February 2009
87 posts
Needed to go to Home Depot. Went to the Apple Store instead. And so it goes.
Pretty sure that Crossgates mall is the worst place in the world. Alas, that’s where the Apple store is and where I must go.
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less... →
Just found a pretty sweet bug. But I think I found it before the clients! Getting close to ending the ol’ work day. Working on the weekend
Dailymotion - #87.2 - YEASAYER - 2080, une vidéo... →
Awesome yeasayer video!
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending -... →
And so it began…
Awesome Charmed & Dangerous show! http://twitpic.com/1q43f http://twitpic.com/1q42d http://twitpic.com/1q436 http://twitpic.com/1q42v
Can’t say no to this.
How A Newspaper Covers Its Own Demise (SSP) →
“We’ve pasted the whole story here because we think it’s newsworthy, but you should click through to see the article in its context.” — There are so many things wrong there…
Charmed and Dangerous burlesque at the Lark Tavern tonight! w00t!!!
At Edgewood. Champions League. Bros. IPA. Friends. LML.
Application Environment Setup Using... →
/etc/profile.d is great when combined with capistrano deployments.
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall... →
“Anything that relies on correlation is charlatanism.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Obama: “America: stop being stupid. Finish high school. Finish college.” love it. #obama
Apparently banks are the bad guys. But we need to give everyone loans. I’m a little confused. #Obama
Just found out that my friend couldn’t DVR the whole United match. Devistated. Wehhh.
In class about to talk about Apple. Might have to do an impromptu presentation on easyJet. LML. w00t
Desperately trying not to learn the result of the United v Inter match until tomorrow. Double feature (Chels v Juve) tomorrow at Edgecomb!
That Old Master? It’s Down at the Pawnshop -... →
Even the very very rich borrow money to finance their lifestyle. They just do it in a slightly different way than the rest of us.
Cleared out the last of it from Willett. Long live Willett.
My new Dell display at work is defective. Or at least I think it is. Maybe Apple displays are so vastly superior that this looks defective?
Only slightly embarrassed to say that until about five minutes ago I thought the Jonas Brothers was a cartoon show.
Becca's Jambalaya Recipe | Simply Recipes →
House=Cleaned. Case study=Finished. Next up: laundry and some more cleaning at the old Apt. My life=a thrill a minute!
Journal Register Files for Bankruptcy Protection -... →
Very interested to see what kind of reorganization we see operationally. Will the debt holders end up with equity in struggling small market dailies? Will eliminating the debt burden free the company…
Competing with Cool
By 2008 Apple, Inc. had become an icon of success and innovation in the business world. Much of Apple’s gravitas is undoubtedly tied to CEO Steve Jobs. No other CEO is the world garners such adoration and media attention. Indeed, in December of 2008 blogger Jeff Segal calculated that Steve Jobs is alone worth $20 billion in additional market value to Apple. His analysis, based on comparing...
Chicago Sculpture Works →
A friend of mine is interning here.
How Google and Facebook are using R : Data... →
Description of some of the ways that companies use R and how they use it in production.
Congrats to the readMedia team for great board presentations!
Printed Matters » URL shorteners with APIs →
Great list of URL shortener APIs!
Google Earth outs secret CIA drone base in Pakistan http://bit.ly/JlyBg
Albany River Rats players, coaches, and employees injured in bus rollover on Mass Pike http://bit.ly/r7BcQ
Just joined the Center Square Association. http://www.centersquare.org I’m getting all community oriented and stuff.
Center Square Association : HomePage →
Center Square, located in downtown Albany, New York, is an eclectic neighborhood where lively youth culture meets quiet old elegance. Center Square contains some of the most significant and beautiful…
When Will Comcast Need To Worry About Hulu?... →
Time Warner should worry now. I dropped my $100 digital package for a $9 basic package. Everything else I watch (mostly legally) online. I know less and less people who have cable…
The Minimalist - Whole-Grain Breakfasts - Your... →
Reboot breakfast!
$12 Billion more for GM? No thanks. Liquidation is clearly in order. The end of an era.
Just saw The Holy Mountain at the UAG. umm…wow? Totally out of my depth artistically to be able to even comment on a film of that genre.
Glad the Red Bulls re-signed Juan Pablo! Still working from home. Listening to Yeasayer. Got-Junk coming later. Good progress today!
Working from home today. Listening to Bon Iver. http://twitpic.com/1irwe
Top 100 Online Newspapers and Newspaper Websites →
How many of these papers will close this year?
The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash... →
How will the bursting of the bubble affect how and where we live? Richard Florida is a good to choice to help us answer the question.
Failure to save East Europe will lead to worldwide... →
Terrifying article about how close Eastern Europe is to complete economic collapse.
The Albany Urban Badminton Federation has just been founded.
Printed Matters » Your content is your honeypot →
Long winded but interesting discussion of monetizing newspapers websites. The gist: use AdSense to monetize non-local traffic; create interactive features that require a login — sell your own ads…
Helpdesk | Rails Kits →
The rails kits guys now have ticket management and help desk software.
Congratulations to @ussoccer and Michael Bradley for a decisive 2 - nil win over Mexico! One step closer to South Africa 2010!
I kinda sorta get ESPN2 so I’m watching USA v MEX. USA! USA!