Microthoughts

Short thoughts on things

Adobe Air; Cross Platform?

Shouldn't someone use the Trade Descriptions Act on Adobe for describing Air as 'cross platform'? Its about as cross platform as connections between Waterloo and Paddington. Got it working again on my 64 bit Linux machine, ...eventually... I wouldn't bother but my favourite Twitter Client and BBC iPlayer use it.

'Adobe - taking you back to the Mud Hut era of computing.'

Soft on Crime

I can imagine certain UK newspapers in AD 33... Complaining that the Crucifixion was 'Soft on Crime', lamenting the past mistakes of that 'soft liberal' Herod and making references to the involvement of Frankincense smuggling foreigners.

(with thanks to Tas Kay and Alistair Brook)

Prestigious

If you need to say an award is 'Prestigious' it obviously isn't, or at the very least its also 'Obscure'

Added 22 Jan 2012

Solutions

There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

—H L Mencken, 1917

Added 5 Apr 2012