Techie Manager

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Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added [...]

I hope AT&T gets a big slap on the wrist.  And then a punch to the gut and a kick to the groin.
From the Wall Street Journal:

Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice. The uproar set off a chain of events—Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple’s board, and [...]

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/13/ms_outlook_revamp/
Microsoft is to bring back a Mac version of Outlook, a move that will see the end of its current Mac OS X email, PIM and collaboration offering, Entourage.
This app will be canned when the next major release of Mac Office ships in late 2010.
Entourage could, of course, have been Outlook, but at the [...]

Back in 2000, while on a business trip to Singapore, I picked up a pair of Sony MDR-NC5 noise canceling headphones. I loved them so much that I bought a second pair a year later. Now it’s 9 years later and the ear pads are disintegrating, leaving black powder everywhere when I listen [...]

NSFW, and absolutely spot on. The Onion rocks.
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

Interesting insight into the results of Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” on Wil Shipley’s blog…
Microsoft took a bunch of “regular folks” XP users who were afraid of Vista, and told them Microsoft was going to show them a secret new operating system — which was actually Vista.
UNSURPRISINGLY, these people mostly said they liked Vista.
I hate bad science. [...]

From Joy of Tech:

From Yahoo! Tech:
The Milken Institute’s 2008 State Technology and Science Index looked at five major areas before compiling the list below, which included the state’s ability to attract funding, skilled tech workers, and new businesses. Here is the list of the top ten most tech savvy states:
1. Massachusetts
2. Maryland
3. Colorado
4. California
5. Washington
6. Virginia
7. Connecticut
8. Utah
9. [...]

Finally…oh, yeah – NOW I’m getting one.
From TheStreet.com via Yahoo!:
On March 6, Apple is holding an event for analysts and the media to formally announce plans for its highly anticipated iPhone and iPod Touch software developers’ kit (SDK) that would allow third-party applications to run on the device. Those applications, which in my mind more [...]