• "The Chemist" Dileep Rao excellent analysis of Inception http://bit.ly/aom1VB #
• Companies are astroturfing reviews of their own iPhone apps on App Store. Not surprising, but disappointing. #
• "A new kind of grammars that can produce the empty language is designed in this book." Indeed. http://amzn.to/bQWktb #
• Oh …

• Manhattanhenge is today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge #
• I'm guessing every attendee at PDC10 gets hardware running Windows SlatePad Foundation Services. #
• The lazy plotting of WW2: http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html #
• I write like Dan Brown when blogging, Raymond Chandler for publication: http://iwl.me/s/fe11a92f #
• Even …

“50 cents income, 51 cents expenses: Poor man. 50 cents income, 49 cents expenses: Rich man.” -- Mark Twain ^[1]^

Previously, we saw that the average paid iPhone app generates a little under \$6,000 and that you have a 50-50 chance of making something considerably less than that. Of course …

• Apparently no one came in to work on their weekend or day off in order to review my iPhone app. Someone get Steve Jobs on the phone! #
• Alien vs. Ninja http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_QC2fatXQ (Man, you just know they're going to ruin the book...) #
• Happy aphelion …

I took this shot Thursday night up at Mauna Kea. I thought I was doing really well with the photography, but when I got home and imported the images, all of them were blurred. There wasn't any wind, and I thought the scope was polar-aligned well enough, so for the …

My tutorial on the oft-confusing world of iPhone ad hoc distribution:

http://www.knowing.net/index.php/monotouch-ad-hoc-distribution-tutorial/

““Sir, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake.”” ^[1]^

The biggest milkshake in the software world is Microsoft’s. For 20 years, if you wanted to make money by writing retail software, you did …

My most recent column for SD Times questions the rationality of Apple having a higher market capitalization that Microsoft.

“You cannot get rich selling your own time.” -- Scott Adams^[1]^

You can, however, make great fortunes selling things. When I was a kid, there was a girl in school who was heir to a pencil fortune; every time you took a standardized test and filled in one of those …

You may have noticed a dramatic shift in my online presence over the past few months. At the beginning of May, I more-or-less shut down Twitter, flushed the cache from my RSS reader, and stopped watching Red Sox games on MLB Live (well... mostly). This was in service to the …