Jacob's Crystal Ball
Jacob Kaplan-Moss is peering into the future. Just five years into the future, but the future nonetheless. I totally agree with his predictions. Especially the offline-apps and iPhone-clone-as-platform...
View ArticleHow not to define yourself…
Jonathan Messinger on a slight shift in language. A great essay on the difficulty of being an independent [anything], and how defining yourself in terms of something else is a bad thing.
View ArticleI am Shockingly Naive
Last week(ish) The Washington Post published and article on micro-targeting political advertisements, essentially using data mining techniques to send super-targeted ads to households. It was a good...
View ArticleWelcome Baby Wil
Our first baby, William Christopher McAvoy, was born at 9 am on August 4th.
View ArticlePyglet Great, Math Hard
I’ve blogged about my random obsession with bees in the past. The release of Pyglet encouraged me to pick it up again and try to make a bee-system associated with coordinates rather than with abstract...
View ArticlePigeon Man of Lincoln Square Killed
This is tremendously sad news. Pigeon man was a fixture on the corner across the street from Walgreens. From the article: “Soon as I take a seat, they want to be loved and kissed like a mama’s baby,”...
View ArticlePragmatic Timeline
So, according to the Pragmatic Programmers you should learn a new language every year (two? I don’t remember for sure.) Last year I specifically ignored this rule, and instead opted to learn Python...
View ArticleEveryblock
I’ve been treading water this week, and haven’t been keeping up with the blogosphere. So, I’m behind, but wanted to link to Everyblock…you know…so it’s linked. Really great stuff, congrats Blockheads.
View ArticleMagic Tech Words from the Obama Team
I heard mashup and cloud computing. Despite the buzz-ish nature of both, it’s an encouraging sign. As much as I love Everyblock, I think they’d agree that it would be nice to see the federal, state...
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