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Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. In the nearly three years I’ve been writing for Deep Thought, I’ve put on my pundit hat and made a number of predictions. So how’d I do? Let’s just say this: I won’t be starting a psychic hotline anytime soon--unless I want to be like Miss Cleo, that is. That’s one career path I’m not planning to follow, that’s for sure.

But I digress.

To start things off, let’s look at a classic prediction of mine from May 2005:

Also, there’s the issue of creating a user interface for these super phones that store contacts, send e-mail, take pictures, play movies, music, wash your car, make you breakfast, and do your taxes for you. It is very hard to make a decent single user interface that can handle all sorts of functions, especially considering the small size of cell phone screens. It has the potential to become an unusable mess, or, as Steve Jobs puts it, a “tortured user interface.” If anyone could pull it off though, it would be Apple. I don’t see Apple going in that direction anytime soon, however.

I got that first part right! Apple came out with…
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Can you say why you all are not participating in the “Intel Inside” program of putting the stickers on your new or previous Macs?

--Bob Keefe, as recorded by Macworld

Okay, let’s admit it, that wasn’t exactly the best question to ask at the time. I mean, Steve Jobs is in your midst; I’m sure there are better questions to ask--or at least better ways to frame it. Then again, somehow I don’t think I would have been able to think of a better question. Actually, I take it back: I would ask Jobs why Apple has yet to enter the fast-growing ultraportable laptop market segment, especially considering the excellent industrial design that Apple has shown in the past (and yet they can’t get a laptop under five pounds?). It’s not an amazingly tough question; it may not land me a job on 60 Minutes, but it sure is one question that I would sure like an answer to, and I am sure I am not alone. But I digress.

So here’s the question I would like to pose to you, our readers:

If you had the opportunity to ask Steve Jobs one question--any question--what would it be? Would you…
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I’ve been having a rather interesting discussion with someone going by the name of Penguin Pete. He wrote a rather interesting blog post last month talking about how Ubuntu is making ground because it is similar to Windows and that makes it appealing to people who are leaving Windows. This does make sense, I certainly think that Ubuntu is one of the most promising Linux distros. Pete then makes a rather true comment about how users leaving Windows are going somewhere and that that somewhere is going to be the next desktop revolution.

Now many Linux users believe that Linux is that somewhere. While I agree that Linux is making quite a lot of ground in the desktop market, and rightly so, I don’t feel that Linux is where the next desktop revolution is currently taking place. As I have previously showed, both Linux and the Mac are gaining market share in the desktop space, at the expense of Windows. In the past 2 years Linux and OS X have almost doubled in market share. The only thing that is putting the Mac ahead is that it had over 10 times the market share of Linux on the desktop 2…
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Résumés. To anyone with a job, just the word can conjure up all kinds of emotions: flashbacks from your first crappy McJorb, anticipation before an interview at MultiMillions Incorporated, and pride in all one’s accomplishments. As everyone knows, a good résumé can be the key to landing a successful career, but designing such a knock-em-dead document can be quite a dilemma. It is a battle I have struggled with on numerous occasions.

Unfortunately, my earlier résumé designs are either in absentis or are too embarrassingly bad to show publicly. Our adventure therefore begins approximately 6 months ago in September of last year, after I lost my job with the California Relay Service and started looking again. I started by downloading one of the (few) résumé templates Microsoft offers for Word (for Mac) and modifying it to my liking.

Version the first

This is what I came up with for my first version, at least my first in some time. It took me a couple days to polish, and it was pretty close to the original template. It looked pretty good, presenting relevant information in a straightforward and readable manner in beautiful Cochin 13pt. Unfortunately, it was a bit cluttered, with…
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