Did you know that Costco is not only a top-tier wholesaler for goods like computers, office products, and pharmaceuticals, but also sells urns and caskets off their website? Neither did I until just now. Costco’s urns and caskets features The Mot...
I’m flying down to San Francisco tomorrow for a nice, long relaxing weekend (Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning). Napa, fireworks, my birthday, Helen, how could it possibly be better? ;-) My boss, Jason, burst into my office this afternoon askin...
I was cleaning up some backend code of mine last week and ended up introducing a bug into the Chimp Tunes code that: Updates song titles in the database. Downloads cover art for display in your Snooze window. I finally figured out what was ...
Hannibal of Ars Technica visited Wired Magazine’s disappointing NextFest: I know if I were Japanese, I’d collect both models and watch them fight over a half gram of mescaline. Oh yeah, and for the five people I haven’t told yet, I’m off to Paris...
I was pointed at this by Larry Osterman’s weblog today. It’s a paper written by Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft) for the ACM97 conference entitled The Next 50 Years of Software. It does a lot to explain software bloat, the changing role o...
I had a terrific time at Tech Ed in Orlando last week, although I’m afraid that my liver is a bit under the weather now. I’m not going to bother rehashing the million other things that have already been said about it, except to plug the podcast vi...
A couple random games I’m looking forward to: Killer 7 - Gamecube - July 6 2005 Indigo Prophecy - Xbox - September 6 2005
The always inimitable Audrey of Seattlest fame just mentioned that Philip K. Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It’s about time, in my opinion. Dick’s storytelling has done more to shape modern science fiction than just about...
I made a donation just now to the ACLU. Although I have always supported them in spirit, I decided now was a perfect opportunity to support them financially. I make more than enough money to support causes dedicated to–among other causes–Gay and L...