http://files.thilosophy.com Everything Thilo feels he needs to share ... en “Sally.” A mutter... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/05/03#the_stand Last month I was very happy to see J.K... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/04/26#tor_without_drm A long, long time ago, I made a list of what my web browser (Camino at the time, now pretty evenly split between Firefox, Chromium and Safari) would suggest when I type just a single letter... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/04/24#alfred_completes It just occurred to me that I have never seen a cigarette vending machine in China, a revelation that would probably have come to me much earlier if I smoked... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/04/20#smoke I spent some time yesterday trying to determine the compatibility of popular Creative Commons and Open Source licenses with the iOS App Store... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/04/15#cc-by-sa I was at the electronics mall shopping for hard disk enclosures when I came across a Kindle 4 also on sale there... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/04/01#duokan Traditional publishers are having a hard time dealing with digital content distribution, which removes two essential limitations present in physical media... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/03/30#pottermore Today is the day that everything breaks down... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/03/20#breakage_day I am going to spend the next two nights in a hospital... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/03/08#inpatient Today was finally a full day in Metro (and Snow Leopard, as I gave up on Notepad and wrote this and my notes with my usual TextWrangler setup)... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/03/07#windows8_wednesday Today a play-by-play of what I did, without much commentary... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/03/06#windows8_tuesday Last week, Microsoft released a preview version of their upcoming Windows 8 operating system (interestingly enough at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which is an event not for the PC industry, but for mobile phones), and since it is a free download (I assume it expires after a few months) I am thinking to spend a week playing with it, documenting my impressions in daily blog posts... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/03/05#windows8_installation I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/23#down_and_out Just yesterday, I wrote about how Chinese users might benefit from a special version of iOS, and now today's announcement of Mountain Lion has this passage... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/17#mountain_lion_china Apple have just announced (in a rather unusual fashion) that they plan to speed up the release cycle of OS X, aiming for a major update every year, starting with Mountain Lion, scheduled for summer... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/17#gatekeeper If there was any need to still provide evidence how mainstream Apple products have become, it cannot get more obvious than at our neighbourhood Walmart, where I go for groceries three times a week, and which has recently become an Apple Authorized Reseller, a fact they proudly advertise on a banner hoisted above the little section where you can play with the goods (if by goods you mean iPads, you will have to compete with a constant number of kids that hang around the three hands-on devices)... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/16#apple_youtube_facebook_china thilo+ is slowly growing (in functionality, if not in membership)... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/08#thiloplus_atom I have just finished watching the six episodes of the BBC mini-series Sherlock, and while it is an excellent production, I have two big complaints about it... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/04#game_of_shadows This photo was NOT taken three hours ago... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/02/02#more_than_three_hours_ago One area where treebooks come out ahead of ebooks are christmas presents... http://files.thilosophy.com/2012/01/29#steve_jobs