October 2009
2 posts
First & 20 →
Collection of screenshots and descriptions of iPhone home screens for thought leaders. Simple, stupid, but interesting and useful.
Democrats stand up for gay rights, expand "hate... →
So I understand the U.S. LGB community feeling that the Democrats haven’t done enough to support gay rights. But claims that they haven’t done anything are wide of the mark. The passing of this expansion is key to ensuring that people can be open about their sexual orientation without fear of violence.
May 2009
1 post
The Dangers of the Internet
The Internet is a scary, scary place and lots of bad things can happen to you online. This is the story of something that happened to.
There I was, happily reading Reddit. And a link comes up for “100 cover versions of Stairway to Heaven”. Long story short: I just listened to Dolly Parton singing “Stairway to Heaven”. Once it started, I was paralysed and couldn’t...
April 2009
3 posts
Eyeglasses With a Digital Dimension - NYTimes.com →
Ah, the long awaited return of Heads-Up Displays. Sounds like it would have too much trouble training users for the alternative interaction methods. Too intrusive if its useful, too useless if its not.
15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website →
March 2009
3 posts
100 Terrific Web Design Cheat Sheets →
Great list of cheat sheets for web developers. The truth though is that you should read this page once. Find the cheat sheets that work for you, and bookmark those. Having a 100 cheat sheets is more inefficient than having none.
A rogue CA? Now that's dangerous.
Well this is a new one for me. Rather than look for a short term phishing attack, I’m now getting spam that is targeting a nice long-term compromise of my machine:
"Beginning March 17, 2009, the Northern Trust Business Passport Center will use a new Certification Authority (CA) to issue end-user certificates. If no one in your organization has a digital certificate, you will need to...
Twilio →
Twilio is probably the best “cloud” service I’ve seen so far. Yes, even better than AWS. Telephony is just really hard, and not worth doing yourself. That’s one thing thats not really true (ignoring scalability) for any of the popular AWS services. Great job.
February 2009
7 posts
Amazon Exposes 1 Terabyte of Public Data to... →
Almost every time Amazon does something new for Amazon Web Services, its awesome. This is no exception.
$100 Linux plug-in device →
More geekiness. But this device sounds like a major step toward ubiquitous computing. The price point and capabilities combine well to create a really viable device. The next step is to see how Marvell gets people to build game-changing apps on it. As a platform it sounds great, but platforms don’t change the world on their own.
Explanations to common Java exceptions →
Geek humor at its finest.
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should... →
So I'm going to finally check out tumblr...