Archive for March, 2009

Money Ain’t Everything

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Boy, Facebook sure knows how to make money.

Taking advan­tage of the fact that people like to receive gifts, Facebook has this feature whereby anyone can send a ‘gift’ to any of their friends. A gift, it turns out, consists of a little icon with a personal message attached to it. And it costs real money to send one.

Ever had someone tell you that instead of buying you a gift for your birthday, they were giving it away as charity? That wasn’t…fun, was it? Now imagine that instead of charity, they gave it away to Facebook. Here is some cash Facebook, so that my dearest friend gets a silly little icon as a token of your appre­ci­a­tion. Lame.

The Software Update Paradox

Friday, March 13th, 2009

I like to keep my software up-to-date, so I sync it with the repos­i­tory every day, and see if there’s anything that needs updating.

And yet, I don’t like the fact that it takes time to perform the update, or that there is a chance that my stable system could be broken by the change, or that a package may fail to build.

So I run the update command, hoping that there’s nothing new.