instead of a New Years Resolution, here is my list of things I want to get done in 2011. The personal goals first Take a photo each day of 2011 and post it to my Project 365 set on Flickr. I’ll also post some to the Project 365 group. This is designed to force me [...]
December, 2010:
How Facebook Divided the Web
Adam Rifkin at TechCrunch has a great post on how Facebook has divided the internet. Reliability issues aside, there’s a deeper principle at stake here. Facebook has divided the Web into two: the Web with Facebook (your friends), and the Web without Facebook (people cooler than your friends). Our friends are who we are interested [...]
What does the future bring?
2011 is going to be great Next year we’ll see location-aware applications roll out into every aspect of our lives—it’s believed that the average U.S. citizen will own at least four different devices helping them work out whether they’re here, there, or five minutes away by next summer, reducing the likelihood of feeling lost by [...]
The Shape of Things To Come
60 Minutes had a feature on the budget crisis’ that are happening at the state level. Stay with me on this one. "The most alarming thing about the state issue is the level of complacency," Meredith Whitney, one of the most respected financial analysts on Wall Street and one of the most influential women in [...]
Cloning del.icio.us
As Andre Torrez says, its a lot easier said than done. Register and install an SSL cert to appease the security minded. Also: where are you hosting this? What database? MySQL? Good. InnoDB? If you’re deploying with another engineer, have the typical 30 minute conversation about deploying databases every two hours.
Randy Quaid has lost it
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are on the run and living out of their Prius in Canada People started noticing there was something seriously amiss with the Quaids about three years ago, when Randy left the Broadway-bound musical Lone Star Love and was then banned for life from the Actors’ Equity Association, the stage [...]
The need this Christmas
A couple of notes from around work. The Salvation Army Community Services is at 50% (just over $5000) of their online fundraising goal. So if you are like me and don’t carry cash with you, donate online. If you have any questions on where the money goes or want a tour, email me at jordon.cooper@salvationarmysaskatoon.org. [...]
The need this Christmas
"The need is greater this year than I’ve ever seen it. One little girl didn’t want anything for herself. She wanted a winter coat for her mother." – "Head Elf" Pete Fontana at New York City’s main post office, who leads a staff of 22 people in sorting 2 million letters in Operation Santa, which [...]
