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I have to say, I’m quite unimpressed with the announcements made at MacWorld by Apple. Perhaps Apple set the bar too high last year with the unexpected release of the iPhone, but I would have expected more from Apple in 2008.iPhone Updates – New features include: location on maps, movable icons, and multi-recipient SMS. [...]

“It’s not bragging if it’s true..”What? Yes it is! Bragging is only bragging if it’s true. If it’s not true, it’s called something else: lying, deception, exaggeration – take your pick. Who writes this stuff?I think they’re trying to play off the old adage, “It’s not paranoia if they really are [...]

The Gustav Holst Foundation is suing Hans Zimmer, the movie soundtrack composer, for copying parts of Holst’s Mars movement of The Planets in the soundtrack for Gladiator. There are so many things wrong with this, but here’s my take. Composers have been mimicking, adapting, and even wholesale copying parts of each others’ compositions for centuries. [...]

I’m speaking, of course, of the Da Vinci Code movie. I saw it over the weekend and I thought it was along the same lines as National Treasure. It’s a good story, if that’s all you take it to be: a fictional story. Having not read the book, I assume that the [...]

“No phone for you!” Cingular’s upgrade dates are now chiseled in stone, apparently. They seem to think it’s too risky to sell me another phone and extend my contract, even though my current contract isn’t up yet. It makes no sense. I’m not sure if I want to fight the battle or just [...]

I’ve recently noticed a particularly annoying and common misuse of the English language. Take for example this excerpt from Slashdot: “As always, the Freenet team are asking that people support…” (emphasis mine). According to most English grammar references, collective nouns (such as team) are referred to singularly unless the sentence subject includes all [...]