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11/19 If you’ve ever had to carve the Thanksgiving turkey, this will be funny — Yes, every year some wag writes a funny article about carving a turkey, but this one is really funny! Among the many chuckles: > All conversation dies when he picks up his weapons. The festive warmth that filled the room moments earlier is replaced by a merciless judgment that records every failure of knife work like points lost in a troubled double axel at the winter Olympics. From the Boston Globe: Carving out his niche – The Boston Globe
11/16 Code Monkey: Funny — Came across Jonathan Coulton, the songwriter who embarked on a ridiculous challenge to write a song each week, for a whole year. Quite a crazy thing, but he pulled it off.  > “Thing a Week is a project I’ve been working on since September 2005 in which I record and post a song a week as a podcast....
11/04 Not sure if this is a good thing… — For those of you who avidly follow Curaçao politics, yes, all two of you, and I know who you are, do you think this is a good thing? I am not so sure… > “The Dutch government has signed an agreement granting qualified autonomy to the territories of Curacao and St. Maarten, paving the way for the formal end of the Netherlands Antilles.” (from Radio Jamaica) We’ll see how it develops.
10/30 Experiences creating new BlogBridge screencasts — Over on our new BlogBridge site, we’ve been working on a new set of Screencasts. We discovered various problems with what we had done before and thought, let’s try to make things better (as they say at Philips.) I thought I’d share my stream of consciousness notes from that experience. - Wow, thos...
10/27 TSA has no clothes — Does creating something that demonstrates that a security scheme doesn’t work make you a suspect yourself? Does pointing at it from your blog make you of questionable character? I suppose you might even wonder about clicking on the link below. Does that say you are a bad person? I hope not. Check this out, it’s pretty insterezsting and instructive! Chris’s NWA Boarding Pass Generator
10/24 [GEEKY] BostonPHP Meeting: Ajax Update —
“Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to move the web from its old clunky “send it all back the server for an update” into the thick client “desktop” feel the average computer user has come to expect.” Check out the next meeting of BostonPHP, October 25, 6:30pm, at IBM/Lotus in Cambridge. Get meeting details here. Technorati Tags: PHP
10/22 Pop!Tech: Thanks for the memories — Well it’s over and I am getting ready to head back to real life. Pop!Tech remains my favorite conference (and not just because I can drive here from my house.) It’s hard to capture what it’s like but if you are interested, here are some links that could give you a flavor. Thanks to all the diligent ...
10/19 Pop!Tech: why do I feel inadequate? — Ok, Pop!Tech is a wonderful conference, already, and I am learning and stimulated and all that. But why, oh why, is everyone an author, thinker, serial entrepreneur, extraordinary, world renowned, and inimitable? Inventor, artist, composer, musician, educator, philosopher. And these are not the speakers, these are the people sitting next to me and in line with me in the bathroom. Yikes! Technorati Tags: poptech
10/18 Interesting analysis of accuracy — Bloggers and others are notoriously  obcessed with metrics: how many hits, what’s my rank etc. As a result there are numerous services which try to analyze sites and blogs etc, to help measure this. Not insignificantly, a site’s revenue potential is tied closely to this as well.  [Seomoz.org has put...
10/12 The answer is not a better RSS Aggregator, continued — Yesterday’s post drew some interesting comments and emails. Several people wondered what the heck I was talking about. More about that later. First: A couple of good analogies were raised. Isn’t this idea a lot like Digg? Or like Top Ten Sources? For me the Top Ten ...
10/11 The answer is not a better RSS Aggregator — Before I discuss this new product idea I am turning over in my mind, I want to say a few things about why I keep working in this area. I mean there are so many people working on aggregators, and after all Microsoft is building it into IE, and it’s been in FireFox for a while. Why bother? I’ve thoug...