Technology

I was on a board call for a company today where we talked about “acceptable downtime” for their web-based service. This company has commercial customers that depend on its software [

I was sitting in a meeting with Ryan McIntyre and his cell phone went off. His ringtone sounded vaguely familiar but I couldn’t quite place it. I told him. He

I’m a Firefox fiend (extension count going up daily; Greasemonkey security fears acknowledged) and I just found out that if you have multiple tabs, you can go to tab N

Joshua from del.icio.us just commented on my for:bradfeld post about tagging things in del.icio.us for me. Joshua has changed how the “for:“ prefix works and the right way to tag

I woke up one day (yesterday) and all of a sudden I’m using Skype all the time (including SkypeOut). What changed? First, I’m at my house in Alaska and my

Fred Wilson clued me into a fun use of del.icio.us. He calls it the “for:“ tag. He set one up for his wife Joanne (Gotham Gal). Whenever he wants her

I stumbled over Edward Tufte’s Sparklines this morning. Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is one of my favorite books and his essay The Cognitive Style of P

I have used a two monitor setup for several years (I’m about to try three just for the hell of it.) I discovered Ultramon the other day, downloaded it, and

I started my summer school program today. Yeah – I know it’s Saturday – but so what. I turned off my email (eek) and settled into an hour of Brian

As I wander around in summer school, I’ve been working my way through Brian Harvey’s Computer Science Logo Style 2/e, Vol. 1: Symbolic Computing. So far I’m finding Harvey to [