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The Wisdom of Crowds

The crowd is always right during a trend but is always wrong at a major turning point. Good food for thought.

drunkenbatman

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Slashdot has its Moments

Every now and then, someone on Slashdot actually does say something useful: I personally look forward to the day when the GOP has something to do with, you know, conservatism again. “Spend responsibly” rolls off the tounge better than “constant w...

The One Where I Get Shiny, New Hardware

I received my new laptop at long-last today. On average, Program Managers in my group can expect to get new laptops every 24 months. Last month I celebrated my two-year anniversary with Microsoft by ordering a shiny, new Sony Vaio S580. Well, trut...

Web 1.0!!!

There are some pictures from the recent Web 1.0 Summit in San Francisco over on Flickr. The comments are the best part, by far. My favorite thus far: Is there still room in the “Photoshop: Page Curl Explorations” seminar?

James Kirk

Alarm Clocks

There are quite a few different alarm clock software packages out there for the Mac and Windows. There are some interesting patterns that immediately present themselves. One of the most obvious is that the Windows alarm clocks out there appear to ...

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Movable Type 3.2 Can Bite Me

Without a doubt, my absolute favorite keyboard shortcut in IE 6 is Alt+D, which moves focus to the address bar. Movable Type 3.2, which I just installed, thoughtfully overrides this keyboard shortcut with its access key for Delete. Sigh. C’mon guy...

Producing Software, the Easy Way

OK, so the post title is a total lie. There really is no easy way to produce and sell software. There are varying degrees of difficulty that can be associated with software development, though. When I started working on iRooster I never really in...