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...

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 perso...

Doug Engelbart is going to be at the Future Salon this Friday, January 20th: Future Salon Friday 20th of January. It has the following structure: 6-7 networking with light refreshments proudly ...

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,...

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 st...

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 a...

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 ...

We failed in the quest for 100 cups of coffee in 48 hours. We both made it up to 75 however, which is a pretty respectable showing. I think 100 is possible, we just need to schedule it out better. ...

I had to pause for a while last night so that I could get some work done. I just couldn’t concentrate after 36 cups in 24 hours. I’m back at it for a little while now though. Hopefully I’ll at leas...

I think “choked down” would be an appropriate description for how I handled the last cup. And it was definitely shaking. I don’t like my coffee shaking. So I just setup cup 20 and then I’m taking a...