ZHONG GUO REN

I came across a really interesting blog entry this morning, referencing a South Park episode alongside various talks given by Alan Kay in the past 2 decades about our present day computing culture. It’s a must-read.

The culture of “air guitar”: http://tekkie.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/the-culture-of-air-guitar/

That got me thinking, the people that we all think of as the “really good programmers”, are they Jimi Hendrix

or just Thad Jarvis?

I read up on CALL/CC and DYNAMIC-WIND last week after I got my ass seriously kicked by Edwin’s terminal code. I think I’m starting to grok it now, but I’m not sure if I know how to write that code all by myself.

I sure hope this is not just more Air Guitar gesturing.

So I was watching some clips from Job’s WWDC keynote yesterday, and I saw that the iPhone 3G will be released in Hong Kong, one of the 77 countries (markets?) where Apple will be selling the new phone.

That’s all well and good, but let’s look at the close up:

Hong Kong island, Kowloon, and Lantau Island are totally missing.

For those not in the know, here’s a map of Hong Kong:

It’s disappointing that even a supposedly ‘classy’ joint like Apple gets simple things like this (ahem, geography) wrong.

Another case in point: CNN and France.