July 2010
June 2010
Fat Guy in a little coat, Ruby on Windows →
There’s just too much awesome in Ruby for a clean windows install and development environment.
Just yesterday I started laying the pavement for using…
Highs and Lows Come and Go, But Will is Relentless →
Back in December I mentioned the importance of persistence with respect to anything worth doing. It’s the most important single predictor of future success or failure. I’ve updated…
Analogy and Machine Intelligence →
Solutions for analogous situations act as a generic jump start to problem solving. While the hard definition of an analogy escapes quantification, (i.e. how analogous…
Fuck you iOS dev team →
iOS 4 now attempts to sync notes wiping them out
After spending an hour and a half writing up a post on analogies, machine intelligence and popular web apps that perform aspects of…
Welcome to Ruby, Javascript and Ubuntu Linux Ben →
You asked for the Firehose
My friend Ben Carroll recently expressed some interest in learning the basics of web programming through a high level scripting language….
Money →
A comment I tried to leave on AVC today with respect to company buy backs of stock:
I always thought buybacks were a method of investing in one’s own company, I can see now how…
When Teaching Fishing, Bait the Hook →
Hack, Tweak, & Share
After some blog tweaking last night I left it with a new theme, the twenty ten wordpress.com default theme. One of the brilliant aspects of…
Scale Invariant Patterns →
The harder we search, the more patterns we find
Have you ever caught yourself staring at a white noise screen, or listening to static and seen or heard a signal? It’s…
The Promise of Telepresence, the Reality of Blogs,... →
We are hardwired to understand subtle social signals. Complimenting the innate, there are complex forms of social pattern recognition learned as children that our minds instantly…
How Investor Signaling Reduces Info Glut →
Separating curiousity from necessity is a topic I’ve broached here before. There comes a point of data saturation when too many voices shout to be heard, that we reflexively shut…
The Web Stack for Dummies (like me) →
pancake stacks are better than web stacks
Let’s follow some bytes as they make the journey from their source server to a client system over HTTP.
Server Hardware
Evolution Accelerates, We’re Changing Faster →
The hypothesis is that our world is accelerating it’s evolution, perhaps not physically but culturally*.
We are in the very midst of major social and…
Tech Echos, Hackers and DJs →
Trey Ratcliff hacks out nature and photo tech with his HDR magic
Early adopting members of the tech savy crowd experience the boon and bane of raw and unpolished software…
Bloated Wireless Phone Bills →
We need more power kiptin
For the second time in two months my iPhone 3Gs battery failed to take a charge. The guys at the store were helpful but I’m not a big fan of…
Social Mobility, Cultural Hegemony, and the Social... →
Cultural Hegemony represents a Marxist philosophy that one social class among many rules over the others to prop itself up.
Cultural hegemony is the philosophic and sociological…
Victus Media Tete a Tete →
This week in San Francisco I got the chance to finally meet up with my cofounder after just over 7 months of working together. It was a pleasure talking in person with…
The value of social networks is the type of... →
We judge neighborhoods by the beauty painted on their buildings. We judge property values by the quality of their school districts. We judge restaurants by their ambiance….
Nationalism, ideals worth living for →
crematorium markers at Calverton Cemetery
Tomorrow is flag day, which triggered thoughts of nationalism. I’m not a person easily bound to others by geolocation or…
Why VCs prefer firing founders →
Getting kicked out of your own company means watching your ownership position going down hill fast
AVC Community Speaks Up on Founder Firing
Fred Wilson brought up the…
Persona Polarizes →
Just a couple of days ago, my long time friend Nate had a bit of a social web run in on Buzz with popular tech blogger Robert Scoble.
I regularly read and enjoy…
