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There’s a lot of buzz right now about the leaked documents related to the war in Afghanistan. I am not clear myself whether they teach us anything new– they may or may not. Also I have not seen any reports claiming that the...
Read more →Now that I’ve been blogging for a while, it’s fun and instructive sometimes to see some of the older stuff that I wrote to see how fast our tech world changes and how I myself change…Everyone loves to beat up on Microsoft’...
Read more →An interesting article in the New York Times Magazine today about ‘Strictly Platonic Relationships‘, according to Craigs’ List denizens: > ‘And while they stress their lofty indifferences, the members of the Strictly Platonic crowd are equally passionate about their desire: conversation, conversation, conversation. Live, e-mail, phone, text, chat — platonic people, it seems, want people to talk to.’
This is from my OSX Activity Monitor.app. See how it shows that one process is using 659.9% of the CPU? Well I think I have two cores in this computer, but do I have 7??? I don’t think so… 
This didn’t really happen I am sitting on the lawn at the University, talking to a couple of friends. We hear a weird buzzing sound up in the air, and looking up we see an aircraft, flying very low. It looks kind of like an A-30 Warthog, but much much smaller. I guess it might be a radio controlle...
Read more →Just wonderin’ — the iPod Shuffle has a really cool feature where a synthesized voice will announce the name of a song over the earphones upon request. Super useful feature on any iPod, right? Then how come is it not available on the far more powerful and expensive iPhone? Is there a technical reason or a marketing reason or some other mysterious reason?
Check out 10 Tools for Distributed Developer Teams(from Mashable!: ** "Every developer and every manager will have his or her preferred tools for working with a distributed team. We’ve rounded up 1...
Read more →You can’t have missed the whole General Stanley McChrystal affair, where a decorated general who has spent his career in special operations and has been running the war in Afganistan in a moment of spectacular...
Read more →I don’t know yet whether I agree with or disagree with what is said in “REST Security (or lack thereof)” but you have to admit that this metaphor kills: > “Until then, we’ll just continue (asGene Spafford said) using an armored car to deliver between someone living in a cardboard box and someone living on a park bench.” (from 1 Raindrop) (Also check out his follow up post: Part Deux
This looks like a really nice and detailed tutorial on how to use Twitter in Rails. Check it out! p.s. if you don’t know what the previous sentence means, don’t worry about it. You must not really be geeky.
While teaching at Brandeis University this summer (see Cosi JBS Web Site) I’ve come to think a lot more deeply about the often cliche’d ‘REST’ approach to developing Web Services APIs. As everyone always says, when you try and ex...
Read more →Right now, take a look at Tivo’s Site. They are ‘giving away’ refurbished Tivos for $30.00. I just bought one the other day for $50 (they lowered the price again.) They must have a warehouse full of these. I think the very comprehensive set of cables that come with the device alone are worth the $30
Check out Introducing the Google Command Line Tool(from Google Open Source Blog: ** "GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs." (from: **Introducing the Google Command Line Tool) .
Check out MySpace Loses a Co-President(from Mashable!: ** "Space has announced that Co-President Jason Hirschorn has decided to leave the company, marking the exit of yet another top-level executive from the declining social network." (from: **MySpace Loses a Co-President) Don’t we know by now that co-presidents don’t work? We used to call it ‘two in a box’ and it was never a success. By the way, MySpace? They still around?
A couple of New York Times articles today that point out (what others have pointed out too) that the roots of the disaster in the Gulf have a lot in common with those of the Economic meltdown last year: **“AS the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico follows on the heels of the financial crisis, we can di...
Read more →Yay! One reason holding me to using FireFox on Mac was that I rely heavily on Scribefire which was not really working on Safari. I am using it now on Safari 5. It seems ok but, first blush it doesn’t seem quite as nice...
Read more →It was dark and thundering and lightening today at 4 in the afternoon. I found this really nice animated radar weather map of the last 2 hours. I am sure it’s just one of many but I hadn’t seen this one before. Enjoy! Live Weather Radar 
I came across this good post from Don Dodge which I wanted to share. Don was at Microsoft and is now at Google. He cites a [New York Times article about creativity](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/boo...
Read more →David Brooks of the New York Times writes about technology and risk, in the context of the drilling disaster in the Gulf: **“Second, people have a tendency to get acclimated to risk. As the physicist Richard Feynman wrote in a report on the ...
Read more →Very meta. Who rates the rating services? I saw this in the Wall Street Journal, an article today called Stocks Wind Down a Brutal May: **“Trading was especially volatile in the ...
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