Go See “The Cry of the Reed” right now
I just came back from the theatre, the Huntington Theatre, Boston’s, production of a brand new play called “The Cry of the Reed” by Sinan Ünel. This pl...
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April 2008
Three on getting a job
Check this post Three on getting a job from Newmark’s Door. Where Craig turns us on to these three fun links for job hunters (Dan are you listening?): > - “[Ten Thi...
Read more →Doomsday Cult
Scott Adams as usual is hillarious in this post Doomsday Cult from The Dilbert Blog: > "A Russian cult emerged from the cave they were hiding in while waiting fo...
Read more →March 2008
Use Google Sets for competitive analysis
I bet you’ve not heard of another crazy-cool service from Google, Google Sets. I first read about Google Sets some months ago but didn’t bother looking until today, Sunday, when i saw this interesting article about [Google Set’s patents.](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-sets-search-e...
Read more →More about Leopard, Apple’s answer to Vista
For you slow pokes who have not yet upgraded to Leopard, my continuing experience might be of interest (then again it may not.) If you are a real slow poke you may not know that Leopard is Apple’s new generation operating system for the Mac line. My reference above to Vista is mostly tongue-in-cheek...
Read more →Finally updating to Leopard
Usually more on the bleeding edge than this, I decided to wait until now to upgrade my macs to Leopard which is the name of the new Mac OS X release. If anything interesting happens I will let you know. Hopefully nothing interesting will happen 🙂 - Why does the Leopard update begins with an exhaustive and lengthy “checking of the DVD for consistency”? process? I haven’t heard much about DVDs getting mysteriously turned inconsistent. Maybe they are doing something else and just making up a more tolerable exuse for the 30 minute do-nothing delay. - I have a 4 year old iMac G4 notebook. I wonder if Leopard will like it.
How GPS devices are being used to detect and avoid traffic
This is relevant to the discussion about congestion pricing, mesh networks and avoiding traffic jams, a topic that I am getting interested in as you could see from this previous post. > [… snip] Now help is at hand. As satelli...
Read more →How stonehenge was built
It’s rare that I watch/listen to a whole Youtube. But here you go… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0&hl=en]
What does Urban Congestion have to do with Mesh Networks?
Check out this very interesting [article that suggests that placing mesh network nodes in cars is a far better way to implement congestion pricing](http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wirel...
Verizon opening up it’s network somewhat
I am starting to follow the world of mesh networks and things related to that. One immediate question that has popped up is: now that there are cell towers everywhere, what advantage might there be to creating a new national or global or mobile network based on...
Read more →More e-Voting shenanigans
You know I follow the vagaries of computer voting machines, right? Here’s an interesting article about how one e-voting machine maker is trying to prohibit a researcher from studying the security (= trying to hack into) one of their machines: > “Princeton Professor Edward Felten astonished Congr...
Read more →Casinos in Mass? Please, No!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWsfDweeM4&hl=en]I found my way onto Robin Chase’s blog, Network Musings. She writes about lots of stuff I am interested in. Starting with the top post right now, [“Should Casinos Subsidize Car Travel?”](http://networkmu...
Read more →[Geeky] Doing popups in Rails and elsewhere
So my little toy pedagogical application needed a pretty popup box. Actually I wanted one so I could see close up some of the alternatives. In the process I came across three different code snippets, each one doing it in a little bit different way. For you and me, here are the links: - The DOM-popup kit, by Stuart Rackham - The FAMSPAM Facebox package by Chris Wantrath - The Bubble Tooltip kit by Alessandro Fulciniti with an assist by Annalisa Afeltra I tried the first two, but the third looks cool too. I liked Facebox the best. Your mileage may/will vary.
A True Horror Story About Why We Need Authentication Standards
I am constantly downloading applications and utilities off the web to try this or that out. I am as paranoid as the next guy so I do think about where this app came from and what havock it may or may not be planning. Still, I often will choose to ignore my most paranoid impulses and go ahead. I ...
Read more →25 George W. Bush Facts
List of Lists is an entertaining blog. He doesn’t post that often but when he does it’s usually interesting. Check out this post from A List of Lists: > “[….]in keeping with A List of Lists factual theme I’ll...
Read more →Mars Avalanche photos
> “The new image shows tan clouds moving away from the foot of a 700-metre slope, where dust and material made of water ice and frozen carbon dioxide have just tumbled down.” (from New Scientist) This is one of those times when a picture is worth 1,000 words 🙂
Contributing to the purient interest
No less an authority as the Freakonomics dudes offer an article about “A Call Girl’s View of the Spitzer Affair” Read this Q & A and many more like it. > “Q. Have you ever had a client as powerful or wel...
Read more →30% to Apple for folks selling iPhone apps??
Check out this post from Planet RubyOnRails: > I doubt few of my readers have missed that Apple just released the iPhone SDK. How many read through the fine print? Bottom line is: If you want to sell app...
Read more →Once more confirming my cynicism
Sorry, but for some reason it seems that the cynics win out once more: > “I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” said Mr. Spitzer…” (from The New York Times)
I Don’t Believe in COO’s
I agree with this post from Feld Thoughts: > Overall, titles don’t (and shouldn’t) matter much in an early stage company, other than for helping people on the outside of the company understand who does what to whom. In my experience, the idea of a COO almost always muddies the water. (from: I Don’t Believe in COO’s)