LoomisBoy
The personal journal of technology journalist and conference speaker Randall S. Newton.

Currently on Techmeme: The Nasdaq falls 6%+, with Apple down 7%+, Nvidia down 8%+, and Meta down 7%+, as the White House confirms that Trump's tariffs on China now total 145% Sources: Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or up to 1.5M units, to the US from India; a source says Apple “wanted to beat the tariff” A look at the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Didn't You People Get the Memo? A Short Rant on Punctuation Order
If I have to edit one more article where the writer puts a close quotation mark BEFORE a period, I will find one of those marshmallow goop guns from Bugsy Malone and do some serious mayhem.
Dammit, Americans ALWAYS put a period BEFORE the close quote mark. Brits do whatever Brits do, and I don't care. There are reasons we fought two wars with those mugs.

You did WHAT to your sentence, mister?
Dammit, Americans ALWAYS put a period BEFORE the close quote mark. Brits do whatever Brits do, and I don't care. There are reasons we fought two wars with those mugs.

You did WHAT to your sentence, mister?
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
At Least He Won't Use the Photo for Blackmail
Colleague Ralph Grabowski was so taken with my new bargain sports coat (100% silk, $29 not $25 as reported, bright "melon" in color) that I wore at a Dassault Systemes event earlier this week that he published a photo of it on his blog.