Random Articles

• Babe Ruth: 1330 Strike Outs - 714 Home Runs Steve is wondering how to break through the din of our post-scarcity world. I see the lowering of the barriers to publishing very much an opportunity. An opportunity to move faster, publish faster, and continue to lower the barriers for getting interesting applications out to the world. Evan says this is Obvious. The photo Steve used reminded
• Pruning the Beanstalk - Feedreaders Need to Grow With Us “Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” - Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from 200,
• Un-Plumb We’ve been introduced to a number of crazy characters this election season; Joe Sixpack, Hockey Mom, Senator Government, and Joe the Plumber. Signs of Jumping the Shark #18: “Introduction of new characters to revive interest, particularly young, cute children who are clearly intended to replace regulars who once were but have grown up.” “In the nightmarish near-future, galloping
• Put a Hold on Your Real Estate Agent License “The National Association of Realtors report on existing home sales showed that the median home price in August was $225,000, down 1.7 percent from a year earlier.” “It was the first year-over-year decline in median prices since April 1995, when that measure slipped only 0.1 percent. And it was the biggest year-over-year drop since the record
• Correction. Nothing Happened. Thank you. I’m on the local police department’s email announcement list. Earlier today, a ’suspicious activity’ alert went out possible attempted burglary. Just now, I received the clarifying email: “…we have determined that the attempted burglary was, in fact, an individual who went to the wrong address.” This message says so many good things about the police department,