There’s an old joke Would you sleep with me for a million euros? Hmmm, ok. Would you sleep with me for €100? No, what kind of person do you think I am? A prostitute? We’ve already established that. Now, we’re just arguing about the price. The case between Apple and FBI has nothing to do with […]
Just helped a scammy Kickstarter with some more excuses for why they have not been able to ship. It feels like I’m starting to run out of steam… MichaelTime person of the year 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2012. westergaard.eu/ […]
I backed a dumb Kickstarter project which in retrospect is an obvious scam (tech project with too short deadline, based on environmental/free energy, creators from greater Russia). It was supposed to deliver a dumb iPhone case around 1.5 years ago, and has been stringing people along with dumb excuses for delays and several “we’ll ship […]
Outlook is in many ways like heaven: that’s where all good things go to die. I have tried many tools for organizing my mails in the past, but they always fail if they are too complicated. Let me guide you thru my no-method super-simple yet very effective approach to handle mails. […]
Here’s a thing I didn’t expect to happen anymore: me publishing presentations on my homepage. It’s basically a shortened version of my post about user scenarios given at a kennissessie at work. It contains all the good stuff: Britney, CPN Tools, and tanks. As a bonus: also Java, Beta, Prolog, C and SML. MichaelTime person of […]
Programming can be complex. Modern systems can include many inputs from users. Inputs that each need to be checked, processed, and results returned back to users. A simple interface to the user may support many usage scenarios and many error scenarios. Here I’ll make a case for not bothering with trying to figure out these […]