Flyover Country

I’m flying down to San Francisco tomorrow for a nice, long relaxing weekend (Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning). Napa, fireworks, my birthday, Helen, how could it possibly be better?
My boss, Jason, burst into my office this afternoon asking me if I could hit IKEA with him to buy what would work out [...]

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I was cleaning up some backend code of mine last week and ended up introducing a bug into the Chimp Tunes code that:
1. Updates song titles in the database.
2. Downloads cover art for display in your Snooze window.
I finally figured out what was causing this (dumb mistake on my [...]

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Hannibal of Ars Technica visited Wired Magazine’s disappointing NextFest: I know if I were Japanese, I’d collect both models and watch them fight over a half gram of mescaline.
Oh yeah, and for the five people I haven’t told yet, I’m off to Paris for five days in early July. Looks like it’ll be [...]

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I was pointed at this by Larry Osterman’s weblog today. It’s a paper written by Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft) for the ACM97 conference entitled The Next 50 Years of Software. It does a lot to explain software bloat, the changing role of the PC in everyday life, blah blah blah. You know, the [...]

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I had a terrific time at Tech Ed in Orlando last week, although I’m afraid that my liver is a bit under the weather now. I’m not going to bother rehashing the million other things that have already been said about it, except to plug the podcast video taken with me at the conference (available [...]

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