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Failing in humanity or possibly just geeks

This is not a critique of the language, it is a bigoted attack. Scala may not be as functional as Ocaml, this does not mean it is not functional at all. Just as German is a more precise language than English, doesn't make English complete incomprehensible language. Wielded by some, such as myself, it may appear to be incomprehensible but that should be taken as a slur against the user not the language.

This kind of thing makes me sad, whether it is something as banal as an attack on a Programming Language or the more discriminatory attacks on people because of their race, colour, origin or social standing.

Run Keeper

The Mactalk podcast covered off runkeeper on their weekly round up of iphone apps and by god it maybe useful. The idea behind the app is to record your run using the GPS of the phone and when you are finished you can get a few basic stats off the phone like km/h and how long you have been running and a history of previous runs with a funky little graph. You can also upload the data to the run keeper website and have it produce wonderful map of your run on google maps with an accompanying graph showing speed over time and elevation over time.
A wonderfully easy app to use and it may encourage me to get off my ass and excercise a little, if for nothing more than see the graphs and maps.
The only negative after a quick blat round the Sculptures by the sea this morning is the lack of ability to exporting your data. Although a post of the forum from early August suggests they are thinking about how is best to do this.

Joy.

AppleTv - Next development platform ?

There have been a few clues about this over the last week, with the hint of a product transition and a short article on tuaw about apps store possibly being extended to the Apple TV.
The AppleTV with the iphone/ipod touch device would be an excellent gaming platform to compete with the wii - the iphone has a vibration function, accelerometer and touch screen making it a rather solid controller - as long as you don't get any calls mid game ;)
The inclusion of safari on the AppleTV with the iphone/touch as a wireless keyword could serve as a entry level connected device, while still providing a compelling reason for consumers to upgrade to a MacBook, to get standalone applications, isight and personal storage, rather than cloud storage.

iPhone will be your next computer

With the size of applications getting smaller, multi-touch devices and cheap high density storage. Your iphone will be your next computer, take it to work and put it in a cradle to get connectivity with your screen, mouse and keyboard.

Looking for the mouse

Thanks to builtbydave for the tweet to an excellent Clay Shirky talk. 

I don't understand the world.

The west with all it's wonderful  ideals and patronising "we know best" politics. Ready to rush in and help at a moments notice, if it is bombing the crap out of your country and killing your leader to slapping you on the wrist and telling you not to build naughty bombs or power stations.  

  The west is willing to run stable if not morally dodgy countries and bugger them up, but not go into already shafted countries and help out, maybe attempt to do some good.  Dodgy and corrupt leader,  check, country in a state of crisis, check, inflation out of control, check. Right then we can't fuck this up any worse than it is move along.  Military rulers, check, humanitarian disaster being ignored by the rulers, check, once again nothing we can do here, move along. Despot ruler, check, great infrastructure, check, high levels of education, check, non-christian abrahamic religion, check, oil, check, wahoooooo lets go rip this mother apart, bombs, bombs, gotta have bombs.