February 2009
87 posts
Needed to go to Home Depot. Went to the Apple Store instead. And so it goes.
Feb 28th
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.
Feb 28th
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less... →
Feb 28th
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
Feb 27th
Dailymotion - #87.2 - YEASAYER - 2080, une vidéo... →
Awesome yeasayer video!
Feb 27th
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending -... →
And so it began…
Feb 27th
Awesome Charmed & Dangerous show! http://twitpic.com/1q43f http://twitpic.com/1q42d http://twitpic.com/1q436 http://twitpic.com/1q42v
Feb 27th
Can’t say no to this.
Feb 27th
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…
Feb 26th
Charmed and Dangerous burlesque at the Lark Tavern tonight! w00t!!!
Feb 26th
At Edgewood. Champions League. Bros. IPA. Friends. LML.
Feb 25th
Application Environment Setup Using... →
/etc/profile.d is great when combined with capistrano deployments.
Feb 25th
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall... →
“Anything that relies on correlation is charlatanism.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Feb 25th
Obama: “America: stop being stupid. Finish high school. Finish college.” love it. #obama
Feb 25th
Apparently banks are the bad guys. But we need to give everyone loans. I’m a little confused. #Obama
Feb 25th
Just found out that my friend couldn’t DVR the whole United match. Devistated. Wehhh.
Feb 25th
In class about to talk about Apple. Might have to do an impromptu presentation on easyJet. LML. w00t
Feb 24th
Desperately trying not to learn the result of the United v Inter match until tomorrow. Double feature (Chels v Juve) tomorrow at Edgecomb!
Feb 24th
Feb 24th
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.
Feb 24th
Cleared out the last of it from Willett. Long live Willett.
Feb 23rd
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?
Feb 23rd
Only slightly embarrassed to say that until about five minutes ago I thought the Jonas Brothers was a cartoon show.
Feb 23rd
Feb 22nd
Becca's Jambalaya Recipe | Simply Recipes →
Feb 22nd
House=Cleaned. Case study=Finished. Next up: laundry and some more cleaning at the old Apt. My life=a thrill a minute!
Feb 22nd
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…
Feb 22nd
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...
Feb 22nd
Chicago Sculpture Works →
A friend of mine is interning here.
Feb 21st
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.
Feb 21st
Congrats to the readMedia team for great board presentations!
Feb 20th
Printed Matters » URL shorteners with APIs →
Great list of URL shortener APIs!
Feb 19th
Google Earth outs secret CIA drone base in Pakistan http://bit.ly/JlyBg
Feb 19th
Albany River Rats players, coaches, and employees injured in bus rollover on Mass Pike http://bit.ly/r7BcQ
Feb 19th
Just joined the Center Square Association. http://www.centersquare.org I’m getting all community oriented and stuff.
Feb 19th
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…
Feb 19th
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…
Feb 18th
The Minimalist - Whole-Grain Breakfasts - Your... →
Reboot breakfast!
Feb 18th
$12 Billion more for GM? No thanks. Liquidation is clearly in order. The end of an era.
Feb 18th
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.
Feb 18th
Glad the Red Bulls re-signed Juan Pablo! Still working from home. Listening to Yeasayer. Got-Junk coming later. Good progress today!
Feb 16th
Working from home today. Listening to Bon Iver. http://twitpic.com/1irwe
Feb 16th
Top 100 Online Newspapers and Newspaper Websites →
How many of these papers will close this year?
Feb 16th
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.
Feb 16th
Failure to save East Europe will lead to worldwide... →
Terrifying article about how close Eastern Europe is to complete economic collapse.
Feb 16th
The Albany Urban Badminton Federation has just been founded.
Feb 14th
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…
Feb 12th
Helpdesk | Rails Kits →
The rails kits guys now have ticket management and help desk software.
Feb 12th
Congratulations to @ussoccer and Michael Bradley for a decisive 2 - nil win over Mexico! One step closer to South Africa 2010!
Feb 12th
I kinda sorta get ESPN2 so I’m watching USA v MEX. USA! USA!
Feb 12th