Category Archives: Business

Common sense writ large

Posted on 2008-07-21 by Graham Lee

Looking at the bottom of Apple’s Q3 results, as indeed with any similar publication from a US publicly-traded company, we see the following text. This press release contains forward-looking statements including without limitation those about the Company’s estimated revenue and … Continue reading →

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Ah, the sweet sound of my own voice

Posted on 2008-07-14 by Graham Lee

The title is a linky to the press release regarding the edition of Sophos Podcasts I recorded with Carole, and which has now (clearly) gone live. In it we mainly talk about the data theft and Macs technical paper I’ve … Continue reading →

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This means business

Posted on 2008-06-06 by Graham Lee

This is the design of the business card I’ll be taking to WWDC. Let’s look at some notable features. Photo in top left. I don’t know about you, but I find it much easier to remember what someone looks like … Continue reading →

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Managers: Don’t bend it that far, you’ll break it!

Posted on 2008-05-22 by Graham Lee

Go on then, what’s wrong with the words we already have? I think they’re perfectly cromulent, it’s very hard to get into a situation where the existing English vocabulary is insufficient to articulate one’s thoughts. I expect that linguists and … Continue reading →

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Social and political requirements gathering

Posted on 2008-05-05 by Graham Lee

I was originally going to talk about API: Design Matters and Cocoa, but, and I believe the title of this post may give this away, I’m not going to now. That’s made its way into OmniFocus though, so I’ll do … Continue reading →

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“Patently” obvious

Posted on 2008-02-24 by Graham Lee

Due to a lack of digit extraction I’m not at FOSDEM this weekend. That’s unfortunate because as well as catching up with my friends at Brainstorm and on GNUstep, I really enjoyed the weekend last year and drank plenty of … Continue reading →

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Non-subscription updates means charged?

Posted on 2008-02-08 by Graham Lee

< p>The justification for the iPod Touch upgrade fee (to enable the new apps, which are actually deployed-but-disabled by a free firmware upgrade) is the same as the justification given for the MacBook wireless upgrade fee last year – that … Continue reading →

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We! Haven’t! Thought! This! Through!

Posted on 2008-02-01 by Graham Lee

So almost the entire world has exploded with news that Microsoft haven’t bought Yahoo!, but are at least waving ridiculous amounts of TEH CAHS under the noses of the shareholders. But what would be the outcome of such a takeover? … Continue reading →

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Project: Autonomous Revolutionary Goldfish

Posted on 2008-01-18 by Graham Lee

I was going to write, am still going to write, about how silly project names get bandied about in the software industry. But in researching this post (sorry blogosphere, I’ve let you down) I found that the Software-generated Gannt chart … Continue reading →

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FSF membership

Posted on 2007-12-04 by Graham Lee

I am now an associate member of the FSF. This is a good way to support Free Software development (including GNUstep, and you don’t even need to be able to code :-). I’ve added a referral link to the sidebar … Continue reading →

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