Dumb Ideas
Thursday, February 24th, 2005Good heavens! Beer with caffeine. People who like to mix stimulants with depressants (at the same time)are few in number and short-lived; this is not an attractive market.
Archive for February, 2005
Son of Smart Tags
Monday, February 21st, 2005The debate over Smart Tags has errupted again. Microsoft was forced to pull the feature 4 years ago, but Google has stolen the idea and is running with it. Dave, Rogers, and othersare screaming bloody murder. Four years ago, I argued that the idea was impossible to stop, and that Google was a likely candidate […]
Lisp vs. Smalltalk
Sunday, February 20th, 2005Don Box is considering what programming language to teach to best round-out his children. When teaching programming as a way to balance a child, rather than to accomplish specific programming tasks, it’s interesting to think about the thought patterns that the language encourages or enforces.
Languages like Basic, C, and Assembler always bothered me, because they […]
iPod Transitions
Sunday, February 20th, 2005Dave just went through the distress of losing his iPod, finding it, and apparently losing it again. I know how it feels. This Friday, I dropped my iPod while it was running, and it does nothing now but click and whir. Luckily all of my music, including several hundred dollars of purchased songs and books, […]
What’s up with sxip?
Thursday, February 10th, 2005So all of the smart people say that sxip is the ultimate single-signon system. The docs look nice enough. But how am I supposed to use it? I can’t find a single ?HomeServer? listed on the site. If I have to implement my own server to get logins, it’s not very SSO, is it?
Additionally, I’m […]