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Email I just sent to Amazon. > Dear Amazon: I can’t believe you stoop as low as that and hide the ability to close my account so thoroughly that I now have to engage in a multi-message email discussion with you to convince you to do so. Please CLOSE my account! If you want to close your Amazon acc...
Read more →“We’re kickstarting a Super PAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016. We set fundraising goals and then crowdfund those goals.” Lofty goal but so vague I can’t tell which way is up! I remember something that sounded similar, a few years ago: It ...
Read more →We all have heard more than once that “VCs will NOT sign NDAs, don’t even ask!”. And we’ve also heard and said many times that “Ideas are cheap” and that many first time entrepreneurs are far too precious about their great ideas. They keep them top top secret, ask prospective customers to sign an ND...
Read more →Just playing with my new blogging platform to see if it works ok! 
I wrote recently about Fake Steve and wondered aloud how he could get away with what he gets away with. If that thread interested you at all, you’ve got to go look at the latest shenanigans that Fake Steve is reporting in his blog. [He’s being ...
Read more →Here’s an interesting article about how Ruby (the programming language not the gem) is interpretted or compiled. (It’s funny to contemplate what that question might mean to someone who thinks we are talking about a gem and not a programming language. ‘Is Ruby Interpretted or Compiled’ ? Say what??) ...
Read more →Maybe it’s because I just arrived from a long drive and stay in New York where I was guided by the nose by my TomTom GPS lady. Did you know that the Garmin GPS Lady gets a little annoyed when you choose a direction different from what is suggested? She says something like: “Incorrect Route, Recalcu...
Read more →About a week ago the new version of the Safari Browser came out for Mac OS X. I was swayed by the promotion and decided to use it for a while instead of Firefox 3.5. Here’s my take, subjective, not based on a scientific analysis: - If Safari 4.02 is faster than Firefox 3.5.1 it wasn’t immediately o...
Read more →Now I’ve been a mac for about 4 years now, so I generally don’t pay too much attention to Microsoft’s new product releases. But take a look at some of these videos about Office 2010. There’s are some impressive new developments. I am particularly impressed with the ‘backstage view’ which appears to...
Read more →I came across this video by Armando Fox with his views of what went wrong with the Obamacare website, from a deep technical perspective. It’s part of a University of California at Berkley course on SAAS Software Engineering. It’s very very good! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl5WFz6Gi28&w=854&h=480]
I’ve been digging pretty deep into the Software Engineering literature to prepare a new course I am developing and came across this. It’s always fun to have a top-10 list even in the driest of topics, so here is Barry Boehm’s “Timeless Principles (+) and Aging Practices (-) of Software Engineering! ...
Read more →I am reading a really cool book right now: Review & Outlook: Loose Lips on Syria – WSJ.com: > It’s always possible that all of this leaking about when, how and for how long the U.S. will attack Syria is an elaborate head-fake, like Patton’s ghost army on the eve of D-Day, poised for the assault on Calais. But based on this Administration’s past behavior, such as the leaked bin Laden raid details, chances are most of this really is the war plan.
Interesting article: The media loves the “wrong speed” theory, but a lightning strike and electrical failure are more likely culprits. Technorati Tags: airplane, weather, airbus
Check out this really interesting article plus lovely animations. I have to go find out how it actually implements the animations. Even though the examples are in Python, what is actually embedded into the page? We shall see! ## Visualizing Alghorithms
I bet you didn’t know there was a forest like this in Woburn! 
Really good article, albeit quite geeky, about concurrency in general, and using Go-like primitives in Ruby.
In moving my blog to Squarespace 6 I’ve had a lot of contact with their support service. They are ‘just ok’. Yes, they have the usual boilerplate, “so glad you contacted us” and “i think I understand why this is important to you.” Ok, ok. Enough cut and paste. The problem is that they are probably ...
Read more →Based on my own experience, some of my favorite books and blog posts, and advice from friends, I’ve come up with this. What do you think? What should I add? Please comment! #### Personal Effectiveness Rules of Thumb - When you have your best idea ever, always remember that the idea is just 1%...
Read more →I’ve been using mint.com for years now but every month I hate it a little bit more. It’s too big, too slow, and too buggy. But it’s solving a problem that I need solved which is a comprehensive cloud based personal finance tool that covers banking, investments, credit cards, reporting and analysis. ...
Read more →I have been noticing more and more serialized tweets. In other words, someone tweets several times in a row because what they have to say will not fit into 140 characters. They number them and fire them off one after the other. That way you, the reader, can reassemble them in your head. Of cours...
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