President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that Nigeria withdraws from international competition for two years to enable the country to put its house in order.
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that Nigeria withdraws from international competition for two years to enable the country to put its house in order.

If I only had one finger on each hand, I’d leave out unnecessary letters too!
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
Don’t miss the blog post about the rationale behind the plugin.
I’m a principled person. Apple’s offended my principles. Consequently, I’ve decided to abandon iPhone development. I won’t work in this ask-permission environment any longer.
A bold move, especially considering the following:
Mobile Orchard is — well, was — how I earned a living. Teaching iPhone dev classes, plus a little from advertisers and our holiday bundle, provided enough income for me to keep my kids and wife warm, clothed and fed. So I need a new source of income.
This week’s Apple news are definitely tearing me apart.
Why the hell not.
Meanwhile, lots of social media types are talking about brands and branding as if these were new and hip things. They’re not. They’re heavy and old. We need to move on, folks. Think of something human instead.
When a friend came back from SXSW recently, we talked about how, at the show, it was “social every fucking thing there is.” The term SEFTTI was thus coined.
Jim Hoskins dissects AdLib, the Javascript library Apple uses in its iPad-optimized version of the iPhone reference library (you need to be using an iPad or the iPad emulator to see the correct version). This is presumably the iPad equivalent of PastryKit, Apple’s UI Javascript library for iPhone.
After extracting the JavaScript and de-minifying it, my suspicions were confirmed. Apple was manually reading the touch events, calculating the inertia of the scrolling, and manually drawing the scroll bars. It was incredible that it worked so smoothly in the browser.