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Archive for April 2009

Nambu, a follow(up)

Last Friday, I tried out the free Twitter app Nambu. I can not recommend this software to anyone in its current state. Yes, they say it is beta software right up front, but there’s “beta” software and then there’s “BETA!!!*” software. This is the latter. While diagnosing a problem on my system, I took a [...]

Twittering in Nambu

I’ve seen the awkwardly-named Nambu mentioned a couple of times this past week, initially as an alternative iPhone twitter app, and then as a desktop app for OS X. I usually use TwitterFox and find it pretty reasonable so I haven’t felt too compelled to change. Many people use the popular TweetDeck application which hasn’t [...]

Battlestar Galactica in Retrospect

Like most other scifi nerds I know, I’ve been enthralled with Ron Moore and team’s reimagining of the classic tv show. An amazing cast and some of the best writing on tv and film surpassing typical genre fiction have made this an unforgettable experience. Now that they’ve finally wrapped it up, I have a few [...]