• Open Position at Ning

    Posted on January 25, 2006

    We’re looking for a new developer at Ning.Here’s the complete description. Like Gina says, the team is fantastic. Everyone here knows their shit inside and out, including an ops team that I’ve just simply never seen the equal to before. The egineers are all fantastic. The project is interesting. The... [Read More]

  • Blogging Doomed!!!!

    Posted on January 25, 2006

    Reclusive mobile technology pundit and Internet crackpot Russell Beattie posted recently about the increasing number of sensationalist posts out in the bloggosphere. What does it mean? Well I for one think it spells out doom. DOOOM!!!! Doomy doomy doom spreading all over the place. And then a light lunch. Won’t... [Read More]

  • Bawk Bawk Bawk Bakawwwwk!

    Posted on January 24, 2006

    I use Chicken every once in a while, particularly when fooling around with web stuff. They have some kick ass extensions : basic HTTP, more featurefull web server, XML query and generation. I first ran across it looking at some modal web programming samples and have continued to like it... [Read More]

  • Lisp is Sin

    Posted on January 22, 2006

    While I don’t agree with the overall conclusion, this essay points to a number of great resources and ties together a line of discussion about Lisp and Scheme very well. I agree with trying to make programming accessable to a larger audience (especially after hearing Doug Egelbart speak the other... [Read More]

  • I Still Love Ya Mike

    Posted on January 20, 2006

    I’ve been getting pinged on IM this morning about my reaction to Mike from TechCrunch ripping into Ning today. I’ve spoken to Mike a few times and always got the impression he’s the kind of person who honestly speaks his mind. So sometimes of course we’re going to be on... [Read More]

  • Ubuntu + Firefox + Flash(block)

    Posted on January 16, 2006

    I don’t use Flash normally, but I installed it (with the flashblock plugin for Firefox of course) so that I can fool around with Google Analytics, which renders views in little flash applets. Cool, as much as I don’t like Flash normally it’s a nice path to transition to richer... [Read More]

  • There is No Open Source Community

    Posted on January 13, 2006

    Interesting article over at OnLamp called There Is No Open Source Community. Some excellent points in there, the central being that open source is not driven by ideological crusaders, but by the straightforward economic benefic of participants. I would disagree with the title of the article however. There is an... [Read More]

  • Small Small GPS

    Posted on January 13, 2006

    Aww yea, starting up the talk about implanted electronics is a sure way to get my attention. Although knowing GPS you could probably get the chip implanted subcutaneous but then need a large dish antenna grafted to your forehead in order to use it, and it would still only work... [Read More]

  • Akismet Setup

    Posted on January 11, 2006

    One of the cooler features of Wordpress 2.0 is supposed to be the Akismet plugin for spam filtering. The last couple of days must have put me on all the spam target lists. I just cleared out about 150 spam comments over the last three hours, and don’t really feel... [Read More]