Sam’s random musings

SqlHtml:

SQL HTML? Now you’re talking! Who needs an N-Tier architecture when you just generate your entire website in Stored Procedures? It’s real easy and efficient, as Nicolai A. Kollner’s colleague demonstrates:

Got to love this use of stored procedures…

(Via The Daily WTF.)

The pocket doodler

Contained in a smart plastic case with its own pencil, the Pocket Doodler consists of 100 different sheets, each with a variety of conundrums, mind boggling questions, unfinished pictures and plain silly tasks for the user to complete.

A fun little item for killing time…

Bug Bash: A couple years ago, I was helping brainstorm the design for a new e-mail feature. The idea was that whenever you’d receive a new e-mail, a little window would pop up on your computer screen alerting you to this fact, no matter what program you happened to be working in at the time. Now, no matter what you were doing, you could stop to check on the mail. My main interest in such a feature was that there be an easy way to turn it off. We live in an era of “all notification, all the time.” You’ve got mail. You’ve got an instant message. Your friend is now online. You have a meeting in 15 minutes. You have 3 voice mail messages. Britney Spears’s new album is now available (what OK button from hell did I click during some random install to agree to get notified o

Another fine insight by the man famous for Woop woop woop

(Via Hans Bjordahl.)

MacSlash | The Tipping Point:

The Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses. The graphic illustrates how Apple has created a bridge from high-end to low-end, with price structures that ultimately are leading to rapidly increased adoption of the platform by PC users who have been enticed by low-cost iPods.

An old graphic but does show the area of growth that apple is targeting now.

(Via Mac Slash.)