iPad has been receiving a lot of press, lately. Much of it is positive, although it has its detractors. Much of the negative press seems unwarranted and looks like a FUD campaign. Indeed, many of the hits to my “iPad? How bad?” post are from searches for the terms “iPad” and “bad” — people looking for ammunition; these people should fuddle duddle. One thing that seems to be brought up consistently is the inability for iPad to run multiple applications at once at the behest of the user.
Cur bloggo?
People keep blogs for many reasons. So why do I blog? I haven’t really figured that out, entirely, yet. All I know is that this blog is here to help with my research… somehow. It’s sometimes helpful just to write thoughts down. Feedback is useful for more mature thoughts. My recent blog posts are all related, if only tangentially, to my depth paper. I’ll start posting excerpts here, soon. Meanwhile, some of my blog posts will magically be transformed into my depth paper. I hope to update this blog on a weekly basis (instead of every other day as I have been for the last few weeks). We’ll see how that works out!
The Big Toolkit
When the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham Maslow
I used to think versatility and choice were always good things. In fact, I wrote something to that effect just over a week ago. Knowing what is out there means not having to reinvent the wheel. It means being able to select the right tool for the right job. When all you’ve got is a hammer, you end up writing messy 50-line snakes and ladders programs in assembly language when you could instead write the same thing in 7 elegant lines of Python. But?