November 2009
4 posts
I Suck at Email
No really, I’m terrible at responding to email. I blame my iPhone. I was bad at email before the iPhone, but now I’m absolutely horrible at it. Here’s the issue:
I get an email on my iPhone. iPhone pings to let me know.
I read the email. Email is now marked as read.
If I need to respond to the email, I don’t, because I’m on my iPhone and thus am probably too busy...
Invisible Localization
Or, How to Make Your App Friendly to Kids and Foreigners.
I’ve begun to notice a surprising trend among sales of my most popular iPhone app, Kineo: A large portion of the people buying it don’t live in the U.S. In my previous life as a Mac developer, barely 10% of the sales I made were outside the U.S, even on apps that were translated into other languages (Blitz, for example, is...
I changed the theme here because I got sick of the light-on-dark look of the last one. If images on posts before my “Smoking Bans” article are misaligned, that’s why.
Smoking Bans
I think I made some people hate me today with my disdain for the passage of a public smoking ban in St. Louis Country, MO. I didn’t feel like Twitter was an appropriate place to discuss why I opposed the ban, so I’m going to dump a lot of my thoughts on the matter here.
I don’t disagree that smoking is harmful to your health. I don’t disagree that secondhand smoke is...