512 Pixels

I’ve written my “end of the year” post a couple of times now, but was unhappy with it each time.

That frustration has been a thread through my year. Don’t get me wrong, the year actually went pretty well, but I just have a hard time with a lot of things these days.

In March, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. I’m making progress in my life, and taking care of myself for the first time since Josiah was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, but I’m learning this battle is very often a few steps forward, then a few steps back.

The people in my life — both in the “meatspace” world and the online one — have been incredible this year. Without my wife, kids and friends, I don’t want to think about what would happen.

That’s where you lovely people come in, too. Thanks for reading my stuff. It’s always flattering when I see numbers grow month after month. Your time means a lot to me.

I don’t know what 2012 has in store. I suspect it will be much like 2011, just hopefully not as dark.

I’ll see you then, nerds.

So, so good.

The Telegraph:

Charlie Le Quesne was trying out the iPhone 4S at a Tesco store in Coventry when it told him: “Shut the f \ up, you ugly t**.”

While I’d be horrified if this happened to one of my kids, as a nerd, I have to chuckle at someone setting Siri up like this.

The fact that Tesco is sending the iPhone back to Apple for “diagnostic tests” is even more hilarious.

via @imyke

Sounds like Todd Wasserman maybe has a hunting buddy with a helicopter.

Speaking of podcasts, Brett was kind enough to have me on as a guest for episode five of his new podcast. Here’s the description:

This week discussion ranges from tattoo inventory and selling stuff online to telling your kids that Santa doesn’t exist. Brett and Stephen recall their experiences of drinking on airplanes and Myke interrogates Stephen about the alcohol of his homeland.

It was the most fun I’ve had behind a microphone in a while.

This week, Myke and I discussed unnatural disasters that took innocent lives on both sides of the pond.

Thomas Brand:

At this time the iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, and it may be the most popular camera in the world. But Apple wasn’t always a huge success in photography. Starting back in 1994 Apple released the first line of digital cameras aimed at consumers, and failed miserably at gaining brand recognition or marketshare. Just like the Newton MessagePads, released at the same time, Apple’s QuickTake line of digital cameras were a series of products developed before their time.

Make it stop.

I’m using Marcelo Somers’ helpful script to keep a local copy of my Pinboard bookmarks. I don’t use ifttt.com, but having my Pinboard bookmarks as an XML file in my Dropbox sure feels good. (I’m just manually firing the curl command at this point. I’ll get around to automating it with CRON at some point.)

If you aren’t using Pinboard — or if you are, but haven’t paid for the archiving — you really are missing out on a great web service.

Holy crap.

Watts Martin:

I speak of it in the past tense because, as you may not know, MacRabbit has decided that there will be no standalone CSSEdit 3, and instead we should all shift to use Espresso, their all around web editor.

What a shame. I’ve used CSSEdit for years, and really like it.

Jonathan S. Geller:

I have been told that Sprint will be getting the iPhone 5 — yes the real iPhone 5, not the iPhone 4S — as an exclusive. And it will be a 4G WiMAX device. AT&T and Verizon would launch the iPhone 4S and get the iPhone 5 some time in the first quarter of next year as an LTE device. Globally, the iPhone 5 might be available as a 4G HSPA+ device.

This rumor was so outlandish, I had it in OmniFocus today to re-post it.