Graduation Pics!
May/100
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Word of the Day
May/100
sesquipedalianism \ses-kwi-PEED-l-iz-uhm\, adjective:
1. Given to using long words.
2. (Of a word) containing many syllables.
Quoting those who insist on engaging in sesquipedalianism (using “large words when smaller ones will do,”) Cavett romps and stomps over his subjects in a veritable malign-fest of the linguistically misguided.
– Susie Berta, Susie’s Year of Words – 2008 (Blog), April 14, 2008
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New Torah iPad App
Apr/100
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Good News and Bad for Bit.ly
Apr/100
Today Bit.ly, the default URL shortner expereice some good news and then some bad. [Both pieces below from TechCrunch.com]
The Good:
Amazon has launched it’s own shortened URL, amzn.to, powered by bit.ly’s
new Pro service. Twitter’s default (for now) URL shortener has 6,000 corporate clients, including Amazon. The online retailer joins other corporations like nyti.ms (NYTimes), huff.to (Huffington Post), on.cnn.com (CNN) and yes, tcrn.ch (Techcrunch). Last year, the company rolled out it’s…
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450,000 iPads sold but how many returned?
Apr/100
[From ZDnet.com]
Yesterday Apple treated the world to what’s coming in iPhone OS 4.0. So far the reviews are mixed, but what was more interesting was how many iPads are flying off the shelves.
On Monday Apple announced that it had sold 300,000 iPads by end of day Saturday, and now we’re hearing that more than 450,000 have been sold. What’s most interested about that stat, though, is that I heard from a source that there’s a tremendous amount of buyer’s remorse with the iPad, and people are coming in droves to return them.
It’s not surprising for me to hear that people are returning them. I’ve said in the past that I’m still undecided about my own purchase, and if I wasn’t a publisher / developer of Apps myself, I probably would be returning it, too. The main reason at this stage being that I’m just not finding where it totally belongs in…
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