A great speech
Obama’s victory speech at Iowa this evening was one of the most inspiring political speeches I’ve ever seen, particularly the second half. Watch it on cpan.org and it’ll be on youtube tomorrow.
January 3, 2008 | Startups | No comments
An iPhone? Thanks but I'd rather get punched in the face.
I gave a loved one an Apple iPhone as a gift this afternoon. The happiness lasted until she started trying to transfer her cellphone number from T-Mobile (who we love) to AT&T (the only network with iPhones). After spending 40 minutes on the phone with an AT&T customer service rep she had to call T-Mobile […]
January 3, 2008 | Startups | 1 comment
Live Caucus Map – courtesy Google
Google has a Live Caucus Map in case you’re watching the Iowa caucuses this evening.
January 3, 2008 | Startups | No comments
I'm a fan
Saw this image on cnn.com this morning. It captures the essence of democracy. While I wonder if Barack knows what’s good for American business, I can’t help but like the guy.
January 2, 2008 | Startups | No comments
Avoiding cross site request forgery in your web apps
Google recently fixed a glaring vulnerability in gmail that allows an attacker to forward copies of all or some of your email to themselves by adding a filter to your gmail account. But not before someone lost their domain name to an attacker who then proceeded to try to sell it back to them for […]
December 25, 2007 | Code | 1 comment
The importance of not knowing what isn't possible
A Microsoft quote from an NY Times article I’ve already cited has been bugging the crap out of me. It bugged me when I first blogged about this article and it bugged me as I wandered around B&N last night doing the last of my xmass shopping. I wound up in the management section and […]
December 23, 2007 | Code, Innovation | No comments
Microsoft Buzzquotes
“My machine overnight could process my in-box, analyze which ones were probably the most important, but it could go a step further,” he said. “It could interpret some of them, it could look at whether I’ve ever corresponded with these people, it could determine the semantic context, it could draft three possible replies. And when […]
December 16, 2007 | Tech News, Technology | No comments
Shhh! Two new Feedjit widgets quietly being tested
I’m testing two new Feedjit widgets on the right side of this page. We launched the back-end code for these tonight and they’ll only appear on the public site in a week or so after they’ve been thoroughly tested. The first is a simple page popularity widget that has been much-requested by our users. It […]
November 22, 2007 | Startups | No comments
California Fire Satellite Map
I found this image on the awesome http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/ that’s getting a lot of traffic today and is posting a constant stream of fire updates, so be sure to subscribe to his feed if you’re following the fires. Originally from the MODIS Terra polar orbit Satellite (click the image for the source). The fire appears to […]
October 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments