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Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer

October 22, 2010
by ianforrester
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Welcome to Steve Jobs distortation field, where open is closed

Steve jobs is a tricky figure, theres no doubt about that. When he talks, you can feel the distortion field emerging from everything chosen word he uses. As I’ve always said Steve Jobs and Apple are against choice and therefore … Continue reading

August 1, 2010
by ianforrester
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dozo yoroshiku: welcome to the open web

My friends keep asking why I don’t use facebook? And I always respond with some quite crushing comments about the walled garden of facebook and the mentality of facebook users. Anyway once we get past that they usually ask me … Continue reading

July 2, 2006
by ianforrester
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Openness in data formats

Tantek wrote this thought provoking entry about data formats and openness. Which I can't help but kind of agree on and disagree on. So first his entry. ASCII is dependable. Project Gutenberg insists on publishing their e-books as plain ASCII … Continue reading