Morrie the Toupee Salesman

  A pic of mine appeared today on a site called dmwmedia.com, credited thankfully (towards the bottom). It would have been nice if they linked to the specific flickr page where people can see a larger size, comment, etc, but what can you do. I guess you can blog about it, post the picture and [...]

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Following up on my previous massively popular piece on bootstrapping, I’d like to outline what I see as the next logical step. In general programmers should feel comfortable with business planning – since it’s mostly the same design process, albeit with different tools, goals, language… The overall approach is familiar – invest a little time [...]

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Interesting…

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He brought waterboarding back in style… And he’ll be damned if anyone gets rid of it. Of course, if you’re a Christian, well, I think the consensus is he’s damned anyway.

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is the best way to describe this article about the US economy. The quote “It now looks as if a full decade may pass before most Americans receive a raise.” sums it up – basically Americans have been getting poorer for a long time, that trend was masked by the whole housing bubble, and now [...]

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I had a minor traffic spike yesterday, unusual since I haven’t posted much lately. I assume it’s because some people out there wanted to see if I had an opinion on the latest digg rumor and the latest Jay Adelson denial of that rumor. On the denial, shouldn’t MS or Google people be denying it? [...]

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Doing some work with rails lately… And I’m wholly convinced that it is all a giant conspiracy to reduce the number of software development jobs out there, while simultaneously increasing the number of jobs for sysadmins. It’s an evil sysadmin plot.

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While working at digg, there was a lot of talk about “discovery” – finding interesting stuff for people. Today we have the news that traffic to the New York Times website from Google has “doubled” since the ungating. Also I note that nytimes.com has passed digg in Alexa ratings, which just reminds me (sadly, regretfully) [...]

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