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Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial is a hoot

I just stumbled on the Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial (at "Shoe Circus" of all places!) and it's a real

Sep. 5, 2008 04:51 PM

MyAWOL Becomes LP33.TV, Launches IMDB For Musicians

Last July I wrote about MyAWOL, a web-centric music label looking to compete with traditional labels, which are becoming increasingly less relevant as artists turn to digital distribution methods to gain exposure. While the site has the potential to break some new ground in the online music world, it has run into a major snag during its buildup to launch: its name sounds almost exactly like My.AOL when spoken aloud. In light of this, the company has decided to rename the site to LP33.TV, which

Sep. 5, 2008 04:35 PM

Convention Goofballs on Cellphones

While watching a commentator on Fox, there were a group of goofballs doing what audiences commonly do nowadays, mug for the camera while talking to someone on a cell phone. You see this at sporting events, boxing matches and now at conventions. In my day we would just mug for the camera by ourselves and [...]

Sep. 5, 2008 02:51 PM

Open up your Amazon S3 Account with OpenS3 !

There have been lots of talk about cloud services but the oldest and one of the best is probably Amazon S3 which provides large amounts of free storage. With one catch - it really only provides an API to interact with its bucket structure. This has led to many tools such as Jungle Disk, Bucket Explorer etc which are OK but restrict you to your PC and have their own foibles.Now, I have been using Amazon S3 with two accounts. One I registered myself with Amazon S3 which giv

Sep. 5, 2008 02:49 PM

Fresh Air on John McCain

If you want to understand more about John McCain esp his views of war, I highly recommend this FreshAir interview with David Kirkpatrick of the NY Times, who has been researching McCain's life, esp starting around minute 23, where he talks about lessons McCain learned from Vietnam. It does a lot to explain how he views the war in Iraq, and how he's likely to proceed if he wins the election.

Sep. 5, 2008 02:34 PM

We are hiring

Are you a flex developer? Send me your resume. We need Freelancers and Full Timers. Preferably in the ChicagoLand area, but will consider remote developers for the right candidates. We have needs on several projects, so if you are a flex dev

Sep. 5, 2008 12:24 PM

[ae] Wireless, open Linz

I’m listening to Leon Dubosch via a translator. (German is my best not-English, but it’s not good enough.) Leonard thought about projects that could be done in Linz. Thomas Gegenhuber now speaks. Art reuses what has been created before. (He quotes Lessig.) What can a municipality do? Linz’s homepage is published under CC. Artists who publish their works under a free license gets more money from the government than those who don’t use free licenses. CC here is the defaul

Sep. 5, 2008 07:18 AM

The Really, Really Odd Couple Debuts - Seinfeld and Gates during the Giants Game

The Really, Really Odd Couple - Gates and Seinfeld - debuted last night and you can find the video online everywhere. In this post are my thoughts on the advertisement.

Sep. 5, 2008 06:40 AM

Implimenting Offline Web Content with Gears LocalServer API

I spent the afternoon playing around with Google Gears in order to get a basic feel for how it works. Specifically, I wanted to see how much work it would take to add support for offline viewing for tostring.org (an online book site). I used the Gears LocalServer API which “allows a web application to cache and serve its HTTP resources locally, without a network connection”. The implementation can be though of as a small web server that intercepts requests for remote resources and se

Sep. 5, 2008 03:41 AM

Jules Joseph Merholz

Among the challenging decisions new parents must make is the name of their child. It’s a lifetime commitment, and not something to be taken lightly. We very quickly settled on his middle name, Joseph. It’s my dad and brothers’ middle name, and Stacy’s grandfather’s first name and brother’s middle name. So, a family name on both sides. Done. The first name was trickier. Early on I proposed David, my middle name. I’ve always liked the name David (and when

Sep. 4, 2008 08:28 PM

TIBCO acquires Insightful

Per a recent press release, TIBCO has completed its acquisition of Insightful, known for its S+ statistics language (and with a common ancestry with the open source R langage) as used, amongst others, in the financial industry. S+ and R have had a few mentions in recent CEP blogs: Marc Adler commented on the initial TIBCO Insightful announcement [*1], and the potential for S+ queries in CEP (which is probably true at some level) Hans Gilde commented on improvements to R and responded to Mar

Sep. 4, 2008 07:56 PM

It's easy to mistake what's

It's easy to mistake what's interesting for what's important.

Sep. 4, 2008 04:06 PM

The Art of Raising Venture Capital

These videos are my recent attempt to explain the art of raising venture capital. They are part of the Montgomery & Hansen online learning site and conference. For example, to learn about financing agreements and the term-sheet process, click here. Click on these links for up-to-date information about venture capital, startups, and pitching.

Sep. 4, 2008 11:40 AM

Resuming work on jrawio

jrawio is an ImageI/O plugin for "camera raw" image formats. I've started writing it a few years ago for my Nikon D100, and later extended it for working with a larger number of formats. As far as I know, it...

Sep. 4, 2008 11:27 AM

Do you have an impedance mismatch problem? Users speak up! Second series of user reports published.

I have started a new series of interviews with users of technologies for storing and handling persistent objects, around the globe.6 additional user reports (12-17/08) have been published, from the following users: • Ajay Deshpande, Persistent • Horst Braeuner, City of Schwaebisch Hall • Tore Risch, Uppsala University • Michael Blaha, OMT Associates • Stefan Keller, HSR Rapperswil • Mohammed Zaki, Renssela

Sep. 4, 2008 08:03 AM

I like Google Chrome

I like it - it's simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. I'm sure, Mac and Linux version will be available soon too. The absence of the I like the fact that t

Sep. 3, 2008 11:12 AM

Ajax-heavy Applications on Google Chrome

“This is the best browser so far” is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day. First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven’t found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a little concerned about this, given that the Chrome cartoons say “Javascript runs in its own thread”, which is different from the threading model today. For example, Razor Profiler is a fairly Javascript-heavy web application that I wrote

Sep. 3, 2008 09:02 AM

Question: how to bind SOAP <-> ORM JPA ?

Few days thinking about the best way to copy values between the objects representation of SOAP message elements and JPA entities. I couldn't find a good answer, so I am sharing the question.

Sep. 3, 2008 05:57 AM

Forrester's Five Step Model - Balancing the Strategic and Tactical Aspects of SOA

I had a chance to look at Forrester analyst Randy Heffner’s report on the best way to build SOA (via Joe McKendrick’s Forrester's Five-Step Path to Building SOA). Joe provided a link to the complete report, How to Build Your SOA Platform on ebizQ. Randy writes in the summary, “Building an eﬀective service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform requires cohesive integration of both new product categories, such as SOA repositories and enterprise service buses (ESBs), and existing produ

Sep. 3, 2008 01:28 AM

Half a Million Thanks

A big thank you to all the people who read my Blog for now over a half a million visits ...

Sep. 3, 2008 01:00 AM

The browser war III

Google Chrome, a new open-source browser from Google that builds in parts on Apple's WebKit and in parts on Mozilla Firefox, was announced yesterday and just launched today at 3:02 pm EDT. Here is an interesting twist: most of the technical details about Chrome cannot be found in blog postings or technical web documentation, but rather in the form of a comic book. Talk about weird! But the comic is actually full of very interesting details - definitely worth reading, especially if you are a we

Sep. 2, 2008 03:27 PM

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

In September I’m heading to Germany to present to the German PowerBuilder user group. I’m also working on arrangements to go back over to Europe in November for other locations as well, including (hopefully), England and Switzerland. If

Aug. 29, 2008 05:17 PM

Mashups in Action: A Better Way to Trade

In past 'Mashups in Action' blog we have described mashups used in intelligence analysis, medical research, and most recently a dual-purpose community-building/data-sharing effort for a scientific community. So mashups can help make better spies, better doctors and better scientists. But other than the occasional flu shot, I don't expect most of us have much exposure to these professions.Today's Mashup In Action story is about trading, a profession you have better odds of encountering in yo

Aug. 28, 2008 02:56 PM

StackOverflow Podcast #19

This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 19. Jeff and I spent some time talking about the home page for StackOverflow. What goes there? What does it mean to vote on a question? We also talked about Aaron Swartz's article on How to Launch Software. Big-bang launches can be disasters (viz.: cuil); quiet, gentle launches without announcements where you slowly build can work a lot better (viz.: Gmail). Will StackOverflow's launch overwhelm our servers and underwhelm our audience? Not

Aug. 28, 2008 10:02 AM

Early Draft OSGi V4.2 Docs Available

As of this week you can download an early release draft document containing 11 design documents we've been working on for the past year or so as the result of the OSGi enterprise initiative. This is important because according to OSGi Alliance rules, only members are allowed access to working drafts of documents. This is the first time we've released any of these drafts publicly. As a board member and EEG co-chair, I'm very pleased to see this happen because (a) I often get asked about what's

Aug. 26, 2008 06:20 PM

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela

They were amazing at the Outside Lands Festival yesterday.

Posted: Aug. 26, 2008 03:19 AM

Robinson Crusoe

Such a book as Robinson Crusoe never was written, and never will be written again. I have tried that book for years -- generally in combination with a pipe of tobacco -- and I have found it my friend in need in all the necessities of this mortal life

Posted: Aug. 22, 2008 08:57 PM

It really does work

(via Chris Dixon)

Posted: Aug. 1, 2008 12:05 PM

Joining Hunch

After hanging up my purple and yellow cleats, dodging some headhunters, taking a brief vacation, hanging out at some very hot board meetings and pondering the future of social software, it was fairly obvious that I was going to have to do another so

Posted: Jul. 30, 2008 10:40 PM

Darwin Disappearance

I've been following the John and Anne Darwin story on the BBC, a couple who faked the husband's death to collect insurance. The latest article is about what you should and shouldn't do in order to disappear effectively. Apparently CCTV cameras are a

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 03:02 PM

Darwin Disappearance

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 03:02 PM

Some charming things about my father

A day late: His friends used to call him Bog Pete, because, when hiking, he always managed to lead them into bogs. He can play "5 foot 2, Eyes of Blue" on the ukulele. Every night, or almost every night, for years and years, at bedtime, he would te

Posted: Jun. 16, 2008 04:34 PM

Some charming things about my father

Posted: Jun. 16, 2008 04:34 PM

Even if you can't

Even if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least you can try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk Do not degrade it by dragging it along taking it around and exposing it s

Posted: Jun. 14, 2008 11:26 AM

Even if you can't

Posted: Jun. 14, 2008 11:26 AM