Category: General

Gesture Deja Vu…..I haven’t read Steve Gilmor for a while now, so I kept having to check the post date on his Gesturesphere post. I swear I read the first 3 paragraphs more than 2 years ago. Perhaps, like Don Sobol, Gillmor re-uses a handful of intros with each gesture.

For me, it’s numbers 10, 17, 5 – in that order.

Safari 3.0b on the Mac seems to get overwhelmed easily. After a few dozen websites, it acts like the network connection is dead. Quitting and reopening seem to help. So does spending more time in Camino

Lunch with NickelNuts today reminded me there’s still a huge need to aggregate communities of affinity (especially my favorite combo: affinity + geography). The tools we have today still aren’t mature enough to make this easy. This isn’t about creating a new silo. It’s about herding cats.

In Dave Slusher’s Dog Daze Clambake, Dave digs into his financial strategy. While I appreciate where Dave’s coming from (don’t buy stuff you don’t need) and our savings rate is also in the double digits, he makes a couple of assumptions I completely disagree with:

1. Retirement, as sold to our grandparents, will exist a decade from now – and later.
   Unlike previous generations, Dave and I make our living from our brains – not our backs. While 40+ years on the factory floor makes a back lamer, the same isn’t true of brains. I’m betting on my brain will be a valuable member of society 40+ years from now in a similar way it is today. Perhaps my perspective will change in a couple decades, but today – I see myself doing something revenue generating when I’m in my 70s not because I have to, but because I want to.This is where Dave and I disagree.Dave and I are talking about the same elephant.
2. Sacrifice today inherently creates opportunity tomorrow.
   No, I don’t have a video game console or subscribe to cable television. Nor do I have a high quality portable podcast recorder or a dog. I do have a bunch of other gear that makes my life easier, work more enjoyable, and offers me opportunity and experience I wouldn’t have without the gear. Here’s my assumption: having lunch with a colleague is more likely to lead to a new business opportunity than not.

Some nice improvements in the Public Beta of the new Safari. A mix of must-haves and nice-to-haves. I’m quite pleased by the following:

1. Resizeable textareas
2. Spotlight/Firefox-esque in-page Find
3. Submit buttons now support CSS

Gizmo Project now supports AIM and MSN ‘buddies’. But not both at the same time. If they did, I’d drop Adium. But they don’t so I still don’t have a reason to use Gizmo over my current Skype/Adium combo.

Reactee.com is doing for t-shirts what Twitter did for instant messaging.

Of course, the best way to figure out how a new medium works is to republish a blog through it.

I had attributed the following quote to Chuck Olsen. Over lunch last week, he denied credit for it. Looks like I mixed up my film makers.

“Every edit is a lie.” – Jean-Luc Godard

Joyent ps pipe grep #16 starts out discussing home coffee roasting. Then they dig into the regular übergeek stuff.

If they keep this up, I’ll just do an .htaccess redirect from the First Crack podcast to Joyeur. 😉

Another great quote from the podcast:

“Ruby is Java for people that hate Java.”