Apple is apparently refusing to accept cash for iPhones. I have a feeling this policy will last less than 24 hours, as there's significant intersection among the set of people who would purchase iPhones and the set of people who will get into quite a snit about "This note is …

I hate to be an American League fan-boy, but now that The Curse has been broken, the truth is that the World Series was pretty anti-climactic. (Not that anything could be as dramatic as the 2004 Sox-Yankees series.)

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Pt. 1, Pt. 2, and \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink%2cguid%2cb9661672-40f8-4e8f-a26e-985fdffd5d2b.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pt. 3

One reason why it's very difficult to make a living writing about software development is that while traditional publications were deadline-driven, online outlets are marketing-driven. When there's a …

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My nephew Jake went to a friend's bar mitzvah at the Radisson in Scranton, PA. Apparently, the cast of The Office is in town doing a little goodwill and presumably shooting some exteriors (although I don't know why they need to -- the scenes they've been using look totally like Northeastern …

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This might be better as a series of Twitter "thinking about..." posts, but since I don't really "get" Twitter, I'll jot down this nagging concern here...

I was reading this excellent post on \<a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/coredump/archive/2007/10/19/116178.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer …

My ever-fitful comment system is apparently acting up, so from my email come these comments in reference to this post :

I wonder if "cron" would also be a relevant addition to mashup. One of the things I tried to achieve with a Yahoo Pipe and a Google Mashup was to …

IronRuby Program Manager John Lam regarding JRuby's \<a href="http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ola Bini:

LOB: If you and Ola Bini were bungie-chorded into a steel cage supplied with mauls, chainsaws, and a copy of Bentley's "Programming Pearls," which of you would survive?

JL: Well …

I assume that this is a joke / conceptual art statement but it does remind me of the thought processes of young nerds that are so failure-prone: "If only I elaborate the logical inconsistency of the bully's statements, he will no longer have the temerity to call me names!" On the …