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• There is a comedian, Tom Green, who every now and then muses about the fact I have the Twitter handle @TomGreen while his is @tomgreenlive and he “wonders” why I won’t give it to him. 
• This morning, on the Opie and Anthony show, he raised it again and sort of told people to ask me for it because I would get mad. 
• At about 10:00 am, noticing a ton of mentions on Twitter, I was aghast to discover that I was being bullied by people demanding I give up my Twitter handle. 
• A couple of minutes later someone posted my phone number and extension at the College where I work and someone else mentioned Opie and Anthony had tried to reach me at that number.

It saddens me to see things like this happen, and I’ve seen it all too often when people new to the Internet don’t understand that on the other side of the screen is a real person.  

Hopefully this is a mistake only made once, especially as more people join the Internet and naming collisions become more common.  

via SMBC

7. At this point I can no longer postpone the actual copy. So I go home and sit down at my desk. I find myself entirely without ideas. I get bad-tempered. If my wife comes into the room I growl at her. (This has gotten worse since I gave up smoking.)

8. I am terrified of producing a lousy advertisement. This causes me to throw away the first 20 attempts.

9. If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy.

via Letters of Note

Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided engineers at a scale the United States could not match. Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.

In China, it took 15 days.

via NY Times

via kottke.org

Linux Mag then asked: “So you didn’t really write vi in one weekend like everybody says?”

No. It took a long time. It was really hard to do because you’ve got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That’s also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow.

Maybe it’s just me spending too much time on Hacker News, but in a world obsessed with making “the next Facebook” over a weekend, it’s refreshing to see that an application of such importance doesn’t need to be hacked up over a weekend, but can take it’s time and mature before entering the market place.  

via The Register