Jeff Atwood's brief post on Ted Nelson's Xanadu ~~failed to~~ mention[ed briefly]{style="color:red"} the aspect of Xanadu that I expected to be worked out by now, which is that links were bidirectional in Xanadu. The closest thing the Web has are trackbacks / pingbacks, which are problematic to …
more ...One of the great delights about Hawaii is the diversity you get at events where one might expect a niche crowd. At today's Big Island Internet meet-up, there were entrepreneurs, people commending the "global consciousness" enabled by the Internet, and a surprising number of martial artists.
The speaker, Tom Callos …
Novell's MonoTouch makes iPhone development much more appealing for enterprise developers, but enterprise development on the iPhone requires solid database solutions (Want to understand enterprise development? Follow the data).
I have begun investigating DB solutions for the iPhone, by which I mean solutions whereby the iPhone can access the big …
more ...If I lived in AZ, CQ, FL, NY, TX, or WA, I'd have this on my iPhone in two seconds.
Integrity Logic - Geology AZ .
more ...Apparently the person who we told to move the car every week didn't. The left rear wheel of my (front-wheel drive) car will not turn; the right turns fine. I jacked up the car and applied considerable leverage to the wheel, but it still won't turn. I took off the …
more ...What do you do if a client stiffs you?
Twice in my career, clients have decided not to pay my invoices. Once, after delivering a component, a client seems to have made the simple decision that the amount of my final invoice was less than what it would cost me …
more ...The only thing nicer than vacationing in Hawai'i is getting on a plane and realizing that you're going back home... to Hawai'i.
Tina and I spent the Summer in Milwaukee, where her parents live. Unfortunately, the Summer for me was dominated by rotten work developments.
I had planned on doing …
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Machu Picchu Selects (31 Photos)
One of the many things that I haven't had time to pursue this year is a determination to do some hardware hacking. One aspect that's been a challenge is moving between the joy of "stick a wire in a breadboard and see what happens" and schematics (I'm sure for the …
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