Graduate students don’t have money. They need computers. I started seeing netbooks everywhere I turned this year. Students had them in the classroom, and postdocs (on a same level of poverty as grad students, I think) started ordering them. The netbook is a ultra-petite laptop. More than a smartphone (minus the “-phone”), but still not [...]
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Both writing and reading computer blog posts bore me, but occasionally it is useful to put up something to stimulate discussion. So today there are two things up: iPodia and the woeful state of the Address Book.app. Probably 90% of my use of Safari on the iPhone is split between Facebook and Wikipedia (though now [...]