Technology

Some fun nerd facts for you on this gloomy Wednesday morning in Homer, Alaska (where is the fucking sun?) How many punch cards would it take to represent a 3–minute

I’m fascinated with a Google Maps mashups (I prefer “mashup” to “hack”). Having recently read 109 East Palace (yet another very good history of the Manhattan P

A few days ago, I wrote some thoughts on the war on spam. Today Matt Blumberg has an insightful post up on what’s going on in several state legislatures concerning

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