Well Mark went Halloweening as Survivorman tonight. I am not sure where the idea came from (other than we watch the show around here every night on OLN but then again, he didn’t ask to go as Jason Hawes or Grant Wilson from Ghost Hunters). We went over the Dollarama and got him an appropriate [...]
October, 2009:
The Truth About Startups
Paul Graham writes about startups Lots of founders mentioned how important it was to launch with the simplest possible thing. By this point everyone knows you should release fast and iterate. It’s practically a mantra at YC. But even so a lot of people seem to have been burned by not doing it: Build the [...]
Contextless Links
Chris Smith has a good review of Deep Church Henri Nouwen on forgiving the church A review of OSX vs Win7 based on their bundled games The "Fresh Expressions" movement in the UK, an initiative of Archbishop Rowan Williams , happily reports that there are close to 800 projects now in the UK I badmouth [...]
Christmas Gift Ideas for the Emotionally Distant Father
A friend of mine/arch-nemesis has drawn her father and father-in-law for this year’s Christmas celebration and demanded a Christmas gift guide for them. While I am generally compliant towards requests from friends who have incriminating stories about me, this one is a hard one as I don’t have a relationship with my dad * and [...]
links for 2009-10-27
How the New York Yankees are the Microsoft of Baseball Two-thousand was the last time the Yankees managed to win a championship. And it was awfully close to the last time that that Microsoft managed to produce a version of Windows that anybody cared about. And, hey, both the Yankees and Microsoft have long histories [...]
Oliver (again)
Oliver had his appointment with the specialist today. The EEG was fine which means that they don’t have an explanation for his seizures and that is okay. They are leaving him on his anti-seizure medication for the next year which struck me as a little over cautious but then again, the doctor has several degrees [...]
links for 2009-10-25
Pogue Answers Reader Questions on Windows 7 He also spends a lot of time defending his positive reviews of Windows Vista when it came out. (tags: Windows technology) Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Users “Twitter’s smart enough, or lucky enough, to say, ‘Gee, let’s not try to compete with our users in designing this [...]
Contextless Links
Long before he became president, there were signs in Obama of a tendency to promise things easily and compromise often Engrossing analysis of Fitzgerald’s tax returns, movie money, and financial dry spells Succinct explanation of how Wall Street makes its billions How the Crocs brand crashed and burned Design-centric theory for remaking neighborhoods: Put the [...]
