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June 2005
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2005-06-16
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2005-06-15
What if we all vote on the truth?
Read more →A couple of interesting related articles on facts and non-facts:
“Wikipedia is one of the Web’s most popular sites. I asked a teenager if he understood that it carries a disclaimer; Wikipedia “can’t guarantee the validity of the information found here.” “That’s just so that no one will sue them,” he shrugged. As to the content: “It’s all true, mostly.” (from: New York Times)
And in a related story, the LA Times is turning their editorial page into a wiki. As Jon Stewart would say: “Huuh?”:
“• Watch next week for the introduction of “wikitorials” — an online feature that will empower you to rewrite Los Angeles Times editor...
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2005-06-14
Stay hungry, stay foolish: Steve Jobs on dropping out
Read more →I came across what is supposed to be the transcript of a commencement speech given by Steve Jobs (my hero 🙂 on June 14th. It’s certainly resonates with me:
“You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years ...
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2005-06-13
No Comment
States Ranked: Smartest to Dumbest. No Comment.
Technorati Tags: interesting
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2005-06-12
Looks like I’ve beat comment spam — for now!
Read more →You’ve heard me complain about comment spam before haven’t you? Comment Spam is when mysterious robot software attacks my blog and floods it with fake comments?
I came across this handy little document from Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, the Blog software I use: “Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam“:
“This document describes how malicious or unwanted comments (‘comment spam’) affect weblogs, the techniques spammers use to abuse weblogs, and the tactics that can be used to prevent and defend against these attacks. Also included is a revie...
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2005-06-10
Fascinating history of Wikipedia
Read more →If you are interested and fascinated with the Wikipedia, how it came to be, why it is the way it is, there’s an absolutely gripping account of the history and origins on Slashdot:
“An impassioned debate has been raging, particularly since about the summer of 2004, about the merits of Wikipedia and the future of free online encyclopedias. This discussion has not benefitted by much detailed, accurate consideration of the origins of Wikipedia and of its parent project, Nupedia.
But it seems to me that those origins are very important — crucial, even — to forming a proper judgment of the current state and best future direction o...
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2005-06-09
Identity theft scam?
Read more →What would you do if you received two letters from a collection agency saying that you owed $5,000 to a firm with whom you’ve never had an account with?
I ignored it and the following letter, immediately smelling a rat.
What would you do further, if you got a call from that agency, and you told them that you had never heard of them, and that you had never had an account with the firm?
I told them to go to hell.
And then they asked if I was willing to just verify some information. Like the last 4 digits of my social security number.
I told them, even more forcefully, to go to hell.
And then they asked whether I would be willing to confirm the last 4 digits if the...
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2005-06-08
Creepy article!
Get this:
“A man’s severed leg – with a white Adidas sneaker still attached – plummeted from the sky onto a garage roof and bounced into the backyard of a Long Island home yesterday morning.”
Technorati Tags: interesting, gross
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2005-06-06
Good stuff from Paul Graham
Read more →If you work with software developers you’ll appreciate these two pieces by Paul Graham, author of Hackers and Painters, a book that I also recommend heartily.
He always has interesting things to say:
“I once claimed that nerds were unpopular in secondary school mainly because they had better things to do than work full-time at being popular. Some said I was just telling people what they wanted to hear. Well, I’m now about to do that in a spectacular way: I think undergraduates are undervalued.” (From “Hiring is obsolete“)
I also came across this ...
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2005-06-05
[BLOGBRIDGE] Bloeb: A new kind of web site for BlogBridge
Read more →We’ve been experimenting with a switcharoo of the BlogBridge web site – a major overhaul conceived and prototyped by Francois. (Thanks!) The new site will be going to production tomorrow, but you get to take a look while we are putting the finishing touches on it.
What kind of a switcharoo? Well, instead of a conventional site that happened to contain a blog, we jokingly call this a ‘bloeb‘ (blog+web) site.
You’ve seen web sites with blogs in them, and you’ve seen blogs with non blog content attached to them, right? Well here we have a full hybrid, with a traditional navigation tree on the left and a bloggis...
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2005-06-04
These look like interesting books
I just saw references to these two books. I am putting them on my reading list.
Rebuilt: How becoming part computer made me more human – Michael Chorost.
Is Bill Cosny Right? – Michael Eric Dyson
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2005-06-04
Good article about software design
Just add this one to your reading list:
“(XP) challenges many of the common assumptions about software development. Of these one of the most controversial is its rejection of significant effort in up-front design, in favor of a more evolutionary approach.
To its detractors this is a return to “code and fix” development – usually derided as hacking. To its fans it is often seen as a rejection of design techniques (such as the UML), principles and patterns. Don’t worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear.” (From “Is Design Dead?”)”
Thought-provoking.
Technorati Tags: software, recommended, technical
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2005-06-04
[GEEK] Good bit about code commenting
Another neat link I was shown:
“Ever since I was a wee programmer, I’ve been reminded that good code has a lot of comments. After all, code will be read many more times than it will be written. ” (from “Write Sweet-smelling Comments“)
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2005-06-04
Dan Bricklin doing some interesting podcasting
I just came off listening to Dan Bricklin’s first podcast, an interview with Linda Hamel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about patents, intellectual property and open source. Quite interesting info. I am looking forward to listening to the other ones.
One link, right off the bat is to Linda Hamel’s own web site with lots of interesting resources about Open Source licensing in the public arena.
Particularly cool isthis huge Excel chart doing a comparison of all the multitude of open source licenses.
Technorati Tags: opensource, legal
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2005-06-03
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2005-06-01
Time to short Google?
This can’t be good: Google closed at $288 today.
John Batelle’s search blog is quoting someone as saying it will hit $300
I say, short the puppy, big time!
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May 2005
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2005-05-31
Counting blog impact
Interesting article about counting blogs makes a good point right off the bat:
“First, let’s step back and consider why we’re counting blogs at all. You no longer see articles that attempt to demonstrate the legitimacy of the Web by stating how many Web pages there are.
But blogs are still in the process of entering mainstream consciousness, so numerical credibility is important; bloggers themselves cite the statistics a lot.” (from Wall Street Journal Online)
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2005-05-28
Come on over, the water’s fine! Look who is recommending Macs!
Read more →I love my Mac, as y’all know. I was amused to read about Intel CEO Paul Otellini who publicly recommended getting a Mac. He was being interviewed by Walt Mossberg at the “D” conference:
‘… Asked whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy a Mac instead of a Wintel PC, he said, “If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.’ (from Mac News Network, but I saw it in several other places.)
Meanwhile, in a related story, Dave Winer sounds like he’s tempted to jump o...
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2005-05-25
VC: Rumors of its demise are probably premature
Read more →Not that I’m an expert or anything…
In the last few days there have been several articles about the problems in High Tech Venture Capital. One particularly interesting one was in the New York Times on Sunday talked about the exodus of recently minted venture capitalists from the business:
“We can’t really have people learning on the job anymore,” Mr. Kramlich said. Two-thirds of the partners who were at N.E.A. in 1997 are no longer at the firm, he said, and then cited an internal study that went a long way in explaining why: the surviving third accounted for 85 percent of the firm’s profit.” (...
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2005-05-25
Great musical: Falsettos at the Huntington Theatre
I Just came back from seeing ‘Falsettos‘, an unusual (and unusually good) musical, at the Huntington Theatre, in Boston. The themes cover the gamut from family, children, love, judaism, homosexuality, life and death. The music is unusual and complex and very nice. I recommend it highly. So much that I also just got the music from iTunes!Technorati Tags: music, recommended