I’m a technical person, a hacker. I happen to also be a pretty good designer, at the same time. While they both are weaved together so often, they often form a bizarre dichotomy. Spending a good chunk of my high school and college years learning to be a pretty programmer/scientist, I was taught from the ground up to be a problem solver. I know how to identify a problem, then design and...
Big changes are going on, as you can guess by the title. We still have to work out the details. It’s a lot less stress, because I no longer have to confront everything myself. But, at the same time, it introduces all the issues that arise when working with other people – trust, delegation, responsibility, legal – these come up regardless of how close people are...
From the San Diego fires…via LAist
Fired up Mozilla Thunderbird this morning, to find an update for Mozilla Lightning, the calendar plug-in for their e-mail client. I had installed it before and absolutely hated it mainly because of the crappy/ugly interface. The new interface, however, is really slick. Thanks open source!
Background: Startup Weekend is an idea where area developers/entrepreneurs/geeks gather and, from idea selection to launch, develop a web application, and hopefully start a bona fide company out of it. DC’s Startup Weekend is this weekend. I never signed up because of various other commitments going on, but I am proud to be a cosponsor of it. Wish I had time to stop by! They are doing a...
Members of Palestine’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with
the Fatah political party, has admitted to using Google Earth for
mapping targets for rocket strikes.
Had to happen sometime.
Missile Attacks on Israel Increase with Updated Images on Google Earth
I’ve been using Freepository to host my current projects, but Unfuddle looks good enough to switch to, and their plans seem pretty decent. I had been getting pretty sick of the current issue trackers I’ve been using, which always seem to be butt ugly.
It’s commonplace among technical entrepreneurs to have a form of ADD when working on web applications. You sell yourself (and maybe one or two others) on a great idea, pursue it ruthlessly for some short period of time, then, just as it is nearing completion, hit a wall (like advertising it) or come up with a better idea, lose interest, and already moved on to the next project. As time goes...
I was playing around with FriendCSV, which exports data on your Facebook friends into a format that can be imported into any number of applications. It’s cool, but the only worthwhile information are birthdays (Facebook, taking the black-hole approach to data retention, doesn’t let out essential contact information)… and the user IDs of all your friends. Quick lesson for non...