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Many consumer products, like cell phones, computers, and so on seem to come with some kind of a [tag]rebate[/tag]. Buy now and get $50 back, and so on. I don’t quite understand the business or marketing intent of this scheme. I just switched my whole kit and kaboodle cell phone business from Sprint...
Read more →The guy who created [tag]Live Journal[/tag] (Brad Fitzpatrick) has a manifesto of sorts regarding what needs to happen next in the world of [tag]social networking[/tag]. He is certainly not the first to identify the problem: > “If I had to declare the problem statement succinctly, it’d be: People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site., but also: Developing “Social Applications” is too much work.” (from Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph)
I’m an on and off [tag]Ruby[/tag] developer, and recently I’ve been trying to decide whether I should use Eclipse for Ruby development or whether TextMate (I am on a Mac) is better. Why even think of [tag]Eclipse[/tag]? Simply that I know it well and it’s very rich for developing Java. It’s also cro...
Read more →Check out this post from James Fallows: > A small plane apparently crashed last night on Nantucket Island. First reports are never quite right, but it appears that the weather was terrible — dark; very low clouds; mist and fog; sea, sky, and land in a blur. These are deadly conditions to fly in, and the same conditions in the same area killed John F. Kennedy Jr. 8 years ago.* (from: Would this have saved JFK Jr?)
On September 11, 2007, the [tag]Boston PHP User Group[/tag] is meeting about “Building the PHP-stack for the [tag]enterprise[/tag]”: > “PHP has become ubiquitous when it comes to personal blogs, content management systems, ecommerce sites and more. Take any list of Web 2.0 sites and you’ll find that more than 50% have PHP as back-end technology. What is less known is that PHP is also making significant inroads in the enterprise. Join BostonPHP, IBM and Zend as we discuss where “Enterprise” PHP (and OSS) is going and how it’s going to get there. : (from Boston PHP) If you are into [tag]PHP[/tag] you should check it out!
[tag]Funny[/tag]! I saw this in Dilbert this weekend. I’ve lived this myself. And I’ve been accused of “you make competing sound bad.” They may have a point, I don’t know. 
Quick movie review: two movies of more or less the same flavor: [tag]The Bourne Ultimatum[/tag] with heart-throb Matt Damon vs. Live Free or Die Hard with old-dude Bruce Willis. Both good movies (for their genre), but I give the nod to [tag]Live Free or Die Hard[/tag]. Why? [tag]Bruce Willis[/tag] is funny and [tag]Matt Damon[/tag] (in this movie, and presumably as intended) has no personality.
Over on BlogBridge we just announced that release 5.10 just came out, you should try BlogBridge out! In the post there is also a review and explanation of the difference between our b...
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I like this snippet of the art work from a new exhibit at the Moma of the art of Dan Perjovsch. Ah...
Scott Kirsner writes about VC’s this post in his new blog Innovation Economy > "[…] Though they like to portray themselves as omniscient and omnipotent, they’re actually quite anxious about missing the next big deal.[…]" (from: Dirty Little Secrets About VCs)
Far be it from me to comment on sports… In fact this is exactly the first sports related post for this blog in 4 years. Anyway, if you follow the Redsox, you know they/we have/had a great pitcher by the name of Curt Shilling. He’s well known by ...
Read more →I was chatting with my neighborhood iPhone (Cingular/AT&T) dealer and learned this interesting detail (which all you hard code iPhone fanatics out there I am sure know all about.) The price of an iPhone ($500 and $700) is the same whether you are activating a new service with Cingular or want to use...
Read more →I am not going to write yet another long review or commentary. But I can’t resist a few crass words: - It’s real and it works. They had 4 of them in stock at my neighborhood ATT/Cingular shop. It is indeed gorgeous. Sleek, star-trekky. It does everything you see in the ads (and I am sure, much muc...
Read more →Hey, don’t blame me, I’m just posting a pointer to this interesting story over that the ever-legitimate Freakonomics Blog. The depths to which people will sink to get certain words and images on their blogs, it’s just outragous. Shameful. Check out [this post](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Freakon...
Read more →A few years ago I got the idea to get myself a label printer for around the office. Turns out that it’s been really really handy. Almost all the labels that I’ve printed have been for the myriad of cables, chargers and other doo-dads that one accumulates...
Read more →Check out this post from WSJ.com: Health Blog: > Contrary to the earlier paper’s assumptions, Dr. Godar et al. found that children aren’t outdoors more than adults: “Surprisingly, it is adults over the age...
Read more →I wrote this really simple introduction to locating and following news and current affairs blogs. Check it out, you might find it interesting.
Check out this post from Freakonomics Blog: ** In order to buy a home, one typically needs to save 10 to 20% of the purchase price for a down payment. The remainder of the purchase price is typicall...
Read more →With all the unbelievable hoopla around the imminent release of the iPhone my thinking turns to the APPL stock price. Right now the Apple stock price at an all time high of $123.00 per share. The iPhone is coming out in one week. What will the stock price do?...
Read more →Check out this post from Gluttonous: Snippet: Multi-Search and Replace