I really enjoy listening to Jason Calacanis when he’s on TWiT, and I think he generally makes a lot of sense (and considering his success, he clearly knows more than me). However, his anti-Apple rant (like so many others) is really off-base (I’m not the only one that thinks so).
There is no technical reason why [...]
Archive for the ‘rant’ Category
9 Aug
Google Voice? Who really cares?
3 Aug
My 2GB, 4 day 0.0.1 iPhone update
A few days ago, Apple released version 3.0.1 of the iPhone OS, which addressed a pretty major SMS vulnerability. When Olyvia tried updating her 3GS to 3.0.1, something went wrong. The iPhone entered “Recovery Mode”, which means that it displays an image indicating that you need to connect it to iTunes, and you can’t do [...]
29 Aug
Vodafone subsumes ihug: can’t handle Internet or phone
Vodafone, who I used to think was an ok company, bought and then subsumed ihug, who once was a good company (but had previously sunk to terrible depths). Ihug did all sorts of nutty side ventures, but generally was a company specialising in Internet access and phone calls.
I called Vodafone yesterday, and got a [...]
22 Aug
0759 for the hidden Sky menu
This really falls under the “just so I know where to look next time I forget” category. With MySky, the “setup” menu is hidden from casual use (IIRC in both UTF Sky and Sky Digital it is not). To get to it, you go to the system settings menu and type 0759 (0SKY) and then [...]
22 Aug
iPhone works fine on prepay
The Vodafone NZ website clearly states that the iPhone (3G) will not be “available” on Prepay. For various reasons, I swapped the SIMs in my prepay Vodafone phone and our on-contract 3G iPhone last night. The iPhone worked without any problems at all with the Prepay SIM.
Phone calls and SMS worked fine, as did (as [...]
8 Jul
Hardly news, but: Vodafone NZ sucks
They finally (hard to believe they waited this long) released their iPhone plans (the website is barely up at the moment – they own the second largest ISP in NZ, and can’t handle a bit of load!).
I knew that the data would be expensive here, although I had a little hope when I saw the [...]
18 Jun
Meterage
There was a lengthy discussion on this week’s TWiT about bandwidth metering; the topic was discussed on the Daily Source Code for a few episodes a while back too. Although Dvorak is often excessively inflammatory and I don’t always agree with what he says, this was a case where he was clearly right and everyone [...]
22 May
There is such a thing as “polite”
In my post rating the potential Mahalo Daily co-hosts, Veronica Belmont herself (presumably!) had this to say:
But on another note, geez… your comments are pretty jerky. These women are trying really hard to make a great show, cut them a little slack. It’s not the easiest thing in the world.
I couldn’t fit a reply nicely [...]
4 Apr
Massey University: out of touch with the real world
A policy on passwords like the one that Massey University has is worse than no policy at all. Of course, when I was there, they forced students to have a four-digit number as their password, despite the fact that doing so violated their own policy, so I guess it’s expected that this will be ignored. Particularly bad [...]
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