A friend of mine passed on a rather disturbing link to a Republican blogger ranting about the evils of Linux. I can’t tell if this is satire (think overdone Colbert Report) or if this woman really is this nuts. (Post summary: Linux is a foreign, communist, unamerican attempt to destroy the US […]
I’ve been doing a lot of air travel this year. I use Kayak.com to dig up air fares — they seem to have the most flexible search tools, include the costs of fees and taxes in the prices and direct you to the origin site (usually the airline itself) to book the flight, rather […]
Recently coworker Noel and I were invited over to the lower Manhattan digs of PubSub. They’ve built a pretty sweet system for following topics of interest as they are mentioned on the web. Rather than trying to be Google or Technorati (indexing and storing the entire web/blogosphere), they’re taking a differnet approach to […]
Just before leaving Ann Arbor last fall, I attempted to make contact with someone at the local cable access station (CTN) regarding two issues surrounding their broadcast of government meetings.
The first was regarding whether they could improve their TV listings so it would be easier to record meetings on their DVRs. I would […]
Fresh on the heels of two great NYC geek community experiences (NY Tech Meetup and Dorkbot), I’m on my way out the door to BarCamp NYC. Since I didn’t have time to pull together a presentation (it’s hard to have active projects when you’ve just moved twice, faced potential lawsuits, started a new job, […]
I’ve been thinking about “guilty pleasures” lately. Not sure what sparked it. I Googled the phrase and came up with these MSNBC articles which are amusing in that Reader’s Digest humor sort of way. My favorite guilty pleasure from an MSNBC reader:
Milli Vanilli
I love those songs! And no matter who actually sang […]
The last few days I tried an experiment: auto-posting links from my del.icio.us account (a web-based social bookmarking service) directly to this blog nightly. I often bookmark cool, interesting things with insightful comments on del.icio.us, and since few people actually use del.icio.us, I wanted people who read my blog could see what was happening […]
Dave Heinemeier Hansson (of Ruby on Rails fame) and Adrian Holovaty (of Django, Lawrence.com and Chicago Crime Map fame) had a little debate about the merits of their web framworks Rails and Django. One observation they make is that Rails is targetted as a platform for building web applications (more business logic) while Django […]
The perpetual move goes on. This time, I’m moving all my web sites from my rented server to my new TextDrive hosting for life account. Having full control over a server is nice, but since I’m using mostly out-of-the-box software, and since I do enough systems administration as a day job, and since […]
Tuesday we packed the truck. Wednesday we drove it to east Jersey. Thursday we unloaded it into our humble abode in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I acquired swimmers’ ear early in the week which, by Friday, was an all-out infection; why must I always go ill when we move? My brother David flew […]
