Time for 2009 Predictions

Now that the 2008 recap is in the can, it’s time for 2009 predictions. Everybody loves predictions because it’s either a chance to crow about how prescient you are or make excuses about how you were partially right and would have been totally right if it weren’t for those darn kids and their dog. Predictions… Read More

Happy Holidays

It’s Christmas. So, if you celebrate that one, Merry Christmas. If not, Happy Holidays, and either way, have a restful and happy time. I’m not much of holiday card sender, but for some reason, people still send cards to me. I know; it’s rude of me, but every few years I actually do remember in… Read More

IPhone Apps for Units of Work

I found myself reading Floyd’s story about the Call a Cab iPhone app and nodding my head. That was embarrassing, like when you find yourself silently agreeing with a presenter like a bobblehead, except there was no one around to agree with my agreement with Floyd. Like I said, a bit embarrassing. Anyway, Floyd’s experience… Read More

Happy Festivus

What? You’ve never heard of Festivus? It’s the holiday for the rest of us. As a pop culture nut and an old school fan of Seinfeld, I couldn’t let December 23 slip by without wishing you all a Happy Festivus. I suppose while we’re here, I might as well wish you a happy holiday, whichever… Read More

Mix Listed on Ruby on Rails.org

Over the weekend, David Heinemeier Hansson, affectionately know as DHH, creator of Rails, made updates to rubyonrails.org. One change was the addition of Oracle Mix to the list of production apps running Rails. Check out the list; you’ll probably recognize several of the apps there, and about the middle of the page, below the fold,… Read More

Ads Make Me Laugh

While we wait for the semantic web to serve up really targeted and useful ads, I, for one, continue to ignore 99% of the ads presented to me. But sometimes, they slip through, twice today in fact. Although they work pretty much all the time, Google Ads have turned up many failures in the past.… Read More

What We’re Reading

Based on the response to my poll question last week about more content, no one seems very psyched about interspersing our Reader Shared Items into posts. That’s fine, and like I said in the comments, I get bored with blogs that post more links/links posts than original content, even I think the content rules. I… Read More

Who Does Your Support?

So, I had an eventful morning. Automatic updates on my Macbook kindly let me know that there was a security update available for Tiger (yes, I’m still on Tiger). As I’ve done many times in the past, I agreed to take the update, entered my credentials and went about my morning email checking. The update… Read More

Semantic Series of Tubes

The semantic web as a concept has been around for quite some time. It pre-dates, Web 2.0 in fact, even though people sometimes refer to it as Web 3.0 or some other term that denotes its place as the next-next evolution of “teh Intertubes”. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Internet (I know it’s funnier to… Read More

Contact Fail

Today, Rich alerted me to the fact that the Contact form (linked up there to the right) has been forwarding to the distribution list we use internally. This would be fine, except that list isn’t accessible from external addresses, meaning we never got your mail. Sorry about that; we weren’t really ignoring you. We really… Read More