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Jun 29, 2005
iRooster

Chimp Tunes working better again

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 ...

Jun 28, 2005
Random Funniness

A Half-Gram of Mescaline

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...

Jun 21, 2005
Personal Life
Jun 17, 2005
Technology

The Next 50 Years of Software

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...

Jun 14, 2005
Personal Life

Tech Ed Was a Blast

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...