Random Rants

Grrr: Tiger is pretty cool, but man, Mail.app and a few other things are slow.

Grrreat: Spotlight and Dashboards are seemingly designed to keep our love faithful to Apple before Google takethaway.

Define Social Software: Tools that do not require heavy use of the TAB key.  Or at least only do at setup, for your profile. 

Pinky Constraint-Based Innovation: Discovered this phenomenon when my kid broke the TAB key.

Going Physical: Before heading off for a round trip red eye to the East Coast, Pete and I went office hunting.  Knowing full well that Real Estate is the leading cause of death for startups. 

Staying Virtual: We set up a branch office in Lubbock, Texas.  Yee haaw!

Research as Marketing: Congrats to Lili and the Microsoft Research Social Computing team on finally admitting they were more product developers than researchers, and moving over to work on Longhorn.  See you in ten years!

Reader's Greatest Friend: The space bar, for scrolling.  That is, until the Automator can detect my "bullshit" command.  When I want to move on to the next chunk of micro-content, I just want to utter it, under my breath repeatedly.

Comments

[jeremy hunsinger]

mail.app was slow for me at first too, but after it was done indexing my message archives, it became just as fast. I can sit here with the old mail app on a dual 2g 2m and compare it click for click with the old one, the only difference is in loading graphical messages, which is slower on the new one, but since people should be sending only ascii or plaintext....