links, random thoughts, various opinions
I was going to post this to our company (internal) site - but also thought I related to it personally. This company [EasyDNS], is one we use to manage the URL’s that our customers web systems use. Since we started working with them we’ve found them professional and reliable - in general a […]
Happy Halloween! This is the first one I can remember (maybe I was away last year…?) where the weather has been so good. It should be raining and miserable out. I actually used to live in a haunted house (or so everyone in the neighbourhood now thinks). More on that later […]
Another beautiful fall Vancouver day. Thanks for the photo Derek.
Wired 10.11: VIEW
“Today’s technological revolution has so far lasted between two and six times as long as previous revolutions. It is between five and ten times as fast, a race between a cheetah and a possum. And it is a larger share of the economy. It changes what people do in their work, where it […]
Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo!
When we started web programming we used PHP for cost/speed (after originally trying a much more complicated/faulty application server program). Now it seems to have been one of our best decisions, and it’s a platform we’re totally committed to for the web side of our applicaitons.
Microsoft Tablet PC technology a stroke of genius.
“Remember how spotty and shabby your handwriting appeared on some early electronic pads? Not this time. The Microsoft/Acer Tablet splendidly reproduces the human scrawl. Every stroke of the pen appears as clear and smooth as ink on paper. You can even make your pen strokes darker […]
Kevin posts about the evolving nanotech field -
“Imagine a vehicle that could change colour at the flick of a switch, or detect paint flaws or corrosion and report it back to your mechanic. Well the US military has proposed the use of nanotech paints…” - [this article]
I’ve followed this field since Eric Drexler’s […]
I’m in the process of moving to this blog - Version 3.0 for me, it will be interesting to see where it goes - Thanks Ryan.
For my old blog check out Ramblings on Life, Business and Too Much Travel.
You ever forget how good music (let alone life is)? It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to 3rd Eye Blind. Forgot how good they are; especially the Red Album.
Remarkably I won last years hockey pool. I believe my pool members were picked almost at random or the ‘next best team’ method - it’s an interesting and lazy method but it seemed to work. [says a lot about the experts] Although I am Canadian my hockey knowledge (other than drinking at […]
Blogger is a great product. It made me comfortable with the idea of publishing weblogs and is an exceptionally good example of a useable and fast browser based application.
So why am I switching…well to begin with I’m lucky that I have a friend who can administer a web server that can run […]
Blogger Crash Comments.
“Blogger is, now, at exactly the same security level it was two days ago, minus the vulnerability that caused this hack. Your sensitive information (by that, I don’t mean things like your public URL) is no more or less vulnerable than it’s always been. You can use your feelings about that […]
The Case Against Professionalism.
“…It is easy to forget that professionalism is the enemy of the high-tech startup. If these companies were operated by professionals, they would never have been founded. Nor would a professional tolerate the conditions necessary for startup survival. Michael Eisner never emptied a wastebasket at work, but I’ll […]
The Post and Publish Internet.
“As pub/sub and asynchronous messaging get baked into the Web services stack, things are going to get a whole lot more interesting…Queued messaging, also known as store-and-forward, is part of the “loosely coupled” architecture now envisioned for Web services. Pub/sub is based on queues, but it’s not just about point-to-point communication. […]
Happy Birthday Aunty Mary - always there, always supportive, always giving.
In our market there is considerable development going on where competing companies are put to working together by clients trying to build the best solution. As we’ve grown I’ve grown to be less afraid of someone copying our ideas. As someone put it once “the best companies are too busy making their own stuff work.” […]
Internet Backbone Withstands Attack.
“The Internet withstood what appears to have been a major assault on its core infrastructure late Monday when all 13 of its root servers were attacked, according to a spokesman for VeriSign, which operates two of the servers. The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack started at about 5 p.m. Eastern Time […]
Our company is moving right now, so things are a bit hectic…not so much time to post (and I’m behind in my work too - a lot of it requires writing which I’m not a huge fan of), wish I could ‘talk’ specification documents together. I’m also thinking of moving to Moveabletype as my blog […]
There is a demand for broadband - I Want My Show Now.
“With video-on-demand, customers can order movies and other content through the cable set-top-box. Unlike existing pay-per-view services, viewers can stop and start the show at any time, and are also able to rewind, fast-forward or pause the program, just like using a standard […]
No one would dispute Dan Savage’s liberal view of the world, Andrew Sullivan (in short not generally considered a political liberal to put it finely) points to his [Dan’s] latest article about why war with Iraq is worthwhile, his column was inspired by the anti Iraq war poster “No to War! No to Oppression!” -
“…You […]