Clearing Inventory
Apple is apparently updating hardware without telling folks so that they can clear inventory. Interesting. Wonder what happens when the Intel based systems come out? They just going to get quitly slipped in too?
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Coroutines (Navel Gazing Warning)
This mention of lightweight cooperative multithreading and coroutines caught my eye for some reason. Maybe cause it’s been a while since I wrote anything in C and I got a patch this morning for one of my open source palm programs. Which of course got me thinking about programs that... [Read More] -
Early Discussion
The early conversation around the Ning launch has been great. Checking out the ning tag at del.icio.us (429 people bookmarked the site as of this writing) or Technorati search for ning or Feedster search for ning turns up a whole bunch of posts. Here are some of the ones that... [Read More] -
Unbagging The Cat
We took the wraps off our secret project this evening. I didn’t want to post anything until we actually had information to make public for fear of attracting more negative attention. It’s been hard to keep quiet. It’s a fantastic team and we’ve all been fired up about what we’re... [Read More] -
Heading to New York
I’m heading out to my parent’s place on Long Island (Huntington) to attend my sister’s wedding. I’ll be back on Oct 3rd. -
Tag Tuesday Tomorrow
I’m planning to head up to the city tomorrow to meet up with some folks in town for CTIA San Francisco, and Niall pointed out that Tag Tuesday is tomorrow too. I haven’t been out and about all that much lately, so I’m hoping to catch up with a whole... [Read More] -
Oral History of Silicon Valley
I listened to John Markoff’s talk from the SDForum while I was wandering around, and decided that it was too good of a collection of references about Silicon Valley not to have my own pointers online. I’ll have to pick up the book also, sounds like it’ll be great. Meantime,... [Read More] -
Firefox Security
Slashdot has a post pointing to a ZDnet article comparing number of published expoits between Internet Explorer and Firefox. Numbers like this don’t really mean anything though. Comparing the number of PUBLISHED expoits found in an open source project to those found in a like proptietary project is like comparing... [Read More] -
Despamming
I had a spam comment to this post that I just had to approve so that everyone could see it. I have no idea what to make of it. It’s either funny, or sad, or scary…. Maybe all three. Is the person really tired of their job and just fooling... [Read More] -
Audio Commentary
Russ pasted a link t o a description of watching The Simpsons with audio descriptions on. I really really wish those videos were retrievable right now. Apparently the person who uploaded them ran out of bandwidth. If someone can get a hold of them and create some torrents that would... [Read More]