Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2007-08-10

• Apple (UK and Ireland)
  Apple’s UK site has finally been updated to match the look of the parent US site
  (tags: apple uk)
• Blade Runner (video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Blade Runner was a fantastic game. Still have a physical copy somewhere.
  (tags: bladerunner gaming pointandclick fmv adventure westwoodstudios)
• AppleInsider | Apple files for external audio blending, wide touchpad patents
  (tags: apple patent hci interaction touchpad audio blending mixing external laptop multitouch)
• Comera
  (tags: arg technology location gaming scotland edinburgh herriotwatt comera mobileacuity)
• Raph’s Website » GoPets and avatar rights
  Raph predicts: “over the next few years, more and more services will find themselves pushes towards adopting some form of the Avatar Rights document”
  (tags: avatar rights digital gaming via:raphkoster)
• The Stage / Blogs / TV Today / Are TV shows finally coming to iTunes UK?
  The Stage’s opinion on download tv in the UK
  (tags: download tv drm itunesuk apple tvshows media streaming renting)
• Wonderland: City of Thamesis
  Alice on City of Thamesis – yum, alternate Londons
  (tags: wonderland alicetaylor cityofthamesis interactive graphicnovel arg gaming media episodic entertainment)
• Automated domain snapshots – DreamHost
  Hat-tip to Yoz.
  (tags: dreamhost backup snapshot automatic weekly daily hourly)
• WordPress › Support » Safari Issues & WordPress
  Safari 3 beta doesn’t work properly with WordPress’s visual editor (loses paragraph formatting/line breaks for one)
  (tags: safari apple wordpress visual editor bug)
• Lotus Improv – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Everyone’s fawning over Numbers. I want Improv.
  (tags: spreadsheet next history software apple lotus improv numbers osx)
• The Triforce » Blog Archives » Monica Update
  Oooh, I want to see this
  (tags: via:wonderland play social internet teen mixtape monica triforce edinburgh fringe)
• stevemullis[dot]com: CPDRC, the Prison of Dance.
  CPDRC – Thriller, Radio Gaga and More
  (tags: cpdrc penal dancing rehabilitation prison thriller michaeljackson video dance musicvideo music)
• .:Brand Tarrot:.
  (tags: johngrant brandtarot branding marketing communication)

I’m with you on Improv. It was only a couple of years ago that I realized that that ugly hard to use thing called pivot tables in Excel was so elegantly done in Improv.

Improv made sense to me as a spreadsheet. Excel has never made sense to me.