February 2008
39 posts
enjoying a snowstorm
“I wonder if Google can pull off the same stunt in the future for new products....”
– GrandCentral Launches, But Only If You’re Homeless.
Michael Arrington… what an idiot.
having a grand old time using Yahoo Pipes for a little project
Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail →
This is very cool! Kudos to GrandCentral.
donating blood as I tweet. Had a very weird reaction at first with my body getting crazy hot, but I’m fine now
wondering if it’s time to dump svk for git
discovering a sessions table with 14 million rows. D’oh!
“He lists the arrows that critics sling his way. He’s too hopeful, too...”
– NYT
playing with EC2
Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S. →
Anecdotally, I think the audience is also increasingly skewing female.
trying to decide whether I should go see bill gates speak in an hour… or get some stuff done.
“[A]mong Web users ages 12 to 17, significantly more girls than boys blog (35...”
– Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times
“It takes all the links on the Web found by a search engine’s crawlers and...”
– TechCrunch’s idea of what MapReduce is. I have to admit I laughed out loud when I read this.
WatchLessig08
This is very cool that lessig is considering running for congress.
“Gallup notes that among those surveyed last night, after a day of media coverage...”
– TPM - An Effective Attack? Unbelievable.
Wondering if I should throw caution to the wind and do my patriotic duty by buying some gratuitous electronic toy with my “stimulus” loot.
wondering if it’s time I embrace Spaces
is anyone else getting inundated with email spam with links to blogspot like this: http://lavonnekattsq.blogspot.com/ ?
bringing the rspec coverage on the new side project up to 100%.
Languages I wrote code in today for various projects: Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, C, JavaScript (that may be a personal record for 24hrs)
discovering FastRI and how frickin awesome it is. Goodbye ruby-doc.org!
Pleased I can no longer see through the 22 pixels at the top of the screen.
Colin Powell hints he may vote against Republicans →
You gotta respect Powell’s candor after leaving the administration. The GQ interview from last year is a great read, too.
Peeling & slicing a mango for the first time in my life. Did you know they have cores?
“If they do this, and it swings the nomination one way or another, I sincerely...”
– Ben Goodger on the prospect of Michigan & Florida getting their delegates back.
“Normally I could help you sir, but not at Threat Level Orange”
– ADT security person to Brad Fitzpatrick as he’s trapped in his own garage.
Making my first contribution to Obama For America. Let the emails begin.
Go Obama!!
“Even though specs amount to little more than syntactic sugar, and certainly...”
– Sam Ruby
Very cool to see Sam Ruby writing specs.
thinking it would be so much cooler to watch how they setup and tear down the halftime show, than to see the show itself.
amused that without knowing anything about it, I guessed @brandtkurowski’s new gem from the names of all the recently approved projects.
super excited about brad fitzpatrick’s Social Graph API http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/api.html