Hallelujah! Gmail Gets IMAP support. Now it’s possible to use a native email client and keep everything synchronized. It’s nice that this came just in time for Leopard and its new Mail features.
Category Archives: Asides
Quotes
And the IT worker has to know in their bones that if they make a mistake, things can go horribly wrong. Tension and cynicism are constant companions, along with camaraderie and competitiveness. It’s a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don’t get out much, and when you do it’s usually at night.
–Ken MacLeod, from the introduction to The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Real hackers — computer programmers in the sense that the word was coined at MIT in the 1960s — are meticulous, intelligent, mathematically and linguistically inclined obsessives. Far from diving in and out of your bank account details, they’re more likely to spend months working on a mathematical model of an abstraction that only another hacker would understand, or realise was an elaborate intellectual joke. Â
–Charles Stross, from the afterward to The Atrocity Archives
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NBC
I was sorry to hear that NBC’s shows will no longer be sold on iTunes. I regularly bought Heroes last season, but it sounds like NBC was making unreasonable demands. There’s no way I would spend $4.99 on one episode of television.
Nanotech
Science Friday has a podcast up on nanotechnology. Nanotech is often used in the media as a sort of science-fiction deus ex machina, so it’s good to hear a more scientific take (via Cornell).