You’ve seen and heard of Twitter, haven’t you? If not, congratulations for being immune to the latest Fad 2.0. Other than the occasional “I just had a delicious hamburger”, many if not most of my tweets are an announcement (read traffic bait) of one thing or another, usually including a link. Why would I subscribe to that? Maybe I have the wrong kind of friends. I think if your twitter friends are really people who are actual friends (Friends 1.0) and not quote friends unquote (Friends 2.0) then you might actually care about them having a delicious hamburger. But do you know that actually has 350 friends (1.0?)
Check out this post from Boing Boing: ** David Pescovitz**: Physicians are now removing appendixes by entering the body through the mouth. The procedure, called Natural Orifice Tran...
Check out this post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): > This simple utility allows you "to save and restore your window placement and view options via Window Sets." You can have different Window Sets for differe...
Lately, for some crazy reason, I’ve found myself, multiple times, in Toronto, Canada, and Willemstad Curaçao. My Sprint phone doesn’t work in either place. As luck would have it, my Sprint contract is about to expire and so I am trying to figure out whether I should change carriers. If you are in th...
Here’s a column that I can really relate to, and a topic that I’ve written about more than once before. > “Computers would be nothing without programs to run on them, so why do we spend so much time drooling over our hardware — physical bits and pieces — and so little over the software that makes the bits and pieces do what we want them to? And why are we so stingy about paying for software?” (from Blind to Bargains, Loose Wire) Read the whole article, it’s really interesting!
Check out this post from BuzzMachine: ** The interview is outmoded and needs to be rethought. There’s no better demonstration of this than the recriprocal snipes we’ve been seeing from and around [Wired]...
I’ve been setting up a new Windows Vista notebook over the last few days for use by a non technical user. What a basket case. What a disaster. And I am referring to Vista not the user 🙂 I’ve been mentally working on a blog post titled either “Has Microsoft Lost its mojo” or “Has Microsoft Jumped...
Ok it’s not exactly about that, but the answer to that question is answered. Check out this post from Schneier on Security: > More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages. Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling. I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data. (from: A Security Market for Lemons)
Check out this post from BuzzMachine: ** "[snip…]At the Online Politics conference a few weeks ago, Joe Trippi said, “Every one of these candidates is going to get caught in a macaca moment.” They will mess up. They will...
Check out this post from Lifehacker: > TVShows offers a Mac-only take on the previously mentioned, cross platform TED (Torrent Episode Downloader), but with a somewhat improved and simplified interface. If you want to turn your computer into your own little cable box, TVShows looks like a simple way that anyone could manage. (from: Download of the Day: TVShows (Mac))
I just had the pleasure of going through the initial set up of Windows Vista on a brand new HP notebook. Here are some of my impressions: - It’s pretty, with translucent window title bars and colors. Somewhat mac-like, but really the Windows XP influence is just below the surface. Listening to Mic...
This is a topic that I’ve gotten somewhat interested in. If you search for Ruby Domain Specific Languages in google, you will find a ton of hits. Here are two that I particularly liked: - Building a DSL in Ruby, Part I - Building a DSL in Ruby, Part II
I love Craig’s List. If you’ve heard of it (!) and are interested in online factoids, you’ll may be interested in this post from Compete Blog: ** "Analysis of eight major American cities shows erotic services consistently garners the highest number of individual visitors for February – almost always twice as many as the next ranking category, averaging 265,000 people per city." (from**: Craigslist’s Dirty Little Secret)
Read this essay describing the feelings of someone who will soon be a first time parent. It sounds like many of the things I was thinking when I was in the same boat. Check out this post from furia log: ** [snip…] Not...
I sometimes feel like I don’t multi-task quite as well as "everyone else". So I was interested in this post from 43 Folders: > Yesterday’s New York Times front page ran an article pulling together the results o...
I don’t want to label myself as a fuddie-duddie. I keep thinking back to this talk at ETech. Quinn Norton is a engaging and funny speaker who talked about “body hacking” (click to see the slides) I learned things l...
I’m at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, aka “ETech”… really interesting. One ‘trick’ that just occurred to me is working well. When confronted with a series of sessions in the same time slot, instead of just going by the title of the talk, a qu...
Is this a sign of the times? President Bush is on TV right now giving a speech about why he’s right about Iraq. To bolster his case, he quotes two bloggers located in Baghdad! (Jokingly: “yeah, they have bloggers in Baghdad too, heh, heh”) Of course he doesn’t cite the sources or the links so I can’t tell anything about where the flowery quotes come from. Still it’s a sign of the stature that blogs are getting in the public discourse.