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my name is benny. find out more at bwong.net. wrote the iPhone app for Exit Strategy NYC. Narwhals are my favorite. Bold little bastards
My blog just turned 3!
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Whoa, tumblr sent me an email telling me my tumblr turned 3. crazy
Once upon a time I had a first-world problem, luckily I had a first-world product that increases my dependancy on technology, removes my need to consult other humans and deepens my handicap of extreme-laziness. My friends were thoroughly impressed.
Chevychase Design Studio: Beautiful
The Lambeth Palace- a makeshift 150 seat auditorium in a tunnel under Waterloo train station with popcorn stall, lounge bar and stunning temporary toilet facilities.
"The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility."
"When we were building the tablet PC in 2001, the vice president in charge of Office at the time decided he didn’t like the concept. The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow."
Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com
Interesting article I read a couple of weeks back about how dysfunctional the politics within Microsoft are, which, in part, explains the lack of innovation coming out of Microsoft.