My co-worker, Kevin, recently filmed the pilot episode of a new reality series on “A Startup in a Week”. A team of startup guys, including Adam Loving, built a Facebook app to raise money for good causes like building a school in Cambodia.
There are 5 episodes, and some fun drama — debates over how to monetize the app, […]
Fresh from the inaugural cabal of ‘08, I wanted to do some automated processing tasks on my iTunes library. I was delighted to see how easy it is to do this using LINQ to XML.
The iTunes library XML file is a rather awkward format. The semantics are dependant on document node ordering, which is just […]
A number of people have asked me for more details about the situation in Tibet. I’ve realized that I have a tendency to excoriate the hypocrisy in the press without necessarily offering much additional in the way of compensatory education. So I’d like to remedy things by explaining the facts in more detail.
First, read this […]
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen some clever westerner use Wikipedia as an example of how the poor Chinese people are denied happiness by a censorious government. CNET is currently propagating the meme, claiming that “Wikipedia missing China’s voice“.
That’s like looking at the server logs for the Milwaukee Herald and concluding that “Chinese […]