When developers were writing C, C++ or Java code in the old days, we used to say that the software development process was a seemingly endless cycle of (1) coding, (2) compiling the code, (3) testing the code. Ideally, you want to spend most of your time coding and testing rather than performing mundane tasks [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Circling Idiots
3/31/2006 – 11:54 am
There are a few rotaries (or roundabouts, if you prefer) near my house and I always approach them with a sense of impending doom, as if I was about to jump into a pool of sharks. In fact, I’ve been hit once by a retarded driver (not sure if that’s a medically accurate description, but [...]
The RIAA in 1979
3/28/2006 – 8:43 am
On the back of a 1979 LP record that lived in my parents’ basement for the past 20-odd years is the following statement: This record has been engineered and manufactured in accordance with standards developed by the recording industry association of america, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of recorded music and literature. [...]
Google Music Search?
3/23/2006 – 7:54 pm
Why is it that I am just finding out about Google Music Search now?
Hindsight is 20/20
3/23/2006 – 3:32 pm
The seeds for del.icio.us were planted here, way back in 1998. Another wonderful quote from the same document written all those years ago: Recently a new web indexing service was developed at Stanford University by the name of Google which is based on the debatably innovative idea of determining a document’s significance based on the [...]
Things I have overheard recently
3/20/2006 – 1:43 pm
A few choice quotes from recent adventures: “Gold is the new silver” at a shop in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA “60 is the new 30″ at a dinner party “40 is the new 30″ at a 40th birthday party Woman: I’m going to work in Bill’s new Web 2.0 group Man: Cool, with AJAX and [...]