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03/02 Letting out my Comcast frustrations —
“Dear Kelley I’ve had a very bad two days with Comcast, and if you check my account you will see that I’ve used Comcast for over 20 years!! But I am now talking to Verizon. Because I don’t want to waste more time with you guys I will say this: I am glad to talk to someone serious who wants to k...
02/29 Family Values — [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q&w=560&h=315]
02/26 Amazing article about what’s going on in Syria — MarieColvin In the Sunday Times (of London, I gather, but they don’t feel the need to include that in their name) I saw this outstanding article about what’s going on in Syria. (No I don’...
02/24 What is Pinterest good for? — Funny thing, I like many people are trying to figure out what Pinterest is good for. Well I found a use. From yesterday’s post, you saw that I am searching for a new application icon for BlogBridge. In fact I listed a series of out/crowdsource desig...
02/23 Crowdsourcing a new BlogBridge icon — Well, it’s been about 5 years with the same (lovely) BlogBridge application icon and as we are redesigning the web site and releasing a major new release of the product, we thought, hey, it’s time to update the icon to something, ahem, a little more modern. In case you forgot (or never knew),here’s...
02/21 Lake Wobegon and Politics — Have you ever heard a politician or pundit say, with self-assurance, America is a Right of Center country. Think Newt Gingrich. Right of Center. How do we determine the center? Isn’t this a lot like Lake Wobegon, “Where all our children are above average“? I’m just sayin’…
02/18 RSS feed for for twitter — A simple question that for some reason does not have a simple answer: > “I want to follow someone’s twitter feed using an RSS reader, where is it?” Well it seems that for some reason Twitter has quite hidden it but as a public service I will share the results of my research with you. You will fi...
02/17 MapReduce Patterns and Examples — Great review article: > “In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found in the web or scientific articles. Several practical case studies are also provided. All descriptions and code snippets use the ...
02/14 What I want to see in Spotify — As you know, I am a big big fan of Spotify. Lately I’ve been playing with the Last.FM integration. It’s a handy way for me to see what new music or artists I might like to listen to. I’ve discovered plenty of new music that way, it’s great. What I would like is to be able to ask Spotify (or Last.FM...
02/10 Selling course notes: a market solution — Should it be ok for students to take notes during a class and turn them into a marketable product that they make money on? If I am teaching the same class again this year, students could buy the course notes and potentially do better, or learn more. That’s a good thing, right? However is i...