Lazycoder

Joke

What do you get if you eat a Blackberry?

Bluetooth.

Wii gets it

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Happy Birthday to Mii – Wii Review: “”

Here’s the amazing part for me. Watch how she is playing. She puts both hands on the racket during a backhand. Why? Because that’s what you would do during a normal tennis match. You don’t have to do that. You can just sit on the couch and flick your wrist and the on-screen effect is the same. But why would you want to do that when you can play it just like you normally would in real life? The Nintendo engineers didn’t look at the Wiimote and see a disconnected controller. They looked at it and saw a tennis racket, a baseball bat, a fishing pole, or a bow. And they did that because they knew that’s how the “unskilled” user would look at it. That’s something to consider when you are designing interfaces for people.

The first Star Wars game that comes out for the Wii and allows lightsaber duals will BURY the Xbox360 and Playstation3. Your primary console will be the Wii and the secondary will be from either Microsoft or Sony.

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(Via Coding Horror.)

Ahhh, I finally have an online icon that is truly representative of me.

127.0.0.1

Microsoft Vista Ferrari Giveaway

Microsoft Vista Ferrari Payoffs–horrible move. (bonus: PayPerPost comes clean–who cares) – The Jason Calacanis Weblog

It’s nice to see that the big traffic getters are coming around to where Phil and I were nine months ago. If you are worried about what people who read you think about you, put up a disclaimer.

The one thing that irks me about this is that Calacanis, Arrington, and others all seem to think that ALL bloggers should be journalists. What about a guy like me, just started putting thoughts up on the web back in ’98 to practice his writing skills, am I a journalist? A pundit? I didn’t ask for that title and I don’t want it. I’m a “computer guy”. A father. A husband. A son. A technology enthusiast. A Programmer. A Software Engineer. Why should Frans Bourma care if Robert McLaws “credibility” is tainted because he accepted a laptop from Microsofts PR firm. Does Robert McLaws have a responsibility to the public at large just because he starts a blog? Should we hold ALL bloggers to the same imaginary standard that we hold newspaper and TV journalists? Impartiality? Does the responsibility come with a larger audience? What’s the threshold? 10K page views per day? 100K?

Hugh MacLeod had a great comment over at Shelly Powers place.

I wouldn’t have just given the laptops to “high profile” bloggers. I would’ve given them out to much lower profile bloggers as well. It would’ve made for a much more interesting story, methinks.

IMO, that’s both what’s wrong and right with the entire web right now. All people care about are eyes on their page. How can I leverage the web to advance my product? What high profile blogger can shill me for now? That’s what is wrong. Once you become high profile, all sorts of pressure is put on you. The beauty of the web is that the little known person, the expert in the smallest thing, can rise up and speak their mind. And eventually have everyone and their agent trying to use them.

Bottom line, it’s my choice whether or not I accept unsolicited gifts and it’s my choice whether or not said gifts affect my impartiality. I don’t feel any need If you have any questions, see my post. I put the post there of my own free will. I don’t hold other people to my own standards. If you want to shill for somebody, chances are you’ll be pretty obvious and your readers will take that into account.