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I get some inbound links from the most unlikely of places. This time it’s from a blog called Fire Ron Guenther which appears to be about one Illinois resident’s desire to end the employment of someone called Ron Guenther.

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Steve Ballmer has commented on the success of the iPad, calling it an "interesting product", only to then defend his company’s own record by stating they’d been "selling Windows on tablet computers for years".

He also said the iPhone had “no chance” of gaining significant market share in 2007. He bought and ruined Danger (should have stuck with NetBSD). He trumpeted the Courier as a tangible competitor even though it never got past the concept video stage. He abandoned the Kin project almost as soon as the phones went to market. The Zune had a "squirt" feature and came in brown!

Forgive me if I don’t take his words very seriously, especially in the mobile space.

Photo of Steve Ballmer by Martin Olsson on Wikimedia Commons.

So it looks as though Perl 6 might be coming soon… again!

#!/usr/bin/env perl -wT
use strict;

&sayWooHoo("again");

sub sayWooHoo {
    print ("Hey, 6 might be coming soon, $_[0]!");
}

My first job out of high school was writing Perl programs. Was the happiest time of my life, because university hadn’t crushed my spirit yet. Perl is awesome. CPAN is awesome! And don’t believe what they say, it is possible to write Perl programs that you and others can understand later, provided you follow the conventions :).

I haven’t featured a Whole Wheat Radio artist for a few weeks, so here’s my favourite for today! From their WWR artist page:

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#96: When I was a kid, I called him Carlos Sultana.

#97: My parents never used to correct me when I called him Carlos Sultana. Apparently they found it amusing.

Awesome photo courtesy of Paul Reed Smith Guitars. And for once, a Fun Fact here is true. Well, not to suggest I was full of crap when I wrote the others. For one, I type them. Gracias.

Firefox may still be the best browser to use for its security and privacy extensions, but if you have Chrome or Safari user interface envy you can use the userChrome.css file to pare down the UI to something a bit more spiffy.

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With their launch of new iMacs and Mac Pros yesterday, Apple are perhaps copping the most flack for discontinuing the 24 and 30 inch Cinema Displays. Presented for your consideration are my thoughts, interspersed with plenty of pointless nostalgia. Is that how you spell "interspersed"? Doesn’t look right.

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For a brief period of time this evening, Australia watched Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott debate over who would best serve the country as PM by dodging questions, not proposing constructive steps towards any environmental action and expelling much hot air about boat people in a way Pauline Hanson would be proud. Third party candidates like Bob Brown or Fiona Patten who would have made the debate interesting (or even just useful) were not invited.

I watched by proxy through Twitter. Don’t think I missed much.

I completely missed this story, but Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One. For all my talk of the iPhone and how my 3G model still does everything I want it to, I’m sad to see Google pull out of the race as a direct competitor.

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As my old man would say… bummaire

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