January 2010
1 post
December 2009
4 posts
Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa →
Best 24 interrogation in a while
“What I dream of is an art of balance.”
– Henri Matisse
Enjoying the game. That was a true Carolina first half. 50 points baby. UNC looking the best it has all year.
November 2009
3 posts
To marketing execs: Do put tyler hansbrough in your commercial to connect with UNC fan audience. Do not have him speak.
““I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best...”
– Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms owner
via Signal Versus Noise
December 2008
1 post
August 2008
1 post
Good Timing
All In with Ad Ac Ad Jd vs. 9d Kc 7c 6c
Board: 6d kd 6h 3h
Odds from TwoDimes
Omaha Hi: 40 enumerated boards containing Kd 6d 6h 3h
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
As 3c Ad Jd 2 5.00 38 95.00 0 0.00 0.050
9s Kc 7c 6c 38 95.00 2 5.00 0 0.00 0.950
Waiting for river…and fulltilt goes down. Sometimes a little luck is all that...
July 2008
7 posts
““A few decades ago, many people didn’t drink water outside of a meal. Then...”
– Warning: Habbits May Be Good for You (NY Times)
“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
June 2008
2 posts
May 2008
3 posts
Trying out Powerset ...
Trying out the search engine Powerset, which has a very slick user interface, and neat concept but still has some issues to work out.
Check out the set of wikipedia facts it pulled out for me on a query for Steve Ballmer.
ouch.
I'm "Back"
So after taking a week off from my digital media addiction I have a few take-aways:
I don’t need techcrunch (or mashable, venture beat, hacker news, digg, or anything else of the sort)
Maybe I’m just lucky because I have connected friends who send me enough things, but I didn’t feel out of the loop or that I had missed anything of any consequence.
I spend a lot of time on...
April 2008
8 posts
Online Sabbatical
I’ve decided to take a week off of my online media consumption. I have found recently I “j-walk” through too much time in google reader, reply to too many facebook messages and notifications, spend too much effort just keeping up with the flow of twitter.
I need some solid productive time on the computer because the rest of my life has gotten so thoroughly scheduled that its...
“To reach the normal users, we must provide them value: some functionality, ease,...”
– Brad Fitz, Some thoughts on the Social Graph
WatchChris Messina gives a great overview of what the DiSo project is, and more importantly aims to be.
I’m working on my term project for my Online Social Networks class which is to implement a very basic distributed social network and I’m finding more and more that there is a lot of ambiguity in what someone means when they toss around the term ‘distributed social network’....
Best Facebook App Ever →
How Google killed the Signup Form
Google’s Bold Play
One of the most overlooked things that Google’s App Engine brings to the table is the ability to tap into the massive user base of Google Apps, in a very similiar way to facebook’s developer platform. While Google lacks the social network facebook provides (at least in the US), it provides a large captive audience to any new service who previously would have...
New shirt for startupwear: "Fund Me!"
We’ve all been there: You have the next best thing all planned out, your contextual ad fueled social mashup running on all propriety technology someone is going to be dying to buy out. All you need is a a couple million in vc funding and you’ll be cruising on in your jet in no time.
Next time you’re trying to explain your paradigm shifting social mashup to one of those dull...
Technorati Profile
Technorati Profile
Introducing StartupWear
It’s official, we’ve launched StartupWear.com: The poor man’s VC Wear.
The business plan is pretty simple, while VC Wear targets the upper echelon of investors with their $100 witty t-shirts. StartupWear.com targets the layman entrepreneur probably funding their startup with a credit-card and strong financial projections. We think $20 for a witty t-shirt covering device is the...
March 2008
23 posts
“If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.”
– Ben Franklin in Poor Richard’s Almanack
Don't Embed Color Profile
Unless of course you want to look dumb in Safari.
Background
Safari is the only browser that correctly interprets the color profile information as is the default for Photoshop when saving jpegs.
So what happens is your make your cute web2.0 app with your oh-so-original rounded corners you made in photoshop, and you all your safari traffic will see your cute corner image clash with your...
Pylot | Open Source Web Performance Tool →
Benchmarks of DIfferent Rails Full-Text Search... →
gladwell dot com - blowing up →
Cells bring clean re-use to your Rails views «... →
People as Data Connectors from JasonKolb.com - The... →
celemony_ :: Direct Note Access →
Amazing. One of the coolest applications of technology accomplishing something I have always dreamed of but deemed impossible.
Is social networking a waste of time? - Times... →
“One estimate puts the cost to British industry at £6.5 billion per annum … Another survey estimates that Britainâs social media fanatics are spending as much as 12 hours per week on these…
New sales program pays Facebook members:... →
mathjob - Fullscreen →
Common Interview Problems
python_cheatsheet.png 773×938 pixels →
Interesting way to present basic python syntax
Stevey's Blog Rants: Get that job at Google →
Really good interviewing tips/tricks/advice
Http Headers Diagram →
Very cool chart explaining HTTP headers
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Using SQLite3 for Rails on MediaTemple (dv)
SQLite is a really easy to use serverless, selfcontained database engine. Additionally it is the default db adapter for Ruby on Rails version 2.0. This post gives a quick overview for using SQLite3 and Ruby on Rails on a Media Temple Dedicated Virtual 3.0 Server.
Pre-Requisites
Media Temple Dedicated Virtual 3.0 Server
Root Access
Developer Tools
SSH Access
Install...
Quick Break
Taking a quick break from blogging to implement a really cool new web application conceived last thursday. More info soon.