I don’t recommend this profession to anybody with a family because the last thing you want is for you to be working at sea while someone else may be taking care of your wife back home.


Ever since upgrading to new 2.0 firmware on the iPhone, it’s been one bug after another. A couple of apps unexpectedly quit (Twinkle) and my mail sync has gone awry. Whenever I try to sync the iPhone, I get this error message. What gives?

UPDATE: Turns out all I had to do was restore my iPhone.

reblogged from marc
How to Make the Kindle a Mainstream Success
If you’re like me waiting for another version of Amazon’s Kindle to be launched this year, then you may not have to wait longer than expected. No device is perfect but that’s a completely different argument with how popular a device is. Don offers some very compelling advice on what to do to get more Kindles visible on the street. Dropping the price perhaps?
Twinkle
From the moment I first used the Twitterrific iPhone app I disliked it. It takes a long time to load, especially for a service that emphasizes casual updating. The scroll view is super laggy. Almost like trying to use a computer in the 90s while rendering something in a 3D app laggy. As if that weren’t enough it doesn’t cache user icons at all, even within the same session. If you scroll to the bottom then scroll back up it has to reload the icons you already looked at! Well, Twinkle solves all of these things and has a better UI. Thank god. (via morrisonfilm)

I know every web geek was looking forward to Twitterrific on the iPhone, including myself but now that it’s available, Shawn has described exactly how I feel about it. The desktop version is the same. I wonder whether it’s only the free version that acts all buggy.

Employee Clothing & Tweaked Apple Titles
Despite Apple’s retail success and very much like their products, they’re taking steps even further to simplify your shopping experience next time you visit your local store. Certain job titles have been given more clarity which will be defined by the color of shirts.
Staff photographers generally walk around the cruise taking snaps of everyone which you are not necessarily obliged to purchase once they're printed and displayed in photo gallery but one particular guy was anxious to find his photo. He looked meticulously around and was beginning to get aggravated after not finding his photo. He walks up to the manager of the shop for assistance.
Guy:Excuse, how do I know which photo is mine?
Manager:(silence)
Manager walks behind the counter and pulls out a mirror and explains.
Manager:Well sir, you can walk around with this and which ever one matches you reflection, then that one is yours.