March 2010
8 posts
Mar 24th
todo.txt
Lately I’ve been working on this project for a guy. It’s mostly just me working on it and I was using a todo.txt file to list things that needed to get done. One day I wanted to clean off my desktop a bit and I thought that this file could easily be trashed if I just put all my todo’s in a bug tracking system. It was easy to do and on top of that it gave me sorting and...
Mar 19th
Google suggestions A to Z
This is an old blog post that I wrote a few months back. I didn’t think it was very good so I didn’t post it. But today I’m cleaning off my desktop and I felt bad just throwing it away. -Timmy Christensen I typed in one letter into the Google search box and grabbed the first suggestion and these were the results. Some of the suggestions are pretty obvious but if they are based on user trends,...
Mar 19th
Hosting Node Apps →
I really want to learn how to get rolling with Node. I think it will be fun and interesting to see where this develops.
Mar 16th
I think Techdirt got it right on the issue of ad...
If you are running a media site, if you’re having trouble making money, it’s your fault. Don’t blame your readers. Don’t blame your community by telling them they’re “devastating” a site by blocking ads or failing to pay for a paywall. As the producers of that site, it’s your responsibility to do things to get that site paid for. via Techdirt
Mar 8th
How to alienate your friends and block off...
Aaron Swartz wrote a little blog post entitled HOWTO: Read More Books. Sounds great, right? Wrong! The basics of reading more books include such steps as “alienate everyone close to you”, “block your favorite blogs” (where he suggests that you unplug your TV and literally block your favorite websites at the router level) and “keep the temperature low”. Sounds fine if you’re a monk whose...
Mar 2nd
Remember when I wrote this post?
Remember when I wrote this post? (1 year ago) Well … it came true!
Mar 2nd
Organization
A Muslim, a Christian, and a crazy guy walk into a room. The one thing you can know for sure is that at least two out of three of them organize their lives around things that aren’t real. via Scott Adams Blog I organize myself around my TV schedule. I should probably change that.
Mar 2nd