change in the agreement centered around participation in the private forum and/or "my.9rules".

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The post I never thought I would write

This is indeed a dark day. Today is the day that I hang up my Apple Fanboydom forever.

Don't misunderstand, I still plan on using Apple, Inc's products. They are still the best products in the business, and I am far too heavily invested in the platform to simply jump ship at this time.

No, this is about the death of idealism and the overwhelming love and devotion for what once was a vanguard company, and now seems to be nothing more than a ship of fools.

There is no excuse for the iPhone 1.1.1 update and there is no defense for the iPhone 1.1.1 update.

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