Month: December 2010

  • bubble graph stats

    Love them bubble graphs:

    My first custom app project was an executive information management console for pharmaceutical wholesaler SUN-S in Sendai, Japan, circa 1987, plotting their market position over time vs competitors using revenue for size of bubble, market share for x axis and growth rate for y axis.

  • Two wheels better than four in Tokyo

    Excellent introduction to cycling in Tokyo by CNN’s Christopher Johnson:

    Two wheels better than four in Tokyo | CNNGo.com.

    As many of the photos illustrating the article suggest, cycling downtown on the weekends is marvelous.

    If only the sento would start catering to cyclists who just need a quick shower.

  • Apple’s appetite for flash memory

    Thanks to the success of flash memory-based iPod, iPhone, iPad and now MacBook Air product lines, Apple has become the largest buyer of NAND flash semiconductors among computer manufacturers, and among the top three buyers across all industries. If the remaining MacBook models are redesigned as Steve Jobs hinted they would around flash storage and no optical drives, and further tuning improves already impressive performance, the next generation of MacBook Pros are going to sell very well.

    Less expensive, much lighter, considerably faster and with a cool new App Store built in, the 2011 MacBook lineup should significantly accelerate OS X market share gains.