MobileMe

Steve Jobs concedes that Apple botched the launch of the MobileMe service. Or, should I say, re-launch. It was .Mac before that, was and remains overpriced at $99 a year, and seems snakebitten and poorly conceptualized. Very, very far from being the highlight of the Apple experience.

Bump in the Night

SpaceX’s third attempt to launch its Falcon 1 booster was brought down by the same kind of separation failure as its second. A pretty basic hurdle not met. My prior point/concern about peer review stands. There’s a little too much groupthink going on there, I think. Nonetheless, here’s hoping they have a clean flight 4.

The Edwards Confession

In the end, so what? John Edwards was not going to be Obama’s veep; his non-endorsement of Obama prior to the North Carolina primary, when all the polls were predicting a big Obama victory, saw to that. Nor was he going to be a cabinet officer; they go through Senate confirmation and you can bet [...]