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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m on March 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

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