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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07</title>
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Up in Berkeley today, I found a parking space right in front of Unit 3. Parking karma doesn&#8217;t get any better. #
At Doug Crockford&#8217;s talk on JavaScript and the DOM tonight, I won a copy of Doug&#8217;s book, JavaScript: The Good Parts!   #
RT @landay Go Yang! RT @yangli169 http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/03/search-your-android-phone-with-written.html #
@tessalau If you had Crockford&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/03/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21</title>
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Impressed with what I&#39;ve seen of Windows Phone 7 so far. http://bit.ly/yuCgw They should make a tablet with the UI! #
IBM Research releases CoScripter Reusable History for recording and sharing your web history http://bit.ly/coTWMr (via @jwnichls) #
I already know how cool CoScripter Reusable History is &#8212; I was there when @ianli wrote the first version. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/21/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-21/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14</title>
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Collection of iPad UI conventions pulled from frames of Apple&#8217;s demo videos. http://j.mp/daLakN (via @manukumar, @veen) #
RT @wattenberg a celebration of color (new piece with @viegasf): http://hint.fm/blog #
Must check this out: RT @landay nice talk by Paul Gross of Wash U. (C. Kelleher student) on code reuse in end-user programming tool #iui2010 #
Google Buzz: someone&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/14/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07</title>
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@landay I find iPhone&#8217;s UI still has more polish. Plus, I&#8217;m still in an AT&#38;T contract, and Nexus One doesn&#8217;t support AT&#38;T&#8217;s 3G frequencies. in reply to landay #
@j_lin Google Voice also avoids the annoyances of voicemail. in reply to j_lin #
Whatever happened to the opening crawl in Star Wars? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8O8YbnworA (via Gizmodo) #
Who says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/02/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-07/</link>
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		<title>A few thoughts about Apple&#8217;s iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day after the iPad was introduced, reactions in the tech world have been mixed, so I watched Apple&#8217;s announcement to see for myself.
There are quite a few features the iPad lacks: multitasking, a camera, Adobe Flash support, HDMI video output, USB ports, an SD slot, and so on. But remember that at first, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2010/01/29/a-few-thoughts-about-apples-ipad/</link>
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		<title>HCI well represented in this year&#8217;s TR35</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the HCI researchers in MIT Technology Review&#8217;s list of top 35 innovators under 35: Jeff Bigham, Jeff Heer, Shahram Izadi, Shwetak Patel, and Jamie Teevan. Represent!

Technology Review: TR35 2009

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		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/08/18/hci-well-represented-in-this-years-tr35/</link>
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		<title>Memory price drops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was cleaning out my papers, I came across some old receipts for various tech gadgets. While I&#8217;m used to high-tech stuff getting cheaper and cheaper, I still find it stunning how quickly prices have fallen for certain items:



Item
Purchase date
Purchase price
Current price
Annual depreciation rate
Annual overall inflation rate (CPI)


1 GB USB flash drive
Dec 16, 2005
$69.99
$7.99
&#8722;43.8%
+2.4%


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		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/05/23/memory-price-drops/</link>
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		<title>My new Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I did it: I&#8217;ve bought a 13&#8243; MacBook. Its size and portability won me over. So far, it&#8217;s been pretty smooth: I had no problems setting up my mail accounts in Mail, and it connected to my home wireless network effortlessly. On the other hand, I had to search the web to find out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/03/24/my-new-mac/</link>
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		<title>Comparing MacBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I am seriously considering getting a Mac, because I want to do something that Macs can do and PCs can’t: write iPhone apps. I’ve narrowed the possibilities down to two models: the 13″ MacBook or the 15″ MacBook Pro. The 15″ is 22% heavier (4.5 vs 5.5 lbs) but it also has 27% more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/03/13/comparing-macbooks/</link>
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		<title>Palm pulls one off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Palm announced its new smartphone, the Pre, and just as importantly, its long-awaited new software platform, WebOS. Reading the Engadget live blog on the announcement and watching videos on Gizmodo, I am quite impressed by what I saw. Not only is the hardware slick, the software is too. Wall Street liked it as well: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jameslin.name/2009/01/08/palm-pulls-one-off/</link>
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