cc licensed flickr photo shared by aliceskr It’s been rattling around in the grey matter since Saturday, an un-organized strand of thoughts about the TEDxNYED event– and lacking a clever title, I made it a past tense verb (and that is something I expect no one to even spot as clever). Just to set the baseline, I only saw about 1/3 of the sessions on the live video stream; after al it was a nice Saturday, and I had a pile of firewood to cut. So I cannot give a full opinion of the event based on the portions of the elephant I touched. First of all, it is no small feat that the Livestream site supported 20,000 viewers. That is astounding. For anyone who has had the ulcer inducing job of managing a live stream, there’s little joy. You hear a tsunami wave of complaints when the stream fails [...]
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Booted By the Apple Comment Police: Saying “Stupid Design” is Bad
photo credit: minifig A post I made to the Apple Discussion forums this morning has been shown the back door, and I guess I have been slapped. They took my post off their site, who gives a rat’s arse when I can publish it here? I posted something because I have been stumped through other channels (documentation, help, asking on twitter, cussing) on how to delete an un-needed calendar on my iPhone. Unlike almost every other type of thing you put on an iPhone, there is no way to simply remove a calendar. The problem is some sort of weird sync issue. I have a few calendars in iCal that I sync to Google Calendar using Spanning Sync, an din turn, iCal also syncs with iPhone. The problem has been with the Birthdays calendar, which is generated in iCal automatically when you enter a birthday in the Address Book application. [...]
