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Kids say the darndest things
Came across this as I was going over some old email. My son was reading "The Pushcart War" by Jean Merrill (1964). My wife was talking to him one evening as they discussed the project he was going to...
View ArticleWho is Linkie-Winkie and why should I care?
Have you heard of linkie winkie? No?, well neither have I.Everybody's talking about it. See if your site has been linkie-winkie'd. Nope, I'm not telling. You have to figure this linkie winkie thing...
View ArticleWhat is wrong with you people??
Back in February I told you about World Community Grid. I explained how the computing power that sits almost 90% unused on the PCs you have at home, at work, and in school could be used to save lives....
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Traveler's Insurance Gets Security Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Thanks to Joel Spolsky for the scan of the Traveler's Insurance ad in Inc. magazine: Forget the geek stereotype stuff. Like the rest of humanity, you can find techies who fit stereotypes and techies...
View ArticleHow not to improve a grocery store
I went to the Gristede's supermarket (well, supermarket as it's defined in Manhattan) the other morning because we were out of milk. It was too early for the D'Agostinos to be open. I haven't been...
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Aboutus.org
I came across Aboutus.org recently. I like it. They spider sites and pick just the About Us page. Since it's a Wiki, you can also edit your page. So if the spider picks up the wrong About Us page, or...
View ArticleThe PATH and the Second Avenue Subway
When the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was laying out where its tracks and stations would go, the plans included a connection to the East Side via Astor Place and then on to Grand Central Station....
View ArticleThe Ambassador of Lindy Hop
A new book is due out this May chronicling the life and career of Frankie Manning, the "inventor" of the air-step in the Lindy Hop. Manning was a dancer at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early...
View ArticleHiring and Applicants from Mars (or they might as well be)
Well, it's time for me to start hiring again. And slowly, despite years of experience, I convince myself that it's OK to post jobs on craigslist and dice and to allow the job posting pages on our...
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Kit Kat Needs You!
From : Calling all men! We want YOU - this kitty seems to respond more openly to gentlemen than to women. KitKat has been waiting for a new home for far too long ? since March 2007! Kit Kat often gets...
View ArticleRead the RFCs! That's why they're there!
Once again, I've been told that an IP address can only have one PTR resource record. We got a new Internet connection in the office, and I requested 2 PTR records for an IP address on that connection...
View ArticleNew Hardware Requirements For the Next Version of Windows?
Microsoft and Cray have announced a new supercomputer that runs Windows. I think this is a pretty good indicator of the minimum hardware requirements for the next version> of Windows.
View ArticleA chance to make the commuter tax productive
Mayor Bloomberg has used the financial crisis as an opportunity to once again bring up the issue of a commuter tax. The State Assembly (read Sheldon Silver, who represents a district in NYC) is...
View ArticleApropos of Nothing, my $0.02 on Detroit
The "big 3" automakers are no longer the real US auto production base. Honda, Nissan, Toyota (and their "hidden" brands) make cars for the US market here, and their sales are a significant part of...
View ArticleNoSQL vs. Relational
Well, first of all, I suppose I need to have at least one blog entry per year, so this one just makes it. For the last few months, I've been putting more and more data structures into MongoDB instead...
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