I have been getting a lot of phone calls that Office 365 is having trouble with activation. According to users, their copy of Office 365 was previously activated.
This is especially annoying because they actually paid for the subscriptions.
Apple Seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D55
Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D55 to Developers and OS X Beta Seed Program Members.
Be forewarned before installing any beta/preview release software. There tends to be some show-stopping bugs.
Netflix Signs Peering Deal with Verizon
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may really hate the peering deal he signed with Comcast, but that didn’t stop him from entering a similar partnership with another ISP: Verizon and Netflix have also agreed on a paid peering relationship.
News of that pact was first broken Monday afternoon on by BTIG Research’s Walter Piecyk, who tweeted Monday afternoon that Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam had confirmed the commercial relationship between the two companies.
As a customer of both Netflix and Verizon I should welcome this. As a technologist, I am not so sure if this is a good thing in the long run for consumers in general.
There are more dominoes to fall following Netflix deal with Comcast and Verizon. It would affect more companies other than Netflix and ultimately consumers.
Where there is a box, there is a cat.
There’s a theory that where there is a box, there is a cat in it; the outcome may differ when you inspect it.
Taken with Canon EOS 60D and Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens.
- ISO: 3200
- Focal Length: 50mm
- Aperture: f/4.5
- Exposure time: 1/60
The Last Night of Monty Python
From MontyPythonLive.com:
24 April 2014
“Thanks to the wonderful invention of moving pictures, The Last Night of Monty Python is coming to a cinema near you. Get your knotted handkerchiefs out and warm your brains one last time at any one of 450 cinemas across the UK, and 1500 across the world. Join the crowd live from London’s O2 in a final weepy, hilarious, uproarious, outrageous, farewell to the five remaining Pythons as they head for The Old Jokes Home …. On the big screen, in HD.” The Pythons
I watched Monty Python’s Flying Circus on rerun back in the 80’s. Apparently I was not old enough to really understand the jokes back then. In the late 90’s I rediscovered them and actually collected all the episodes on DVDs.
Mobile Safari and Journalism, or the lack of it.
The New York Times Bits published an interview with the person who claimed to be responsible for the development of the first iPhone App, namely Mobile Safari.
John Gruber has a different take on it.
Judging by my inbox, an awful lot of coffee was spewed in Cupertino today upon reading Tolmasky’s self-aggrandizing description of his role in Mobile Safari’s creation. There’s a difference between “the developer responsible for the first version of mobile Safari” and “the developer who claims he was responsible for the first version of mobile Safari”.
UPDATE: Said one long-time trusted source: “He definitely was NOT the lead on the project and several other engineers made far more significant contributions.”
Personally I have been taking what news organization published with a grain or a boulder of salt.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Pie
Jack In The Box is now serving Peanut Butter Cup Pie.
This is certainly a bad news for me and my glutton for deserts.