Head fake

How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction.

"In recent years, scientists have developed a novel theory of what falters in the depressed brain. Instead of seeing the disease as the result of a chemical imbalance, these researchers argue that the brain's cells are shrinking and dying."

Interesting stuff.

"If you just sit on your couch, then steroids aren't going to be very effective," he says. "Antidepressants are the same way: if you want the drug to work for you, then you have to work for the drug."

The latest Croshaw

YC's reviews just keep getting more entertaining. As long as I've got these, who needs to play the actual games to have a good time?

Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail

More Vista

I just read Vista Annoyances Resolved and have to post it as a follow-up to my previous post. As well as providing a thorough analysis of Vista issues, Koroush touches on the similarities between the launches of Vista and the (now) praised XP.

...Windows XP was subject to the exact same types of criticisms and concerns as Windows Vista, many of them totally baseless or sensationalist as we now know.

I do love Mac, but I also love busting of myths.

Go Vista

I use a Mac at home and love it. I use Vista at work and on my HTPC and I don't mind it. If you've got a newer machine Vista is better than XP. For various reasons Vista has received a bad reputation. Microsoft knows they shit the bed on Vista marketing and the Mojave Experiment is leading their response. Unfortunately, I agree that it's bad science, and bad marketing.

However, more important to me is that despite what some people would have you believe, Vista is doing well. Microsoft has sold over 180 million licenses as of July 2008 and sales will likely accelerate. That makes me happy since every new Vista user is one less user of IE6, the bane of my profession.

So please, if you can't go Mac, go Vista. If you can't go Vista, at least go Firefox. Either way, you save a developer.

Religulous

I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie

Back from Toronto

I'd like to thank everyone who came to my presentation at Agile2008 in Toronto. The highlight for me was the closing keynote by Alan Cooper.

Linux Desktop

I recently made my latest attempt at really using Linux. This time it was openSUSE 10.3. Due to my Aperture addiction I won't be replacing my iMac anytime soon, but I was hoping to have a nice laptop for web development and entertainment on the road. The result? Linux is still far too much annoyance and frustration and that laptop is back to XP. I have to agree with the Fireball:

It’s common for the Linux hacker set to poke fun at Windows’s wizard-style configuration tools, but the entire desktop Linux user interface is a pale imitation of Windows — much, much more of a rip-off of Windows than Windows ever was of the Mac. But the resemblance is merely cosmetic; functionally, desktop Linux is nowhere near as usable as Windows.