August 2008
115 posts
Op-Ed Columnist - A Speech to the Delegates -... →
Video - Doocy: Alaska is Next to Russia - Sarah... →
Money quote from Frum: “Ms. Palin’s experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall.”
I’m not proud, but this domain name makes me laugh: http://vpilf.com
Not saying my current pic is going to win any prizes, either. And it is a little misleading since I don’t wear glasses any more.
Feeling bad about contributing to the anti-mangatar pile on. Feeling less bad knowing that @jhaynie won’t care.
JExcelApi →
xkcd - Fetishes - By Randall Munroe →
I’m such a sucker for jokes involving Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.
Friending, Ancient or Otherwise - New York Times →
“The more time we spend ‘talking’ online, the less time we spend, well, talking. And as we stretch the definition of a friend to encompass people we may never actually meet, will the strength of our…
"vmkit" JVM and .Net runtimes for LLVM →
“The VMKit project is an implementation of a JVM and CLI virtual machine (.Net is an implementation of the CLI). It translates Java bytecode and MSIL in the LLVM IR and uses the LLVM framework for…
Thinking some of you out there might find this interesting: http://tinyurl.com/6qpbvb
Wishing Twitter didn’t shorten URLs when it wasn’t necessary.
Wondering what constitutes online for Facebook IM. Turned on in Adium. Now seeing people coming in and out. Wonder how it matches browsing.
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of... →
Joining a ridiculously large conference call.
[cfe-dev] "Blocks" in Clang (aka closures) →
Playing with Ubiquity.
Pretty sure that at this rate the next Capital Lounge will resemble a nudist retreat. Remember to bring your own towel.
Charging iPhone.
Wondering whether anything has happened with BrowserPlus™ recently.
Retweeting @dalmaer Gears for Safari in testing….. http://tinyurl.com/5ryv68
Checking out Gears for Safari in 4.0 DP2. Seems to work. Integration with Web Inspector would rock, but I think that is hoping for too much.
NeverBlock →
“NeverBlock is a Ruby library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner.”
Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty →
“A Cloud Is Easier To Draw On A Whiteboard Than A Grid” Clouds are truly the ultimate whiteboard/PowerPoint weapon. They can hide so many complicated things: network latency, SLAs, incompatible data,…
Watching Hammerlytics video from @chrisgemignani: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/analyticstime
Wanting to read about Wittgenstein much more now than I ever did when taking Philosophy of Language. Related, working on IT policies.
Op-Ed Columnist - Hoping It’s Biden - Op-Ed -... →
Who’d have thought Brooks would make me happier about Biden.
Reading @JoeTrippi on Joe Biden.
Cringing while watching clip of Biden’s Indian comment: http://video.nationaljournal.com/Monday/BidenIndian.mov (via @jowyang via @peterkim)
Listening to old Utah Saints CD I found in attic. Samples of Kate Bush and whale song.
The Home Page for Evil →
“Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil?”
Retweeting @jdickerson “Obama will introduce Biden and say he picked him because he’s clean and articulate and a nice looking guy.”
Remembering that mashups were music first. Just finished Gold and Iron Mambo and on to Don’t Seether (Veruca Salt vs. Enya).
Web Kit Objective-C Programming Guide: Core Web... →
Re: Twitter strategies, there is a term you’ll see a good bit on Twitter/Favrd: webcock. Check def in Urban Dictionary.
Secretly glad I woke boys when I came in. Hate not seeing them before sleep.
Wishing I could stay for beers but family calls.
Leaving AWE mtg. High points definitely meeting @driveafastercar and @benag in person.
FWIW, the pics of people you are following are ordered by when they signed up.
Nieman Reports - Don't Fear Twitter - John... →
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation →
On assessing a good CEO: “Do they communicate well? Do they excel at having difficult face to face conversations with their team and their investors? Do they hire well? Do they move quickly to get…
Watched Fareed Zakaria talk with Imran Khan and China roundtable on GPS podcast over lunch. Great program. Another reason I love my iPhone.
" Sample Active Child Trades | Child Trader Child... →
“Child Trader Child Exchange Network isnât about not loving your children. Its about finding a family that can love them more.”
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know →
All I have to offer now is a Mac SE.
Obama ad on Ralph Reed and John McCain →
Great ad.
Wondering why I thought this VPN wouldn’t fail when it was actually used.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Selections From... →
I have wondered, “What is toffee, exactly?” That may explain a lot.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The... →
It is rather a cruel joke.
ELASTRA Delivers Cloud Portability With Support... →
