““Sir, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake.”” ^[1]^

The biggest milkshake in the software world is Microsoft’s. For 20 years, if you wanted to make money by writing retail software, you did …

My most recent column for SD Times questions the rationality of Apple having a higher market capitalization that Microsoft.

“You cannot get rich selling your own time.” -- Scott Adams^[1]^

You can, however, make great fortunes selling things. When I was a kid, there was a girl in school who was heir to a pencil fortune; every time you took a standardized test and filled in one of those …

You may have noticed a dramatic shift in my online presence over the past few months. At the beginning of May, I more-or-less shut down Twitter, flushed the cache from my RSS reader, and stopped watching Red Sox games on MLB Live (well... mostly). This was in service to the …

• Christopher Walken performs Poker Face: http://bit.ly/aLn0DU #
• 2 hours and my app hasn't been approved yet... ARGH!!!!!! #
• 20/20 vision is ability to discriminate two lines or pixels at 1 arcminute (1/60th of 1 degree). #things_I_never_knew #
• Hawaiians Poised For USA Coup d'Etat: http://nymag …

• Upgrading my iPhone stack: phone OSs, SDK, MonoTouch, MonoDev. See you in July! #
• Ex-submariner sez "Conventional explosives to plug leak." But wouldn't that collapse work-to-date on relief wells? http://nyti.ms/djdiHr #
• Writing this using a bluetooth keyboard paired with my iPhone 3Gs. Finally! #
• Trying to remember last SF novel …

Capture the magic of the 2010 World Cup! Play with friends! Intuitive controls! Neverending replay value!

• Me want 300DPI screens. #
• Thank god the new iPhone has a gyroscope. FINALLY we'll have more realistic lightsaber apps. #
• The iPhone developmnt missing manual book from ORA is must have at full price. At \$10 : steal #
• When aapl starts migrating those 300DPI screens to iPad and Macbooks -- watch out #
• How …

• Freedive "base jump" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0 #
• Is Atlassian having trouble with their servers (specifically, my.atlassian.com -- I keep timing out)? #jira #
• It's amazing how fast a storage medium becomes obsolete. I'm looking at my half-gone spindle of CDs and wondering how many years old it …