Apple has restored fairness to a system that I felt was being abused. The App Store, which allows users to browse and download Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, [no longer accepts ratings from those who haven’t used the Apps before](http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/26/apple-removes-old-non-customer-reviews-from-app-store/). I noticed the loophole in the system myself, when reading a review about …
Month: February 2009
The time has come for my patient, long-standing readers, who know me fairly well, to come up with an interesting job title and a tangible, realistic description of what I’d be doing. If you can be even more specific, feel free to suggest suitable organisations (profit or nonprofit) where I can best contribute through my …
A couple weeks ago in church, we were told that a special speaker was coming to preach at the 6pm service at a certain date on ‘The Worthy Woman of Business’. I perked up. That might give me a better sense of what I should be doing with myself, post-MBA. I jotted down the date …
I was about to hit the sack but was jolted by the news that [Chelsea just sacked Scolari](http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/02/09/chelsea.scolari/index.html). There are numerous academic journals that discuss the efficacy of sacking football managers on the basis of improving performance. Some look for a correlation between sackings and performance with inconclusive results while others report that [stability is …
So, just in case some of my friends missed my change of status on Facebook: I’m attached. It happened last weekend. And it feels Right! Let’s call him R, for short. Two of my girl friends were particularly excited for me, since they had met R at the same dinner. Turns out that R and …
Somehow, in [less than a year](http://vantan.org/archives/2008/03/returning_my_ma.php) I’ve managed to fill up my MacBook Pro’s 250 GB hard drive. In a relatively short period of time I’ve accumulated a lot of photos and videos, and as a student I’ve saved lots of notes onto my hard drive. My MacBook Pro got sluggish a few months ago …