About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
When the first rumors of the iPad began circulating – I immediately dismissed them on the grounds it wasn’t clear to me how a tablet fit into Apple’s deliberately simple product line. I’m still not convinced it does. It could be argued there’s enough space between the iPod Touch and the Mac Book for another …
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Sometimes you could use a small boost on a web project. Maybe the small boost is help refining a use experience design. Maybe it’s quickly building out the first version of a new web app. Maybe it’s simply having access to a trusted advisor on a regular basis. These projects don’t require a full-time user …
This marks hour 4 of setting up ImageMagick & RMagick on my MacBook Pro – without MacPorts (MacPorts and I had a falling out years ago). In an effort to save all of us that time, here’s how I got ImageMagick and RMagick working on my MacBook Pro running 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Download and unpack …
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Here’s my ongoing list of homebrew beer ideas that seem like interesting explorations. If you know of existing beers or recipes that explore some of the ideas below – leave a comment. Thanks. A non-Stout coffee Beer- Most compelling combination thus far: Monsooned Maibock Basic Brewing ‘brewing w/ coffee’ podcast mentions the monsooned malabar. An …
“I shut down a whole bunch of experimental Twitter apps. I feel a phase ending. I don’t see Twitter as my platform.” – Dave Winer In my work to bring Cullect back from hiatus, I’ve been doing a full code review and asking myself what should stay, what should be fixed, and what should go. …
David Crossland (Cantarell font family, Open Font Library) and I dive into font licensing – specifically open font licensing – and the cultural benefits of open licensing. Links and topics we mention: Open Clip Art Library Creative Commons and the CC0 License GNU Public License with Font Exception SIL International SIL Open Font License MIT …
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Dan Haugen wrote up a very nice overview of Twin Cities’ nascent co-working options. He got some great quotes from Zack Steven, Don Ball, Stephen Filing, and myself. Nice work Dan.
I only have one right now. “4. Alex Tabarrok should write a book reconciling his Randian youth with his current views. The book would begin by convincing social scientists that Ayn Rand’s views are at least plausible. Then he would explain which arguments he’s rejected, which ones he still believes, and why. Working title (there’s …
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8 years ago or so, I was helping an client build out a new business unit. Their first step – add a checkbox to their ecommerce checkout process. Their question to me: “Where do we put the checkbox?” The entirety of this new business and the aspirations of the entire team – rolled up into …
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