July 2009
2 posts
Fads
Granite counters, hardwood floors, and stainless-steel appliances… The shag carpeting of our generation.
Offline web apps
Right now, people are working on technology to make web apps that are still usable when the user is offline. Google, notably, is working on that problem with things like Google Gears and Chrome OS.
At the same time, other people are working on ubiquitous network access.
Right now, neither one is quite there, but I’m guessing that, in a bit irony, the offline web-app thing is going to be...
April 2009
8 posts
“Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?”
– http://wordsmith.org/words/perendinate.html
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use...”
– http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html
Stuff I Don't Need
I left the TV on today, because I needed some background noise while I was working. At one point, “How I Met Your Mother” came on, and one of the characters said something about cleaning out his place and about how he made a box labeled something like “stuff I don’t need any more.” It made me look around my own place and realize I should do the same thing.
I have a...
Failing the Turing Test
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of captchas that I can’t read. I thought the whole point of captchas was that humans can read them, but machine can’t. Am I failing the Turing Test?
http://xkcd.com/329/
March 2009
1 post
Learning to use Git
Imagine three guys sitting in a room together. OK, only two of them are physically present, and the third is logged in remotely, but it’s the next best thing to being there.
They’re reasonably intelligent and competent men, all with experience using version-control systems.
They sit in that room for many hours trying to figure out how to use git and what an appropriate git-based...