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blogging while high (1) - Wednesday,  03/22/23  06:08 AM

...  On my way home from a brief business trip to Atlanta -...  BTW was even colder in Atlanta than has been in LA ......  In re Global Happiness: GQ: we're thinking about...  To be checked out: Microsoft bring OpenAI's DALL-E...  Related: NVidia's big AI moment is here. Yep. They...  Gratuitous plug for my posts about... 

everything everywhere (1) - Sunday,  03/12/23  06:03 PM

Hi all, checking in from the middle of watching the...  Earlier today had the great privilege of attending...  And a bit later had the great fun of participating in...  The big news over the weekend was the failure of...  Financial Times two weeks ago: Silicon Valley Bank...  [Update: Annnd ... it's a bailout. The prevailing...  The previous big news was the release of footage from... 

Friday, March 10, 2023 10:54 PM (1) - Friday,  03/10/23  10:54 PM

Not feeling that great today - even though good things...  DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist. "DuckAssist is the...  TechCrunch: If you have more than one business model,...  I'm going to skip right over the release of the video...  New Neo: DeSantis and those book bans. "During a...  Daring Fireball: Jason Kottke: Augmented reality ski...  Interesting: what the Oscars can teach us about ranked... 

Saturday, March 4, 2023 10:08 PM (2) - Saturday,  03/04/23  10:08 PM

Whew, exhausted from a day of single-handing Mojito in...  PS yes, the Velocitek recorded 15.2 max - J/70s *can*...  Marc Andreessen: The Waluigi Effect. "Forcing LLMs to...  Sad: a look at Belarus' once-vibrant tech startup...  Wired review the Zwift Hub, a new smart cycling...  Ars Technica: fast-moving Musk makes very slow...  The pic is from the article, generated by Stable... 

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 09:38 PM (1) - Wednesday,  03/01/23  09:38 PM

Marching on...  SpaceX Falcon rocket aces 100th consecutive rocket...  Philip Greenspun notes more ChatGPT political...  But Dave Winer reports the positive side: it gave him...  Hmm: Flipboard is leaning into Mastodon - and away...  Atlas shrugged in Houston. "Nobody who was on welfare...  Brent Simmons would like to add "the ask" to my list... 

blizzard-y (1) - Wednesday,  02/22/23  09:13 PM

Well guess what? We have a "blizzard watch" here ......  Following up on my recent note about "old technology",...  Are you excited about the Academy Awards? Do you even...  BTW, I am a red person in a blue family, so it's not...  Well is that special: ChatGPT alters response on...  Meanwhile: Microsoft Trying To Rein In Bing Chat After...  I keep reading about Vivek Ramaswamy. No idea who he... 

Valentine's (1) - Wednesday,  02/15/23  09:56 PM

Happy Valentine's Day! Hope it was nice for...  We celebrated with a wonderful little dinner at home -...  Meanwhile, it's all...  WSJ: New York vs Florida, by the numbers. "As...  So, will Hogwarts Legacy run on your laptop? The game...  Imagine an America with steep billionaire taxes - and...  The key to this is realizing that value creation is... 

link stats (1) - Sunday,  01/29/23  01:29 PM

Here's a little inside baseball ... my friend Gary...  [Update: Gary clarified, when I post political things...  So I did what anyone would do - wrote a script to...  ...  Thoughts on this...  Some other interesting...  Cheers and... 

Thursday, January 26, 2023 09:01 PM (1) - Thursday,  01/26/23  09:01 PM

This picture is called "straight lines". Whoa. ...  Slashdot: what happens when an AI generates designs...  I wonder about the design constraints ... would these...  MarkTechPost: Top innovative AI powered healthcare...  For example: MIT researchers develop an AI model that...  This makes so much sense: Smart TVs as digital health...  And AI in medical imaging market projected to reach... 

Monday, January 23, 2023 11:30 PM (1) - Monday,  01/23/23  11:30 PM

I thought HoloLens was one of the coolest things...  Also sunsetting social VR pioneer...  Meanwhile, Microsoft are investing $10B [further] in...  Jean-Louis Gasse: the ChatGPT Maelstrom. A good...  Seth Godin: Overconfidence and AI. On the difference...  Bertie Mesko: ChatGPT has been listed as an author on...  Nvidia's AI Tech Designs Proteins Never Seen in... 

TGIF (1) - Friday,  01/13/23  09:17 AM

Good morning! It is Friday. The 13th. You have been...  For those who found this post on Facebook, yay. If...  Thanks to Matt Struble for this awesome sunrise series...  Red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky in...  <rant>I love the way Apple's iCloud sync finally...  Have been seriously loving Zwifting. Three days ago,...  * BTW love the way the Zwift people have reimagined... 

sail on (1) - Sunday,  07/19/20  09:20 PM

Amid all the sheltering, I've been sailing! Yippee. ...  Literally unbelievable: Widespread Twitter Hack...  Experts agree: US should reopen schools. Much to the...  Powerline: America's reporters and editors are liars. ...  Half of Americans have used Telehealth services during...  National Geographic: The Atlas of Moons. Over 200 of...  Although I must say, the site is a tad... 

majestic (1) - Sunday,  06/07/20  11:50 PM

Today I blasted off into another great corner of...  My weekend forays have given me some interesting data...  I've often wondered: Why we refuse to spend much money...  The very definition of contrarian: The Gospel...  Visual Capitalist: Do you know where your electricity...  Via Reid Hoffman, this great framework for business...  Chris Dixon: Why Decentralization Matters. More... 

free (2) - Friday,  01/31/20  10:24 PM

Congrats to our friends across the pond on Brexit. I...  Spent a pleasant day sick, working from home. I...  Well this is sad news: Aston Martin won't release EVs...  Powerline: Great news for fracking! California's last...  Up in the air with Cirrus Vision, a single-engine...  Wired: An oral history of Infinite...  So we finished the Morning Show's 10 episodes, and now... 

space-ing out (1) - Sunday,  04/16/17  04:39 PM

Happy Easter everyone, hope you're having a nice day. ...  While I was out not blogging there was a bunch of...  Not least among the interesting space stuff, National...  Astonishing video from NASA/JPL: Four days at Saturn. ...  From NASA: the Shakespearean Moons of Uranus. I think...  And speaking of Titan, it has liquid lakes! - but...  If any more were needed: Another good reason to sail... 

filter pass (3) - Saturday,  04/16/16  10:27 PM

Woah, 10 days since my last filter pass! What...  In case you were worried: NASA's Kepler space...  Clive Thompson: The new site. In case you were a fan...  It's funny to read about someone who thinks Moveable...  From October, Heather MacDonald testifies before the...  Thirty years ago (!) - space shuttle Challenger...  Scott "Dilbert" Adams ponders a presidential... 

wow (1) - Monday,  04/04/16  10:55 PM

Wow! Has there ever been a better ending to a better...  I had predicted NC would win in a yawner. Missed it...  Talking of missing things by a mile, Real Science...  Meanwhile, astronomers just discovered an alien planet...  I wonder if "My Three Suns" was considered as an...  Space archaeology uncovers potential Viking settlement...  Strongly reminiscent of Nevil Shute's amazing An Old... 

Brrr (1) - Tuesday,  03/29/16  11:29 PM

Spring! Brrr... Good thing I got our Nest working. ...  What we know about the Tesla Model 3 (due to be...  The BMW Isetta (IZA) is being resurrected as an...  Okay: Republicans better pay attention to Bernie. If...  4,000 people have signed a petition to allow guns...  Five hard questions facing Oculus Rift. Yeah, it's...  * This picture is cute but one thing it gets crucially... 

virtual Easter (1) - Sunday,  03/27/16  10:53 PM

Happy Easter! In which we celebrate the resurrection...  So, the Oculus Rift is out! Yes I am getting one,...  While moving I found my Amazon Kindle. Not my new one...  When you first put on a VR headset – whether a...  * I do still want to visit Madagascar in person, and I...  Here's why the next SpaceX launch isn't just about the...  Scott "Dilbert" Adams: The Elbonian Zombie virus. ... 

Saturday, March 26, 2016 10:56 PM (1) - Saturday,  03/26/16  10:56 PM

It's Saturday night, I'm exhausted after a long day of...  Goodbye to Johan Cruyff, the flying Dutchman, who...  Sixth anniversary: Obamacare was going to lower health...  And no, the market wasn't allowed to work before...  In case you're wondering, how will Cygnus spacecraft...  NASA: Fun facts about Mars. Their Tumblr is awesome,...  Want to visit the ISS, or Mars? Oculus have [finally]... 

{filter pass} (1) - Sunday,  03/20/16  11:05 PM

A Sunday night filter pass ... after a day of unboxing...  [Note to self: do not use <angle brackets> in...  Not gonna say anything about the primary elections and...  I did enjoy this note from chess champion Garry...  Coming up next week (Thur 3/31): Tesla's Model 3...  Cars are cool: they are robots built by robots. How...  VC Brad Feld: help me understand the value of Slack... 

(not) too busy (1) - Wednesday,  03/09/16  11:10 PM

Greetings, blog public, how is everyone "out there"? ...  So, even NPR agrees that Obamacare has failed. The...  Ann Althouse thinks it's time Marco Rubio suspended...  This is excellent: Behind the curtain, Ars goes inside...  Blue Origin are often cast as a "rival" to SpaceX, but...  Interesting point: Chris Nuttall, author of Ark Royal,...  This is classic: Dos Equis exiles Most Interesting Man... 

super Tuesday (1) - Tuesday,  03/01/16  09:21 AM

Hi everyone, welcome to March! And to Super Tuesday;...  My biggest fear is the most likely outcome: that...  Did you watch the SpaceX non-launch on Sunday? It was...  Did you watch the Oscars? If you did, apparently you...  Please check out this wonderful rant from Paul Watson...  Did you see this? China have apparently declared "no...  Progress on the microprocessor front continues: the... 

Going Gaga over Bowie (2) - Sunday,  02/21/16  11:04 AM

A Saturday night filter pass ... wow, it's all...  Did you watch the Grammy's? Yeah, me neither. I love...  Good to know: Lady Gaga's robotic keyboard had some...  I don't know whether it was the travel posters, Lady...  I rate a "space flight" by Virgin Galactic...  So ... today we had the South Carolina primaries, and...  And Scott Adams finds reasons for humor ... the Pope... 

Valentine's (1) - Sunday,  02/14/16  10:08 AM

Good morning blog public, and happy Valentine's Day to...  Valentine's Day seems stressful to a lot of people; of...  Did you know? Spotify will make a playlist out of...  How did this all get started? Apparently it began...  The weirdest practice was that when I was a kid, we...  I hope you enjoy the day, and are able to fit your... 

the day after (1) - Wednesday,  02/10/16  08:56 PM

The day after (the New Hampshire primaries): wow, I...  If you want an example of the sort of weird thinking...  And this: the left has two huge advantages, and I have...  Scott Adams tries to explain: the Thinking Filters. ...  Mark Suster: the resetting of the startup industry. ...  It's starting to feel 2008-ish again, featuring a...  From John at Desk: the customer is right (and wrong). ... 

Curiosity (1) - Monday,  02/01/16  09:54 PM

Hey, it's February! Let's celebrate ... with a...  Here we have a wonderful "selfie" taken by the...  Back here on Earth, it looks like Ted Cruz defeated...  Also, Alphabet passes Apple as the world's most...  Meanwhile, the National Debt hits $19T. Yeah, that's...  Oh, and Venezuela is on the brink of a complete... 

known star systems (1) - Saturday,  01/30/16  11:34 PM

...  This incredible animation shows all known star...  Wow....  No word on whether R2D2 has a missing map segment to...  [Apropos: an interesting answer to Fermi's paradox*:... 

filter pass (2) - Wednesday,  01/27/16  08:35 PM

Spent the *entire* day debugging one silly thing,...  I had been slowly warming to Donald Trump, perhaps...  In case you were wondering: What went wrong in Flint. ...  This I love: Iconic Airstream gets magnificent revamp...  Of interest (to me): the rise and fall of the singular...  You might have thought One Entangled Evening was...  Related: the 17 equations that changed the course of... 

Saturday morning post (3) - Saturday,  01/23/16  09:57 AM

A nice quiet Saturday morning, no football (for the...  One of those weird first-world problems: this morning...  Behind Facebook's $2B acquisition of Oculus. When...  Of course part of my interest is that VR is going to...  Related: for VR to be truly immersive, it needs...  What I think is more important: Leap Motion is...  And check this out! - the high performance... 

Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:33 PM (1) - Thursday,  01/21/16  10:33 PM

Spent the day ping ponging between VB6 (!) and C++...  The perfect rant on The Sad State of Web Development. ...  Related: Jeffrey Zeldman: Web Performance...  Brave is a new web browser from Brenden Eich (the...  Yay! UberX can now pick you up at LAX. Well it's...  This was interesting: Silicon Valley kingpins commit...  Scott ("Dilbert") Adams, flushed with success from his... 

applause (1) - Tuesday,  01/19/16  10:50 PM

Today was amazing; a new feature I've been coding was...  And in other...  Stephen Wolfram: "I'm excited today to be able to...  Just about everything Stephen writes about is...  Blech: Why the Coast Guard needs $1B. For new ice...  Meanwhile: Giant icebergs help the Southern Ocean soak...  What could go wrong? Sensors slip into the brain,... 

twin jet nebula (1) - Monday,  01/18/16  10:33 PM

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gray day (1) - Saturday,  01/16/16  10:49 AM

Had a nice day of coding and watching football. I'm...  * Southern California cold, not to be confused with...  Thanks you guys for the nice notes re welcoming me...  Can I just say how much I hate the new "dynamic" web...  While I was out, I missed the 20th anniversary of...  Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky: "Netscape is an odd...  Another thing I missed blogging, the formal... 

main() (1) - Thursday,  01/14/16  10:24 PM

Filter Pass! After a looong day of coding. If some...  The rumors that I am considering switching to Eclipse...  Heliocentrism vs Geocentrism. Any...  NASA: Solar System: 2016 Preview. Juno arrives at...  For you to use and for me to remember: ezgif.com. A...  TechCrunch explains: Why Bitcoin matters. A good...  Reminds me of Blade Runner, a game-changing science... 

reblogging (1) - Sunday,  01/10/16  09:37 AM

I woke up this morning and said to myself, "self, this...  It has been three months. Who can say why I stopped? ...  Did you watch Pittsburgh survive Cincinnati last...  By the way, ESPN's website is now so horrible that I...  Sorry about Sport Illustrated's articles' video...  PS do you remember why ESPN's URL is...  Oh I have so much to blog about. Top of mind is the... 

re: space (2) - Saturday,  08/15/15  09:06 PM

You know how when you buy a new car, you suddenly see...  NASA have a new blog, a Tumblr, and of course you...  So ... greens grown in space are now on the Space...  This applies to all sorts of things besides food, too,...  Among the amazing pictures taken by the Hubble Space...  From Engadget: Watch live as two ISS cosmonauts...  When you see these pictures, it looks like something... 

lost in space (1) - Thursday,  08/06/15  07:05 AM

Lately I've been lost in space*, reading as much as I...  * some of you may say, so what's new? Yeah...  Not happy about this: NASA ‘forced’ to extend...  To be clear, our dependence on Russia is troubling,...  I *think* this is good news: Senate passes commercial...  Cool animated GIF of the day: The moon transits across...  Now you can drive around Mars with NASA's Curiosity... 

dog days (2) - Monday,  08/03/15  11:09 PM

This is being blogged with a dog on my lap. You have...  Mission creep? NASA is crash-testing Cessnas so we...  And meanwhile ... Star Trek's Uhura will join a NASA...  Mission creep is one of the two key problems with...  In private spaceflight news, Largest plane in the...  How interesting: Twitter collapses 5%, tumbling toward...  More government regulation gone wild: California has a... 

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10:58 PM (1) - Wednesday,  07/29/15  10:58 PM

Filter...  Hmmm... NASA completes rocket design review for...  How to explain Donald Trump? "To explain the...  Meanwhile: Carly Fiorina: Here's what I will do as...  Google retires G+ as a requirement, starting with...  Today is Windows 10 Day. So be it. The reviews are...  Mary Jo Foley: Windows 10, Fine for laptops but not... 

Sunday, July 26, 2015 11:05 PM (1) - Sunday,  07/26/15  11:05 PM

You cannot make this stuff up: Arctic expedition to...  Just to clarify, I am not a global warming denier, I'm...  Meanwhile, in real science news, NASA's Kepler...  More liberal BS: Dunkin Donuts CEO makes $10M/year but...  Oh, and so how's Seattle's $15/hour minimum wage law...  Whoa ... Amazon's market cap now bigger than...  The next Social Network? Winklevoss twins get closer... 

New Horizons (1) - Monday,  07/13/15  11:32 PM

NASA celebrates 50 years of planetary awesomeness. On...  Meanwhile ... here's your closest look yet at Pluto's...  MG Siegler links Dennis Overbye: The inventory of...  It’s hard to write these words and know what they...  You could say that we have reached the sea, the very...  I can say, we shall cross it. Probably sooner than...  PS there are 182 known moons in the solar system, some... 

Sunday night scan (2) - Sunday,  07/12/15  10:56 PM

It's Sunday night, I have a big week ahead. So...  From Fortune's CEO Daily: "Which number is larger:...  The Shanghai and Shenzen exchanges continued their...  Yikes. ...  I will say, at least China are reaping what they've...  Meet the first commercial space crew in NASA's...  It cannot be too soon; do you realize it has now been... 

Friday, July 3, 2015 05:12 PM (1) - Friday,  07/03/15  05:12 PM

A relatively quiet day-before-the-Fourth ... it's...  This pic shows my mighty steed, "It's the Water", with...  Google Earth turns ten! Wow. Interesting to remember...  Cannot wait for Google Mars. I know it's coming...  Novartis on digitizing medicine in an aging world. A...  This is adorable ... A tiny kitten befriends a...  The morning routes of the most successful people. I... 

Saturday, May 30, 2015 10:38 PM (2) - Saturday,  05/30/15  10:38 PM

...  Here comes a rather grumpy filter pass, sorry. Went...  Warren Buffet: Better than Raising the Minimum Wage. ...  Apropos: this article by Philip Greenspun, commenting...  Philip links this great interview of Milton Friedman:...  Hehe ... Carly Fiorina held a press conference outside...  This is pretty interesting: high-rent blight in the... 

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:57 PM (1) - Wednesday,  05/13/15  10:57 PM

Whew, what a day; spent much of it coding in Excel,...  Last night I attended a classical music concert with...  How to deny a question's premise with one word. ...  The Watts Bar nuclear power plant, first launched in...  Meanwhile: Obama Sells Out the Environmentalists. "No...  So this is interesting: Seymour Hersh claims the White...  The machine vision algorithm beating art historians at... 

Sunday, April 19, 2015 10:14 PM (1) - Sunday,  04/19/15  10:14 PM

The Ole filter makes a pass ... curiously, it's not...  I have been self-analyzing myself, watching me not...  NASA captures first color image of Pluto. "The New...  A new trailer for the new Star Wars movie is up, and...  Oh, and remember the little round droid BB-8...  And here we have the crab cam. Of... 

really back (2) - Monday,  04/06/15  10:05 AM

This morning it feels like I'm really back, after two...  This is a picture of Charles Babbage's Difference...  This is the week to prepare for the Apple Watch, which...  Richard Feynman: Fire is stored sunshine. I am just...  And so: the Large Hadron Collider is back and stronger...  Interesting: BMW can't build it's $135K plug-in hybrid...  * I must tell you, there are more high-end cars on the... 

Sunday, March 15, 2015 10:01 PM (1) - Sunday,  03/15/15  10:01 PM

Whew, a long and interesting weekend ... with a long...  The pic at right is a Renovo beauty. Just couldn't...  I have to confess, with March Madness impending I am...  Easy to do: Imagining Scott Walker vs Hillary Clinton....  Yikes: California has just one year of water left. ...  Well this is exciting: Tesla promises to end 'range...  Congratulations to Richie Porte for winning the... 

Saturday, February 28, 2015 08:05 PM (1) - Saturday,  02/28/15  08:05 PM

So. (Is the new...  Meanwhile Swatch have announced the ... Touch Zero...  And there is a WebOS-based LG Watch Urbane, which...  And LBNL, Huawai have announced a nice Android Wear...  Lots of choices, but I think everyone is going to wait... 

more cowbell (1) - Monday,  02/16/15  11:02 PM

So, did you watch SNL's 40th anniversary show? It was...  Apparently the after party was quite something, too...  Global Warming update: Boston's snowiest month...  The past week we've been inundated with rumors of an...  Jean-Louis Gassee does not think...  The New Yorker profiles Jonny Ive. A most interesting...  Frank Drake (of the Drake equation) points out that... 

Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:45 PM (2) - Saturday,  01/31/15  10:45 PM

On the eve of Super Sunday, the Ole filter makes a...  (That's a Ying Yang box ... my latest effort at coding...  Liked Imitation Game. A lot. And if you did too, you...  * the actual name given to Turning's anti-Enigma...  Well, that sucks: AOL are shutting down TUAW. AOL...  Paul Rahe: Party of the living dead. "Thanks, in...  Marissa Mayer thinks MaVeNs are the key to Yahoo. ... 

Monday, January 26, 2015 07:59 PM (1) - Monday,  01/26/15  07:59 PM

A quiet day of work today. Work work work. A little...  I hardly ever watch "news" video online, do you? But...  What all this means to me is that climate science is...  This is pretty cool (NPI): Robot finds fish beneath...  Wow I need one: The Taco toaster. Crunchy tacos...  But of course: Worry for Solar Projects after End of...  I'm installing the latest Windows 10 Technical... 

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:28 PM (1) - Tuesday,  01/13/15  10:28 PM

Hmmm... to fall in love with anyone, do this. Where...  The shift online continues: Macy's announces massive...  I find it fascinating to ponder where this trend is...  Great news: DTS is making movie and TV dialog easier...  Parenthetically, I have a fifteen-year-old Yamaha...  From CNN (of all media): Quran has enough...  As is denunciation by Muslim leaders, like Ahmed... 

NASA exoplanet travel posters (1) - Thursday,  01/08/15  09:44 PM

These are...  ...  ...  ... 

Je Suis Charlie (1) - Wednesday,  01/07/15  10:11 PM

Yeah, that sucked; Twelve dead, magazine silenced in...  Sigh. In joyless nanny state called America,...  From Ev Williams, founder of Blogger, Twitter, and...  Here we have the Torino Lamborgini, a limited edition...  Of course one challenge faced by luxury phones is that...  MakerBot wants you to start printing in metal and wood...  Everything you need to know about the SpaceX resuable... 

higher ground (2) - Monday,  01/05/15  10:21 PM

Marco Arment thinks Apple has lost the functional high...  It used to be that Apple strove for greatness and...  Who doesn't love this stuff? (Look at the way the...  Hmmm slash yawn: California starts building its...  Intel are betting $25M on smart eyewear maker Vuzix. ...  Just looking at the Vuzix solution, nah, it's not... 

3D-printed moonbase (2) - Friday,  11/07/14  10:15 PM

...  ...  This is way cool: an ESA animation showing a... 

shooting squirrels (1) - Sunday,  11/02/14  09:40 PM

Nine-Year-Old Spanish Boy Wins Young Wildlife...  Best possible means of shooting squirrels...  How the World sees Google Glass. "In Berlin...  I see Glass as the Newton of wearables; not a success...  HP's 3D-scanning 'Sprout' PC is unlike anything the...  Amazon's Fire Phone efforts will continue despite...  Jony Ivy says Apple Watch was harder to design than... 

boo, two (1) - Friday,  10/31/14  11:55 PM

Another kind of boo :(, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo...  Check out this post from Doug Messier, yesterday,...  The rubber hybrid engine did get a workout in three...  It was not until May 2014 – after spending nearly a...  Flight tests with the plastic engine are set to begin...  And it must be pointed out, the 100km barrier might be...  Let's hope this is a learning experience and progress... 

coding (1) - Saturday,  10/11/14  10:23 PM

Greetings blog public; checking in after another busy...  Paul Graham: Before the Startup. On the importance of...  Google turned a camel into a street view car to map...  Following in eBay/PayPal's footsteps, HP plan to break...  Interesting that many "tech" companies really don't...  Speaking of PayPal: Square Cash now lets you send...  According to TechCrunch, There's something going on in... 

faster horses (1) - Sunday,  10/05/14  09:26 PM

Yesterday was a day to play - yay - and today was a...  The more I think about Apple Watch, the more I think...  The secret history of the Michelin Man. See, just...  ESR is creating a new Unix calendaring API. Yay. As...  Nice design: how IOS 8 time lapse feature works. This...  Wow. In 2013 Samsung paid Microsoft $1B in royalties...  Cassini watches mysterious feature evolve in Titan... 

to 6 or not to 6 (1) - Saturday,  09/20/14  11:06 AM

To 6 or not to 6, that is the question. Whether 'tis...  You are alive, so you have seen: millions of people...  I have seen an iPhone 6 in person - one of our interns...  Well, the camera is better, everyone says so. And I...  The 6 supports Apple Pay. That might do it for me,...  The 6 has this little M8 motion processor, which means...  The 6 supports WiFi calling. Well, that's nice. ... 

that syncing feeling (1) - Monday,  09/15/14  10:56 PM

Hi everyone! Thought I'd poke my head out of my...  Wine is sunlight held together by water......  I for one like U2, and am happy that Apple have...  File under no good deed goes...  One more comment: it's actually a good album. Says...  Interesting: PayPal open fire on Apple Pay. "Apple...  Related: Apple proves that moats are for dummies. A... 

Wednesday, August 06, 2014 01:16 AM (2) - Wednesday,  08/06/14  01:16 AM

A little midnight blogging, after a wonderful night at...  Picture of the day: SpaceX Falcon 9 blasts off. ...  Don't you love the way iCloud stops syncing at random,...  With all the talk about mobile payments, guess who is...  They do have a plug-in for my Pebble Watch...  Meanwhile: Stripe CTO explains how Bitcoin could...  Apropos: Wikipedia now accepts donations in... 

resurfacing (1) - Thursday,  07/31/14  11:45 PM

Whew, what a week! What a two weeks... work work...  PS if you're interested please check us out at...  I am spending 50% of my time coding these days, and...  And you cannot code without music, and good code makes...  Just finished The Martian, by Andy Weir. It was...  Fun fact: this book was first self-published as an...  The 'Just in Time' theory of user behavior. Aka, "the... 

Le Tour 2014, rest day 2: movie + thoughts (1) - Monday,  07/21/14  10:56 PM

The Tour de France 2014 rests again today. Left are...  It seems like Vincenzo Nibali is a lock to win. But...  It already seems a long time ago but remember stage 5,...  Wow. And...  [ Le Tour 2014: all posts | index... 

footprint (1) - Sunday,  07/20/14  05:10 PM

45 years ago today, the footprint heard around the...  Jason Kottke has assembled a page where you can watch...  Buzz Aldrin wants to know, where were you back...  Of course the lunar landings were the epitome of a...  Heh: selfies are awesome. "I take a lot of selfies....  Those were the days: space disintegrator gun and...  Scott "Dilbert" Adams: the user interface to reality. ... 

Le Tour, 2014 (1) - Saturday,  07/05/14  10:38 PM

Tour de France...  This post is a compendium of all my Tour de France...  The organizers of Le Tour have once again setup an...  ...  [ Le Tour 2014: all posts | index...  Le Tour 2014 is officially under way, after a most...  Jens Voight was part of the initial break and finally... 

half two (1) - Wednesday,  07/02/14  10:58 PM

Half two! Time to start playing...  I've enjoyed the World Cup so far (go Oranje!) but...  I am *not* tired of pictures from Yosemite Valley yet....  A weird map showing the world's countries drawn...  So, is there such a thing as "coder's high"? Of...  Seth Godin: Don't blow it (the secret of b2b). "If...  Did you know, I love church organs? I do. Not only... 

Summer! (1) - Sunday,  06/22/14  10:16 PM

Summer! Yippee. ...  Slacker vs iTunes Radio. Slacker wins in an...  Did you miss Apple's WWDC keynote? Here you go. ...  Amazon had a busy week, first they announced a...  Yes, of course I ordered one :) Stay tuned for a full...  (Update: Jamie Zawinski doesn't think much of their...  Here's the Jeff Bezos keynote video. Not Steve Jobs... 

it's all happening (2) - Saturday,  06/14/14  10:47 PM

Wow, another two week gap in posting. It's all...  It's almost old news now but really enjoyed watching...  From CNN: Seven incredible bike routes. Added to the...  Did you see this? GE integrates iBeacons into Walmart...  I posted about this on my other blog (eyesFindings), a...  I read that 3% of all startups succeed, but 75% of all...  Excellent: Airbus electric plane takes to skies. It's... 

filter pass (1) - Sunday,  05/11/14  08:43 PM

Hi all hope you had a great Mother's Day! At the end...  Have you noticed that more and more websites are...  Another whiny observation: Now that computers are so...  So you can use it (and I can find it later): Here's...  Danny Crichton: A personal reflection on Google+. ...  In which Robert Scoble restarts blogging: Knock,...  Awesome: America's next fleet of spaceships will have... 

Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:51 PM (1) - Thursday,  04/10/14  10:51 PM

Multithread city over here, I have been courting...  Biggest news the last couple of days has been...  Think Visual Search is flying under the radar? No...  Seth Godin: Not even one note. "We opt for more...  I've been remiss in my cycling commentary, which for...  So, Microsoft have announced Office for the iPad, or...  Meanwhile, Microsoft's OS Chief Terry Myerson does not... 

Q two (1) - Sunday,  04/06/14  07:45 PM

Watched Grand Budapest Hotel tonight; wow, how cool! ...  I'm at an interesting transition point with...  So ... didn't pick the final two did I? Who knew we'd...  The Huskies have a chance to win both the Men's and...  Did you see this? The enchanting Tesla ad that wasn't...  Did you know? A Tesla Model S owner has found a...  Interesting that Tesla knew about it, and warned the... 

Saturday, March 22, 2014 09:49 PM (1) - Saturday,  03/22/14  09:49 PM

Such a busy week ... traveling, meeting, and ......  The stress of being a programmer is driving many of...  Glassholes: at least you know who they are. So...  Wearing Apple. "The first step is to start looking at...  Disrupting healthcare with Google Glass. ...  The Moto 360 watch: 'we wanted to hit the whoa mark'. ...  Dave Winer: New Scripting News. My pattern with Dave... 

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:47 PM (1) - Wednesday,  03/12/14  11:47 PM

Not good: laptop blue screens while restoring iPhone. ...  And I was having such a nice day, too...  Meanwhile, back on the...  Good point: It is 100% easier not to do things. "In...  Still buzzing from that amazing finish to the 2014...  Click through for a whole series of beautiful photos...  This is perfect: Why I retired from the NFL at 26. ... 

Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:34 PM (1) - Sunday,  03/09/14  10:34 PM

The Ole Filter makes a pass, after a quiet weekend of...  (Lamu Island looks like a nice place for coding, too...  I've been experimenting with updating the firmware on...  The print at left is tiny - about 20mm x 10mm - and...  Open source pioneer Eric Raymond contemplates the myth...  So have you / are you planning to watch Cosmos? I'm...  BTW it sucks that President Obama had to get into this... 

Friday, March 07, 2014 11:02 PM (1) - Friday,  03/07/14  11:02 PM

Re-watched Silver Linings Playbook tonight. Great...  Pictured: Scorpion Weed. Grows in the desert once...  Reading "the news", I'm struck by how much news has...  It's hard work filtering the news, I tell you, it's...  Pass the popcorn: Dorian (Satori) Nakamoto chased by...  BTW must say, Newsweek's return to prominence based on...  Never mind personal drones: For sale on eBay: one... 

Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:40 PM (2) - Saturday,  03/01/14  11:40 PM

It's Oscar pre-night, did you know? Yep, tomorrow...  Warmed up for the Oscars by renting Quartet on the...  Women want their partners to be as smart as they are,...  Who holds the seven keys to the Internet? And one...  The next frontier in software tech? Cars. Which is...  We know now that Tesla's forthcoming Model E will have...  Yes, I am missing Sochi already. Not so much the... 

Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:24 PM (1) - Thursday,  02/27/14  11:24 PM

Final day of riding around the Santa Monica mountains...  Doc Seals nails it: sell the news, give away the olds....  Tesla unveils $5B gigafactory (to make batteries). ...  Have you been following the Mt.Gox Bitcoin disaster? ...  Surgeon Atul Gawande considers coaching for everyday...  Longtime Twitter fan Dave Winer has started posting on...  Reminds me of this old article by Bill Gurley: You... 

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:54 PM (1) - Tuesday,  02/25/14  10:54 PM

Day two of the CorpsCamp, and another fine day of...  Wither Bitcoin? So Mt.Gox, the largest and best known...  Unsurprising: we now spend more time using smartphones...  Paul Graham: lessons learned from 630+ Y-Combinator...  So: Facebook email is gone. So be it. I commend them...  Getting ready for the Academy Awards: Best-picture...  Oh, and here's every single best actor ... and every... 

Saturday, February 22, 2014 10:16 PM (3) - Saturday,  02/22/14  10:16 PM

Quite a day, in which my little eyesFinder team was...  Love this: Lego Steve Jobs. ...  Here we have the world's most extraordinary hotel,...  What if cash was a new currency like Bitcoin? "Cash is...  But: Amazon's virtual currency now works on Android...  Have you been following the situation in the Ukraine? ...  The map at left shows the prevalent language,... 

wow, 2014 (1) - Sunday,  01/05/14  11:48 PM

Wow, 2014! The Holidays are officially over, and real...  So, what's the first App you open in the morning? ...  Don't say, you don't look at your phone first thing in...  The Microsoft Squeeze is happening: "Never any...  Watched Her last night. Kind of disappointing. A...  So, CES starts tomorrow, and Wearable technology set...  User experience: I returned my Glass after 30 days. ... 

immediate gratification (1) - Monday,  12/09/13  01:31 PM

I'm just thinking about the importance of immediate...  This is most definitely a key value for visual search:...  Any business contemplating an emerging market has to...  I think immediate gratification is part of why 3D...  Who knows ... perhaps immediate gratification even... 

snowy Sunday (1) - Sunday,  12/08/13  11:06 PM

A snowy Sunday ... well, not snowy for me, although it...  You will all have seen my eyesFinder presentation. ...  BTW I'm using Wordpress for this blog, my first...  Mickey Kaus examines President Obama's "Inequality...  It's the end of the year, which means it's time for...  Why Steve Ballmer got fired, in two photos. This one...  I see where Microsoft is still playing next CEO bingo.... 

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 09:19 PM (1) - Wednesday,  11/27/13  09:19 PM

A quiet little day today; you know you didn't get much...  You know we're doing okay when worrying about whether...  By the way I must confess, I just rewatched the whole...  Want to play with your family a bit tomorrow? Maybe...  Leonado da Vinci invented numerous devices that he...  * while I was non-blogging last summer I visited...  Okay, back to printing wild turkeys ...... 

Saturday, November 23, 2013 04:47 PM (2) - Saturday,  11/23/13  04:47 PM

Back from Sacramento, the Ole filter makes a...  Just in time for the next installment of The Hobbit,...  Economist: Obama Sinking. Obama never did accomplish...  Dave Winer: the government develops software...  How interesting: Sudden progress on prime number...  For $99, you can build your own computer in twenty...  Boo. Winamp is officially dead. Of course, it has... 

'tis the season (1) - Friday,  11/15/13  10:02 PM

Ahhh! 'tis the season ... already! Today I was in...  Forget Jeopardy!, IBM's Watson could give medical...  Did you see this? USS Enterprise takes its final...  Here's a question: how many aircraft carriers are...  Awesome: US approves new nuclear reactor design. As...  Just Look At My Beautiful, Working Pocket Cannon. I...  Trench Bridge. How do you build a bridge below... 

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:13 PM (1) - Wednesday,  10/05/11  10:13 PM

In the home stretch heading into the 508 this...  Still thrown by the news of Steve Jobs passing. Stay...  Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation. "The vast and...  So yesterday Apple announced the iPhone 4S - Tim...  Here's a review of the announcement ... in 90 seconds....  This looks cool: Researchers transform iPhone into...  Science: Women who make more decisions have less sex. ... 

EOQ! (1) - Friday,  09/30/11  10:29 PM

Wow, end of September, end of Q3, end of ... summer. ...  Don Draper pitches the Facebook Timeline. This is...  John Gruber's take on Amazon's New Kindles is much the...  Apparently Amazon are considering bringing Silk to...  Meanwhile: Finally, the tablet to make HP and RIM feel...  This is just fantastic: Life of George melds Lego...  Mike Arrington takes a look back one year to AOL's... 

back to work (1) - Saturday,  09/17/11  06:42 PM

So ... I'm back, as in back to work, as in last...  You may ask - and many of you have already - how was...  Love using the Kindle app on my iPhone, because it...  Apropos: Amazon's future is so much bigger than a...  GoDaddy was bought! By KKR et al. Not totally...  Raise your hand if you're still using Google+. I'm...  Google have announced a new structured programming... 

last summer weekend (1) - Saturday,  09/03/11  07:09 PM

Hey y'all; celebrating my last summer weekend, yeah I...  Remarkable: Giant airship hanger transformed into...  Robert X Cringley: the mortgage reality distortion...  Awesome! The Mars rover Opportunity begins study of...  A couple from MG Siegler: the iPad as a PC...  Wow, this is a big deal: HTML5 video player. Free and...  Great demo movie, too - I love watching birds fish... 

goodbye, webOS (1) - Thursday,  08/18/11  10:12 PM

Kinda hard to avoid today's big tech news, HP are...  MG Siegler was also surprised, and thinks Facebook...  I loved my Pre phone, and thought webOS was great. I...  There are a kazillion articles and blog posts and...  John Gruber's takeaway was The Tablet Effect; we are...  So be it! Onward... at least as a developer there is... 

QE2 (1) - Wednesday,  06/29/11  11:56 AM

Was going through some old stuff and came across this...  Onward, a quick quarter-end filter...  Paul Hsieh: Why the 'unexpected' keeps happening. ...  Ha! A hot or not style way of picking the world's...  The iPhone effect: how the iPhone changed everything. ...  I love this headline: HP webOS tablet plays solid hand...  In retrospect that sums up my whole Palm Pre vs iPhone... 

week one (1) - Friday,  06/24/11  05:25 PM

And so I reach the end of week one (of my vacation). ...  I love this, from Ignatius Loyola: "if someone doesn't...  I'm rereading Neal Stephenson's masterpiece...  This media life... Alice Gregory captures something...  So what do you think, are RIM done? I think so; while...  Apropos: the Verizon iPhone halted Android's surge,...  The Tesla Roadster is being sunsetted! Wow. The... 

catching my breath (1) - Tuesday,  06/07/11  08:23 PM

Whew, what a weekend ... week .. period of time. ...  By the way now I can tell you, I am planning to take...  Did you follow the iCloud Jobsnote yesterday? I was...  I have updated my Jobsnotes of note scoreboard with...  Here's Engadget's liveblog, if you want a summary of...  BTW I did think the IOS 5 enhancements quite...  Apple has been on a roll lately, but there was a time... 

views from the air (1) - Thursday,  05/19/11  06:23 PM

Whew, what a day... it began at 2:30AM EST with a fire...  I took about a kazillion pictures on this trip; using...  Wow, colored e-paper is becoming a reality. What will...  LinkedIn went public today, and appears to have popped...  This is so sad: Cyclist Tyler Hamilton turns over his...  Lance Tweeted "congratulations to Eki Ekimov on his...  First Apple, and now IBM is worth more than Microsoft.... 

views from Baltimore (1) - Wednesday,  05/18/11  11:40 PM

My marathon week continues; this morning I woke up in...  This different day different city traveling is...  On tough stage 4 aka Sierra Road, Chris Horner flew...  You might notice my cycling links go to Cycling News...  Lots of speculation about LinkedIn's IPO tomorrow. I...  Looks like HP really are bringing webOS to notebooks. ... 

cat crossed my path (1) - Friday,  05/13/11  09:20 PM

Friday the 13th! Yay. Was it back luck? Nah; I am...  Uh oh: Mississippi River heading into Atchafalaya. A...  Go Rabo! Peter Weening is presently leading the Giro....  Robert X Cringely: Why Microsoft bought Skype. This...  So Google have announced their Chromebooks. ...  A few thoughts on Chromebooks from Alex...  How iPad will kill Google's Chromebook from Mike... 

in the land of 1s and 0s (1) - Sunday,  03/27/11  10:46 PM

Whew, a long weekend in which I worked most of it in...  I have rediscovered two things; first, break big...  So ... I setup a new blog, SecondBlog, for Aperio's...  If you're an admin for Facebook pages, check out RSS...  The piling on continues: iPhone App Store review of...  So, are we having a tech bubble? The NYTimes says...  This is funny: you can tell it's a bubble because... 

Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:19 PM (1) - Wednesday,  03/09/11  11:19 PM

A quiet, wonderful, lonely, weird evening; had a good...  This is massively cool: you are listening to Los...  (wish I were there right now; I'd be safe and warm, if...  You know this already: Iditarod sled dog race gains...  Tracking the astounding pace of digital storage. Even...  Huh: Adobe unveils Flash-to-HTML5 converter. Seems...  Totally apropos: faking native iOS apps with... 

back to normal (1) - Saturday,  03/05/11  07:52 AM

Huh; today I fell somewhat back to normal, or at least...  Wow, cool, the space shuttle launch, viewed from an...  Tim Bray on making money in mobile. The unit volumes...  Great article: why payments are hard, even for Apple...  I have to love this: another badass bull charges out...  And so Himpmunk have added hotels! Yay. The key...  Awesome! Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7. ... 

back to Earth (1) - Thursday,  02/24/11  09:58 PM

I am back to Earth, literally and figuratively, whew. ...  A highlight was distributing the Team Aperio 2010 mugs...  Anyway today was my first "normal" day in quite a...  I am surprised that my Jobsnotes of note post hasn't...  Apple smacks Readability in the face with subscription...  Josh Newman considers dining hall trays: What a tool. ...  TechCrunch's MG Siegler: I Will Check My Phone At... 

blogging while high, again (1) - Saturday,  02/19/11  11:07 PM

On the road again... starting with a whirlwind one-day...  Please do not mention the word "compliance" to me. ...  And so I am off! And meanwhile,...  Powerline: what the house did last night. That graph...  Pretty amazing: A detailed follow up to Wired's "101...  Apropos: Apple in the Sky with Diamonds: A cloud-based...  The AOL way claims its first victim: Engadget editor... 

webOS-ness (2) - Wednesday,  02/09/11  10:46 PM

Today featured HP's big "Think Beyond" event, at which...  ...  Of course it was the TouchPad that got the most...  [Update: you can see video of the entire event here. ...  Overall it looks like HP have pushed webOS forward in... 

bowled over (1) - Monday,  02/07/11  11:19 PM

Just another manic Monday, coming off a great dusk...  Some chest-beating; from the Dark Report: More...  Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers. In a...  In related news Christina Aguilera did a great job on...  I'm going to say Shirley's tamales and chili stole the...  The best and worst Super Bowl ads. In our group of...  I am now using TwitterFeed to tweet blog posts. ... 

just another weekend (1) - Sunday,  01/16/11  10:43 PM

Just another weekend, ho hum... spent yesterday on my...  In re: football; the Steelers victory over the Ravens...  Tesla's Chief Engineer talks about the Model S. Wow,...  Whew, one less thing to worry about: Genetic Tests not...  Wow, this is painful: why you should never, ever use...  Why the next version of Firefox will not have an RSS...  "App" is word of the year for 2010. So be it. I'm... 

It's a onederful day (1) - Tuesday,  01/11/11  11:11 AM

Hey, it is 11:11 on 1/11/11! (written this morning...  This brings to mind one of my favorite movies, That...  Oh yes, of course we can make a onederful filter...  Onderful quote: "The problem with Internet quotations...  Speaking of ones, I too notice more people say "twenty...  Last night's national championship game lived up to...  Here we have a onederful rant about global warming. ... 

a time of change (1) - Friday,  01/07/11  07:26 AM

New Year, new week, back to normal, and ... a time of...  So be it, some things don't change... like me, making...  2011: The Enterprise Resets. In which companies are...  From Scott "Dilbert" Adams: Confidence. "The reality...  This would have been good to read a month ago: The...  Can't wait: Eye-Wi's Direct Mode unites phone and...  Meanwhile: Mobile Wallets are already coming true. ... 

at the zoo (1) - Sunday,  12/19/10  10:06 PM

...  ...  ...  ...  ...  Pre-Christmas weekend! and I spent part of it...  In the meat / poison category: California Mountains... 

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:35 PM (1) - Tuesday,  12/14/10  10:35 PM

Listening to UB40 while coding... what could be...  This I love; Telebaby. Webcams in the newborn...  Sounds right: Why the next iPad won't have a rear...  Wow, how cool is this? Toshiba's new glasses-free 3D...  Adam Curry: The App Economy is Bogus. "I have...  The dirty truth about web passwords. Exactly right. ...  Slashdot: Why hackers can't take down amazon.com. ... 

SpaceX return from orbit (1) - Wednesday,  12/08/10  10:11 PM

How cool is this: SpaceX have launched a spaceship...  You might think SpaceX must be doing things similar to... 

catching up (2) - Saturday,  09/04/10  11:17 AM

Getting caught up here after a long week away... woke...  { ...  Last weekend I declared the end of summer, but some...  Can you believe? Google Chrome is two years old. It...  Apple had a great week, but Ping seems to be a dud so...  How to succeed like Apple: ignore your customers. ... 

midweek (8) - Wednesday,  09/01/10  10:35 PM

In the middle of the world's longest week, sitting in...  Last night we took our sales team to Dodger Stadium -...  And so Apple...  A classic Jobsnote, enjoyed watching/listening to the...  ArsTechnica posted their usual nice overview of the...  [Update: Ping is a big disappointment. It might get...  In the real world, worst August for stocks since 2001,... 

Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:05 PM (1) - Wednesday,  07/07/10  11:05 PM

A happy day; got up early, worked out, watched Le...  Did you know? Today was cold in San Diego; the...  ...  The purple circle was me at Aperio. It was good for...  Tonight I finished Idoru. Another William Gibson...  The Slurp digital eyedropper. Sucks in digital...  Truth is stranger than The Onion: A giant step toward... 

Sunday, June 27, 2010 08:55 PM (1) - Sunday,  06/27/10  08:55 PM

I think I'm back to full strength after three good...  Eric Raymond is right: Reports of PC's Impending Death...  I'm linking this just for the cool artist's...  Watched a little of the World Cup's knockout round...  Tomorrow's games are likely to be interesting;...  Facebook has a huge network effect, which is why it is...  Schrödinger's kit: Tools that are in two places at... 

Saturday, June 26, 2010 07:07 PM (1) - Saturday,  06/26/10  07:07 PM

I did a considerable amount of nothing today, reading...  Did make time for a little spreadsheet work - before...  The Financial Post: [Gulf oil spill was an] Avertable...  Bertelan Mesko links Who is paying for the U.S....  Yesterday I mentioned Josh Newman; one his best posts...  Nerd alert: my life as a square (pixel). My...  Did you know your Palm Pre can double as a barbeque... 

week of 6/7, redux (1) - Saturday,  06/12/10  07:25 PM

Today was the greatest day imaginable; I did...  And in the meantime, it *was* rather an interesting...  Steven Den Beste: What a difference a year makes. ...  On June 4 as reported: Space X achieves orbit with the...  Michael Lewis' latest, The Big Short, is now out on...  I must tell you, today I had occasion to watch the...  And so we had Apple's WWDC, and so Steve Jobs gave the... 

week of 5/10, redux (1) - Friday,  05/14/10  06:35 PM

A rare Friday night post, and I catch up after another...  ...meanwhile, it's all...  The sneakiest. design. ever. aka what to do if you're...  Mike Arrington posts a fantastic rant: You're welcome,...  ArsTechnica: Google fails to revolutionize cellphone...  Adobe launches "we love Apple" campaign. ...  BTW have you noticed what a bloated pile of junk Adobe... 

1+1=1 on 5/5/10 (1) - Thursday,  05/06/10  10:20 PM

Back home after a busy week down in Vista, and looking...  I wish I could explain the headline - you would love...  Mark Andreessen has a great post: Big Enough for the...  Tuesday I blogged about Google's Chrome speed test...  Engadget posted A review of the Kin One and Kin Two,...  This looks useful: iPhone app development: the missing...  From the Onion: Supreme Court upholds freedom of... 

Sunday, May 02, 2010 06:31 PM (1) - Sunday,  05/02/10  06:31 PM

Quiet little Sunday... still in recovery from the ride...  So... can you even believe it is May already? May! I...  You already know the United Nations is beyond parody,...  This is correct: 'Immigration' isn't the problem. ...  I'm linking this just for the excellent use of the...  And you may ask yourself, what it is good for? I...  BTW we can put the consistently clueless Leander... 

Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:25 PM (1) - Thursday,  04/29/10  11:25 PM

Whew, back. Or rather on my way back; this is being...  I don't get all the opposition to the Arizona...  BTW same comment on policing our borders and enforcing...  From the amazing Chris Muir, who draws day-by-day:...  And so HP have bought Palm. I tend to take the...  Daring Fireball: "Strikes me as a great move for both...  Brad Feld asks: Are storytellers the best programmers?... 

week of 4/12, redux (1) - Sunday,  04/18/10  10:39 PM

A rather tumultuous week, as I recovered from my week...  And meanwhile, it's all happening "out there",...  Obama outlines strategy for deep space. "President...  Google buys Plink to improve Google Goggles. Makes...  It had to happen: the 1TB SSD arrives. It costs...  Paul Graham with another classic think piece: Organic...  Wired: Icelandic Volcano's Ash Plume as Seen From... 

week of 4/5, redux (1) - Sunday,  04/11/10  08:53 PM

I'm baack... whew. Quite a week, in Europe, what...  And so now I am back, and it's all...  Bill Whittle: Vigilance and the Siren Song of the...  Here's the Velonews replay: Cancellara conquers...  Interesting question: Cancellara to challenge...  Meanwhile, Chris Horner gets his txapela, wins Basque...  Ted Dziuba undergoes a blog upgrade. I sometimes... 

week of 3/22, redux (1) - Sunday,  03/28/10  09:50 AM

And so I am back from a week in Washington DC, an...  (and not to mention back from riding a double century...  ...but while all that was happening for me, all this...  Well, the health care reform bill was signed (aka...  My little city of Westlake Village has applied for...  Bringing improved support for Flash to Google Chrome. ...  Hendrik Hertzberg: Some Nukes (making the case for... 

week of 3/15, redux (1) - Saturday,  03/20/10  06:21 PM

Greetings blog public, this is coming to you from...  So I'm looking out my hotel window, and atop a nearby...  And now, a filter...  Health Care reform passes, but at what cost? "This...  Victor Davis Hanson says we've crossed the Rubicon. ...  The Yike Bike, a strange new bike designed to be...  NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older. ... 

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:44 PM (1) - Wednesday,  03/03/10  11:44 PM

(yawn) man I'm a bit tired but I will make a filter...  Craig Mod: Books in the age of the iPad. [ via Daring...  JPL asks Is that Saturn's moon Titan, or Utah? ...  Facebook for WebOs gets a much-needed update. Indeed,...  I'll leave you with this pretty excellent Rube... 

Monday, March 01, 2010 11:08 PM (1) - Monday,  03/01/10  11:08 PM

March, whew. And I am back in Vista, for the week,...  Among the positives of being on the road, I've...  Will Obama still be blaming Bush in 2012? ...  Technoccult: The philosophy of punk rock mathematics. ...  There's a new Tivo in town, the Series 4 aka XL. I'm... 

Friday, February 26, 2010 05:08 PM (1) - Friday,  02/26/10  05:08 PM

Wow, a quiet day, wrapping up a week which was...  Now that America has the America's Cup back, there is...  Here we have a cool slideshow of mind-bending optical...  Once again with the confusion between correlation and...  Or how about this one: Writing headlines about IQ...  News you can use: the mathematics behind a good...  Okay, you know I'm a fan of speedskating, and I'm... 

Sunday, February 14, 2010 05:30 PM (1) - Sunday,  02/14/10  05:30 PM

A nice quiet Valentine's Day... hung out, coded,...  Robert Scoble: The elephants in the room at TED. ...  TTAC: An illustrated history of automotive...  Philip Greenspun: Factory Navigation System pricing. ...  And here we have Computer Engineer Barbie. I am not...  Well, why not? I wonder if she likes...  Wrapping up the weekend, here we have the ZooBorn of... 

iPad (1) - Wednesday,  01/27/10  11:39 PM

And so it is the iPad. Really? Wow, not the best...  I found the Engadget liveblog to be the best. And now...  My own takeaway: Apple's strategy is right there. ...  BTW largely neglected in the recaps was the iLife...  BTW2 yeah, this will be a threat to the Kindle. I'm...  I noted earlier that this event would be compared to...  Pundits of... 

week of 1/18/10, redux (1) - Friday,  01/22/10  09:39 PM

Wow what a week, sorry I've been gone... meetings all...  ...but enough about me, because it's all...  And so how did you feel last Monday? Blue? "Today is...  News of the week was of course Scott Brown's...  Ann Althouse had a great suggestion for what Obama...  Gerard Vanderleun asks the question: Are we better off...  Conservatives certainly are; as the review on Hot Air... 

Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:15 PM (2) - Thursday,  01/07/10  11:15 PM

Well, the college football season is f i n a l l y ...  My comment on last night's game; it was better than we...  And so it is time to switch to pro football; speaking...  Apropos, Kottke notes the rise of the punter. "Are...  He averaged 52.7 yards for his six punts; all six were...  Yippee the Palm Pre Plus is out (do we call it the...  [Update: Engadget's hands' on report. They like it,... 

Act Three (1) - Wednesday,  01/06/10  11:34 PM

Act Three, in which it all plays out......  So, what do you love about music? To begin with,...  ...  I think I need to see Avatar again. There is an...  I am [re]reading William Gibson's neuromancer. For...  ...  Hello? ... 

Thursday, December 31, 2009 09:39 AM (1) - Thursday,  12/31/09  09:39 AM

Time and past time for a filter pass... Happy New...  In the meantime... let's see what's happening out...  Obama and Iran: this is a moment in history, and he's...  On the TSA: "their obsession with fighting the last...  NewScientist: the year in space,...  So I upgraded my little Pre to 1.3.5, and I love it. ...  So I say "I love my Pre", and iPhone users say "yeah... 

Sunday, December 27, 2009 10:23 PM (1) - Sunday,  12/27/09  10:23 PM

Did you have a nice Christmas weekend? I hope so... ...  I don't like engaging in speculation but man, the...  Jamie Zawinski: how to use Facebook with a feed...  Picture of the day, a mountain Yak (click to...  So here is some important work: study finds link...  Unbelievable: as of this Holiday season Amazon's...  An interesting little mini discussion on Instapundit... 

Pre blogging (1) - Wednesday,  12/16/09  08:39 PM

This is coming to you live from the Charthouse in Dana...  And today was pretty good too! Okay, let's see how...  It looks like healthcare reform might die completely. ...  Red, White, and Sacre Bleu: How American Wines Shocked...  Wow, Toyota testing a plug-in Prius, to go on sale in...  Jeff Atwood celebrates International Backup Day; he's...  Joel Spolsky suggests let's stop talking about... 

Monday, December 07, 2009 10:35 AM (1) - Monday,  12/07/09  10:35 AM

And so a maximally busy week gets off to a rather...  And now I am blogging. ...  Cool news of the day, or of any other day: Google...  A report from the Copenhagen Climate Summit: 1,200...  TechCrunch: getting it right and wrong with the new...  This is cool: Google is using 2D barcodes to link...  Well you know this was going to happen: the iPhone... 

Friday, November 13, 2009 05:43 PM (2) - Friday,  11/13/09  05:43 PM

Wrapping up a busy week, getting ready for a...  This afternoon I rode Rockstore for the first time in...  The Palm Pixi is out, and Engadget posted a rather...  Along with the Pixi we get WebOS 1.3.1; I installed it...  Linked just for the title: Grand Theft Koyaanisqatsi. ...  Once again we must note; pre-roll video ads strongly...  Bram Cohen (author of Bittorrent and Python... 

Monday, November 09, 2009 11:21 PM (1) - Monday,  11/09/09  11:21 PM

A nice little day of work and work and work (followed...  Did you read Freakonomics? Did you like it? Then...  Dave Winer loves the Droid. The key for him is...  Speaking of user experience, Jan Mikovsky introduces...  Jeff Atwood: Whitespace, the silent killer. I love...  ArsTechnica celebrates the fifth birthday of Firefox. ...  Tim Oren warns of Buzzword heath death. It is so... 

Saturday, October 31, 2009 04:51 PM (1) - Saturday,  10/31/09  04:51 PM

A quick blogging pass before trick or treating... ...  The Economist notes Falling Fertility. "As...  Philip Greenspun comments: Health Insurance is a basic...  To see why this is so, try substituting something else...  So, you want to be a VC, eh? Prepare yourself for a...  The Motorola Druid is out, and Engadget has a review. ...  So it is the first weekend of November. Shopping... 

Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:59 AM (1) - Sunday,  09/27/09  10:59 AM

A beautiful morning, wow, it is wonderful and warm...  Yesterday I had a real jolt; I began my final approach...  On the off chance that I can ride I stocked up on...  ...  So later today I will do a training ride. And then...  My hero Andrew Breitbart: Podesta spends Soros' money...  Today's blatant correlation vs. causality confusion:... 

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:12 PM (1) - Tuesday,  09/22/09  10:12 PM

Well, I'm sick. Stayed home today and tried to...  Serious wind today; the true harbinger of fall in our...  Ten watches that shape the future of watchmaking. ...  Io in true color - bright yellow. ...  Jeff Jarvis looks at the new Google Sidewiki - a way...  New study says Palm Pre second only to iPhone in...  ZooBorn of the day: a little Pudu. These are the... 

Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:10 PM (1) - Thursday,  09/10/09  11:10 PM

Now I lay me down to sleep... exit light, enter night....  Ann Althouse takes a cold look at the text of Obama's...  The Universe, in high definition! As the Hubble's new...  Wave of the day: psycho-slab. ...  It's a smartphone world: Like you, I get an email from...  Speaking of smartphones, the Palm Pre has a little...  Twitter and the revenue dilemma. The argument being,... 

week of August 10, redux (1) - Sunday,  08/16/09  03:53 PM

The world's busiest week, bar none. I went directly...  Koyaanisqatsi - Life out of Balance. My work / life...  Ron Hart: Obama discovers that heath care reform is a...  Powerline: Back in the USPS. The postal service is a...  Ha! Ann Althouse wonders is Hillary Clinton Secretary...  An old post from Robert Scoble (just popped into my...  A new study says Twitter is [at least] 40% pointless. ... 

week of August 3, redux (1) - Sunday,  08/16/09  11:20 AM

Man, what a week! Feels like I didn't have a spare...  blazing dawn: the way my week startedStarted with a...  From there I had many meetings, a quick bike ride,...  And many more meetings, dawn to dusk, including a...  And a midnight bike ride from Carlsbad to Torrey Pines...  And many more meetings, dawn to dusk,at which critical...  And then a day of work work work in which I caught up... 

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:08 PM (1) - Tuesday,  07/28/09  11:08 PM

Up early, long drive, back to back to back meetings,...  Back to blogging to music. Now by Def Leppard. I...  Andrew Breitbart notes The President's Accidental Gift...  See the power of this fully operational blogosphere:...  Must see to believe: Video: life-altering 3D...  More video to watch: time-lapse videos chronicling the...  TechCrunch note: Best. Comment. Ever. "AT&T: You... 

Sunday, July 26, 2009 07:49 PM (1) - Sunday,  07/26/09  07:49 PM

A very nice day, capping a very nice weekend, as Meg...  Shirley and I celebrated our 17th anniversary last...  Associated Press goes to war with search engines and...  Victor David Hanson imagines how Obama's first six...  Powerline notes: Obama's decline continues. Check out...  Yesterday's TDF stage 20 revisited: I came across a...  Another TDF note: I realized Johan Bruyneel deserves... 

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:55 PM (1) - Tuesday,  07/21/09  10:55 PM

Still tired. I seem unable to sleep enough, and then...  Pre-report: Battery life A-OK. Lovin' it. I always...  Sounds-like-an-Onion-headline of the day: Entire moon...  Ben Rometsch: Google Wave, first impressions. I don't...  Something I continue to believe doesn't have a there...  Hilarious: the Bio-Comedian. ( Powerpoint comedy...  News you can use: is it safer to drive drunk or on the... 

Monday, July 13, 2009 10:31 PM (2) - Monday,  07/13/09  10:31 PM

Yikes, I crashed hard into reality this morning, after...  I am almost ready to try my Palm Pre again. The...  The Amazing Alfa Romeo yacht smashed the Long Beach to...  Wouldn't it be fun to have enough money and time to...  My company's Dilbert moment; today our HR team...  John Gruber on Anil Dash's comments on Google's...  Speaking of operating systems, check this out: Windows... 

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:28 PM (1) - Tuesday,  06/30/09  10:28 PM

Quarter end! Gak, already!! I had the most...  So let's make a filter pass, shall...  Absolutely the saddest story: Father and Son Grand...  No idea what to make of this: Swedish software firm...  Remember I commented on Alaska Airlines' "north of...  An interview with Bill Gurley of Benchmark...  Q: Opentable is one of the first 'silicon valley'... 

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:19 PM (1) - Tuesday,  06/23/09  11:19 PM

A productive day of work - dawn to dusk - and a nice...  One thing I think I know; music makes me happy. I get...  Philip Greenspun discusses the new Cirrus Jet. "This...  Elon Musk gives his version of Tesla's history. It's...  While I'm waiting for a working Pre (you will remember...  John Gruber links John Dvorak in 2007: Apple should...  Picture of the day: this shot of the Round the Island... 

Thursday, June 11, 2009 08:41 PM (1) - Thursday,  06/11/09  08:41 PM

I've been thinking about my little dogs all day; I...  Oh goody: Citi sets plan to convert $58B in stock. ...  Yay; the Lakers won a nail-biter tonight, winning game...  In the [rather large] category of cool boats I've...  Dave Winer on the impending Facebook personal name...  Jason Kottke updates us on the search for alien life:...  You might have read about Denis Menchov winning the... 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:36 PM (1) - Wednesday,  06/10/09  11:36 PM

Whew, man it has been an eventful couple of days... ...  Forbes on the ARRA: the $787B mistake. "The bottom...  Cory Doctorow gives Julian Comstock a glowing review. ...  ... although I have to because I'm still reading...  And so now Google Apps sync with Outlook. Wow. That...  Related, at least in my mind, this month marks the...  Here we have the Penguin USB drive. Wow, I love it. ... 

Monday, June 08, 2009 10:15 PM (1) - Monday,  06/08/09  10:15 PM

Had a crummy day at work (todo list longer now than...  PS some of you asked about clothing on the snow day,...  Did you know you can read this very blog on your...  Tim Bray echoes John Gruber on whether physical...  Today was Apple's WWDC, Steve Jobless, and Phil...  Jeff Atwood: Unix is dead, long live Unix. "So, yes,...  BTW wasn't it great when real programmers had real... 

Thursday, June 04, 2009 07:56 PM (1) - Thursday,  06/04/09  07:56 PM

Busy day getting ready for some downtime; riding the...  You know that phrase "so easy my Mom could do it"? ...  LGF reviews President Obama's speech to the Islamic...  Cool: US Air Force to launch space plane. "While next...  Telsa is expanding into Europe, opening three...  This is amazing: a panorama of the bridge from the...  Time Magazine has long since ceased to be relevant (to... 

Pre views (1) - Thursday,  06/04/09  08:13 AM

The preview Pre units are out, and the Pre reviews are...  Some of these reviews are actual reviews, some are...  I can't wait to get mine, but I might have to; I'm...  [Update: you might enjoy Palm's amazing "Flow" ad... ...  [Update #2: here's the Pre's "first run" video... way... 

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:54 PM (1) - Tuesday,  05/19/09  11:54 PM

Late night blogging - I'm pretty tired after a l o n...  Completed the Kessel run again tonight but not quite...  Twenty-five logos with hidden messages. (For example,...  The latest bailout request: too big to fail. I love...  It's official: SolarWinds breaks nine-month IPO...  Sounds-like-the-Onion-but-isn't headline of the day:...  Great for both: Daimler buys 10% stake in Tesla (for a... 

Monday, May 18, 2009 11:58 PM (1) - Monday,  05/18/09  11:58 PM

Kind of an interesting day today, had some good...  *rode Malibu CC in 1:59:26, not my best but not bad. ...  ...and I have a metric ton of travel coming up,...  Well enough about me, let's see what's happening "out...  Rant of the day, or of any day: Daily Kos' Kos notes...  Apparently Wired magazine can't sell ads. Too bad,...  As an aside, I've loved Wired since issue #0, and can... 

Thursday, May 14, 2009 08:54 PM (1) - Thursday,  05/14/09  08:54 PM

It was so nice to be home today, a beautiful day and I...  Today is Reggie's seventh birthday. Woo hoo! Or as...  Last night I noted that Amazon is now letting anyone...  There does seem to be a teeny glitch, anyone can...  I'm pretty much a Malcolm Gladwell fan, but I do have...  Next week Angels & Demons will be released, yay!...  Where is it written that movies have to have such... 

Monday, May 11, 2009 07:31 PM (2) - Monday,  05/11/09  07:31 PM

ZZZzzz... what? Oh, I have to post, yeah, right. ...  I am hoping to escape my schedule briefly, to see Star...  From the New Yorker's 5/11/09 issue, one of their most...  Howard Kurtz thinks Lack of Vision to blame for...  The Robot Hall of Fame is expanding to include Da...  The Shuttle Atlantis has a perfect lift-off, on its...  Jeff Atwood: the browser address field is the new... 

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:15 PM (1) - Wednesday,  05/06/09  11:15 PM

And so today was Megan's birthday and also Shirley's...  I can tell what kind of day I've had by the tools I...  Can I just say, I love Capresso. (I guess I can, this...  Yay, we have another roller, the WSJ's Daily Startup...  This intrigues me - Dell are now shipping systems with...  Microsoft integrates Photosynth with Visual Earth. ...  ZooBorn of the day: a baby Manatee.... 

Monday, May 04, 2009 11:37 PM (1) - Monday,  05/04/09  11:37 PM

Work work work but made great progress (isn't a funny...  Watched He's Just Not That Into You tonight. I though...  I agree with this: TechCrunch thinks the big screen...  There's a lot on the net about the Hunt for Gollum,...  Tim Oren: Gollum, the dancing bear. I haven't watched...  Meanwhile while we're waiting for ever-cooler...  Picture of the day? Titan peeking out from behind... 

Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:59 PM (1) - Thursday,  04/30/09  10:59 PM

Had a couple of really busy days, whew... working on...  The big news of the day is that my daughter Jordan...  Note to self: always buy a car on the last day of the...  Old tech rules: I just (re)discovered that I can use...  Not good: the GDP drops 6.1%. "Economists had...  I happened to watch some of President Obama's '100...  David Letterman interviews Elon Musk of Tesla. Pretty... 

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:51 PM (1) - Tuesday,  04/28/09  11:51 PM

Still feeling crappy, restless, high-energy but...  One year ago I was recovering my hard drive, and...  Slashdot: Why digital medical records are no panacea. ...  Keith Kaplan: web tracking of swine flu. I'm trying...  Remember that giant "model" rocket? Well, they...  As go the car companies, so too go the car magazine;...  Eric Sink discusses time and space tradeoffs in... 

Monday, April 06, 2009 10:36 PM (2) - Monday,  04/06/09  10:36 PM

Blogging from Chicago... a little drunk and a lot...  Had a magnificent meal tonight at Blackbird. Highly...  Project Q report: 0 cycles invested. ...  The Dodgers began their 2009 stretch run today,...  From the HIMSS conference, which I attended, HIMSS...  Related: Tech firms eager to gobble stimulus funds. ...  Here's an interesting post on TechCrunch about... 

Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:44 PM (1) - Thursday,  04/02/09  11:44 PM

Greetings, blog readers! And there are many of you...  TheScientist asks an excellent question: Why Sleep? ...  Isn't is weird how yawning is contagious? I keep...  Farewell "mark to market", we hardly knew ya: Did...  Looks like the Palm Pre is going to be able to emulate...  Check out this remarkable blog from Louis C.K. who is...  Bruce Friedman wonders do hospitals really want... 

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:26 PM (2) - Tuesday,  03/31/09  10:26 PM

Another instance of "the world's longest day"; I...  I have decided that Almost Famous is my favorite movie...  National Geographic: The Top Ten Toughest Races. I...  Isn't she beautiful? Wow, the new Ran under sail... ...  Josh Newman, who makes movies, quotes Walt Disney: "We...  Stephen Baker observes that Tivo is antisocial. "This...  So now we have Skype for iPhone, and I can't figure... 

Sunday, March 22, 2009 09:07 AM (1) - Sunday,  03/22/09  09:07 AM

Spent yesterday working, and watching basketball (I'll...  ... and last night Shirley and I attended "Swinging on...  Oh, and yes I did win an auction for a Saxo Bank team...  I'm sure you've heard about Barack Obama's gift to...  Instapundit: Bush league? This isn't even A...  Victor David Hanson: Why are so many Americans...  Scott Loftesness tells a great Henry Kissinger... 

Friday, February 20, 2009 10:14 PM (1) - Friday,  02/20/09  10:14 PM

Some quick notes while recuperating from today's ...  This is pretty funny: the [aerodynamic] cost of water...  Yesterday I noted the wonderful Darwin: change over...  John Gruber: Untitled Document syndrome. I agree with...  This is rather intriguing: The TealOS brings the Pre...  ZooBorn of the day: you can't go wrong with baby... 

Sunday, February 01, 2009 11:09 PM (1) - Sunday,  02/01/09  11:09 PM

Inebriated blogging... you have been warned....  So today was the fantabulous Super Bowl, and it was a...  I'm not a Bruce Springsteen fan by any means, but I do...  Oh, and the Super ads (which I watched, since we were...  Yes, I confess I did spend time drinking in the bar...  Apple and Adobe working together to ship Flash on an...  Ouch: LATimes to cut 300 jobs in latest round. Will... 

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:51 PM (1) - Wednesday,  01/28/09  11:51 PM

I'm feeling a bit better about things - yeah, I've...  And meanwhile it's all...  I've written a bit about Floyd Landis lately; Cycling...  FanDome: The mystery of the yellow line. Who knew it...  Offline GMail launched. This I want to check out. ...  So Apple has threatened to enforce their multitouch... 

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:23 PM (1) - Tuesday,  01/27/09  10:23 PM

Another ice cold day in San Diego, brrr... and...  I'm starting to settle into the reality of 2009, new...  Meanwhile, the blogosphere continues to...  I'm getting ready for the Tour of California; riding...  So now we have a bill which would mandate an audible...  This is a pretty cool evolutionary strategy:...  Here we have twenty photographs that look like HDR,... 

Monday, January 26, 2009 10:16 PM (1) - Monday,  01/26/09  10:16 PM

In Vista today, and it is cold... did a ride tonight...  Well, let's make a filter pass, shall...  Tonight I was listening to Santana, selected by my...  Supercool: An HD tour of the International Space...  Wired ran a great timeline picture: 25 years of the...  I love Wired, but I noticed this too: Wired's February...  As an aficionado of giant images, I had to note this:... 

Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:51 PM (1) - Thursday,  01/15/09  10:51 PM

Greetings, all... and there appear to be more of you,...  So today was a good day, slept in, solved a tricky...  So let's see what's happening out in the blogos, shall...  I have been ruminating on what I'm calling "the...  Want to know how lame the NYTimes has become? Check...  Want to learn about global warming? Really? Then...  Meanwhile, with crude oil at $35/barrel, giant... 

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:42 PM (1) - Tuesday,  01/13/09  11:42 PM

I am the world's tiredest person... (yawn) This will...  I am reasonably good at keeping myself awake while...  Update on my weird disaster: it may be possible to...  Glenn Reynolds links Steven Green: Is Time rooting for...  Cool; Inhabitat notes a folding bike that really...  Apparently Tesla have licensed their battery...  Robert Scoble once again tries to make the case for... 

Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:56 AM (1) - Sunday,  01/11/09  11:56 AM

I spent last night recuperating from the ride (and...  Don't you hate dislike it when bloggers put up a "test...  Last night I watched the Ravens squeak by the Titans;...  During football there are a metric ton of commercials...  Speaking of the Pre, Palm's CES presentation is now...  Palm have now introduces the App Catalog, a place for...  One more Pre -note; there are rumors that the device... 

Pre views (1) - Thursday,  01/08/09  11:51 PM

Pre-blogging: ...  I can't wait to get in my Pre-order... 

Palm Pre! (1) - Thursday,  01/08/09  12:52 PM

Looks like I have to get a new phone! The Palm...  ...  An iPhone with a real keyboard. Thank you thank you...  And it will be on Sprint first. Thank you again....  Many analysts said Palm had to hit a home run. Looks...  [ Update: I'm reading the details; wild stuff like the... 

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:52 PM (1) - Wednesday,  01/07/09  11:52 PM

Whew, tired. L o n g day, capped by a long ride, and...  I have been doing more introspecting about what I do...  Global Cooling: Sea ice returns to 1979 levels. ...  News of the day: Michael Rasmussen eyes a comeback. ...  Sorry but I'm not gadget blogging CES. Please visit...  One cool thing: Win7 is now in a public beta! A newer...  TinEye image search looks cool. I'll have to play... 

Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:14 PM (1) - Thursday,  12/11/08  11:14 PM

Ouch. Sore from the wipeout. Otherwise happy;...  Meanwhile, let's make a pass on the blogosphere, shall...  Yay! Auto bailout bill stalls in Senate. I do not...  Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No,...  Mike Arrington thinks this is the best commercial ever...  I must say I kind of feel bad for Mike; his site...  I see the same thing with Engadget and Gizmodo, and... 

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 09:54 AM (1) - Tuesday,  12/09/08  09:54 AM

Man, it was cold today - 40s! - and windy... really...  Well actually I did escape this morning for an...  I can report that the mall was uncrowded. Whether...  This is so cool: celebrating the 40th anniversary of...  BoingBoing has a message from the auto industry: you...  Well this sucks; ads coming soon to a paused Tivo menu...  Here we have the ukulele version of "while my guitar... 

Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:10 PM (1) - Sunday,  11/16/08  11:10 PM

Well I really am back - spent the day catching up, on...  One thing, I happened upon my BOO! post of 10/31, in...  The fires around here are terrible: Los Angeles ringed...  An old post from John Robb that bears rereading: Very...  Michael Yon, from Baghdad: "The war is over and we...  Drudge reports Senate will take up $25B auto bill...  Can this be right? Obama considering Hillary for... 

Monday, November 03, 2008 11:11 PM (1) - Monday,  11/03/08  11:11 PM

Well this is it, huh? After all that time and money,...  I had a busy day today, still collating feedback and...  In other news, I rode Malibu CC again today, set my...  Arthur Laffer in the WSJ: The Age of Prosperity Is...  So you know how I like my little Dash Express, right? ...  Amazon announces frustration-free packaging. Yay! ...  Everything you knew about warming up is wrong:... 

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:51 PM (1) - Wednesday,  10/29/08  11:51 PM

Okay, here we go, the Ole filter makes a pass (on...  Congratulations to the Phillies for winning the World...  Panda's Thumb has a series of beautiful pictures of...  Rob Harris sarcastically observes Blu-Ray is dead,...  Speaking of online video (we were); Netflix movies can...  TechCrunch reports Google Earth comes to the iPhone,...  Some space porn: Wired has Mercury as you've never... 

Sunday, October 12, 2008 08:12 PM (1) - Sunday,  10/12/08  08:12 PM

Blogging on a Sunday in October, cold outside (50s),...  From my archives, a four-year-old post which describes...  A good call, from May 2006: "We are concerned that if...  Is it time to buy stocks? Not clear, maybe the stock...  Photo of the day: jumping dolphins. Beautiful. ...  Time wonders Is laser-powered HDTV the highest def...  LaCie ups the ante with 7.5TB for $1,900 (in a very... 

Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:33 PM (1) - Thursday,  10/09/08  10:33 PM

So how are you holding up? I am feeling better...  Today I saw an email thread from one of Aperio's...  It is becoming apparent that investor confidence is...  Drudge had this link to Yahoo Finance, showing the Dow...  The Economist thinks a global recession...  A silver lining: Oil plummets to...  Here's Powerline's nominee for greatest political... 

10-4 (1) - Saturday,  10/04/08  11:27 AM

Good morning! And it is a good morning, a great...  I decided I was against any kind of government bailout...  My boss Dirk sent me this presentation: The Subprime...  Has anyone out there tried Fring? This is a VoIP...  I cannot read Fring without interpreting it as...  World's fastest cyclist hits 82.3mph. Wow, my...  Tivo have been busy; they've announced a deal with... 

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 11:08 PM (2) - Wednesday,  10/01/08  11:08 PM

Well, I'm baaack to blogging. This is all done under...  What do you do when all hell breaks loose in the world...  I like this one from the WSJ: Congress lives up to its...  I thought Slate summed up last Friday's debate...  Here's some important analysis: how has the financial...  Something really great did happen on Sunday: SpaceX...  Actually next up is the F9, which has nine of the... 

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:27 PM (1) - Wednesday,  09/03/08  11:27 PM

I was totally heads' down today, coding and...  Of course today's biggest news was Sarah Palin's...  At the Vuelta, Levi Leipheimer won today's time trial...  Russell Beattie observes Tweets kill that blogging...  This is cool: the Energy Ball wind turbine. I want...  From Chris "long tail" Anderson: Fourteen free...  Oh, and this is nice: a new DirectTV Tivo which... 

Friday, August 29, 2008 11:18 PM (1) - Friday,  08/29/08  11:18 PM

Amazing how the Gov. Palin announcement dominated the...  My main reaction surprises me: I'm really happy a...  Interesting: how a college sophomore won Sarah Palin...  John Dickerson: huh? I think all the "huh?" reactions...  Wired: Mazda building a Volt of its own. The...  This looks really cool: Blaupunkt nav overlay on live...  Remember Elementeo, the board game about Chemistry? ... 

Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:21 PM (1) - Thursday,  08/07/08  11:21 PM

Today was a mixed bag; I enjoyed scheduling a release...  Actually one of the first events of the Olympics is...  Engadget tells us how to get the most out of the 2008...  I love this ad from McCain, especially that great...  McCain and Obama both commented on Bambi, guess who...  Right there you have the stark difference between...  Martin Eberhard, ex-CEO of Tesla, has driven 1,000... 

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:15 PM (1) - Wednesday,  07/23/08  11:15 PM

Still buzzed from watching today's Tour stage. Whew. ...  TechCrunch reports MedPedia is Wikifying the medical...  AEG, organizers of the Tour of California, have...  Ottmar Liebert is playing the Canyon Club on Sept 13! ...  Disney is offering a remote control Wall-E. Of course...  Rumor has it that Apple is preparing a "Macbook... 

Sunday, July 06, 2008 10:45 PM (1) - Sunday,  07/06/08  10:45 PM

Re-emerging from stealth mode :) Good day spent...  Samizdata asks Latest attack on John McCain: The worst...  Meanwhile McCain campaign calls Obama's words into...  So Thor Hushovd won stage 2 of Le Tour; a nice uphill...  Ottmar Liebert with some interesting ideas on Ideas...  This is pretty awesome - a floating ball display at...  Sailing Anarchy links a rather awesome video of Moths... 

Sunday, June 29, 2008 07:42 PM (1) - Sunday,  06/29/08  07:42 PM

Spent another lazy Sunday afternoon messing about in...  It must be said, two consecutive days of not working...  Talk about depressing; guess what arrived in the mail...  Have you been following all the fires in Northern...  I love this headline, about the Supreme Court's Heller...  The London Times: Cheer up, we're winning the war on...  Another case of gloom-and-doom denied: Palm's 4th... 

Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:46 PM (1) - Thursday,  06/26/08  10:46 PM

I'm feeling kind of melancholy today... don't know...  I'm getting ready to ride the great Grand Tour Double...  ...  A question for McCain and Obama: Will they recognize...  Horses's Mouth has a picture of the magnificent Crab...  China Impressions, from Electric Daybook. "One WTF...  Are you smart enough not to build this website? Hint:... 

happy summer solstice! (1) - Saturday,  06/21/08  11:20 PM

Hi everyone, happy summer solstice! Yep, the longest...  Megan pointed out something really interesting; why is...  Boo. The Russians upset the Dutch, knocking them out...  This is pretty interesting, the Mayo Clinic has...  Last Wednesday Ottmar Liebert posted two thoughts, one...  PVRBlog links Gizmodo: the history of the Tivo remote....  BTW in case you're wondering, yes, I love my TivoHD. ... 

school's out for summer... (2) - Thursday,  06/12/08  11:11 PM

... school's out for ever, school's out completely...  Well okay not completely, but yes today was Megan's...  Megan and I did take a ride together to celebrate...  And today was a day for reflection in other ways;...  Dude, where's my recession? Retail sales jump by...  Well, boo; the Lakers lost to the Celtics tonight,...  Tomorrow is a big day in sports; Holland plays France... 

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 04:47 PM (1) - Wednesday,  06/11/08  04:47 PM

I am feeling overwhelmed, guilty, and unproductive. ...  Cory Doctorow links Linda "continuous partial...  If you don’t have an hour to watch the Jobsnote from...  You may have heard Pluto is no longer a planet? So...  Toyota have announced that they're going to have...  So apparently Aston Martin is going public. Cool. ...  Mark Pilgrim: Purity. I love it. ... 

Monday, June 09, 2008 09:16 PM (4) - Monday,  06/09/08  09:16 PM

Hi all! Today was iPhone 3G day; unless you were...  ...  Want to see eight months compressed into eight...  So Alejandro Valverde won stage 1 of the Dauphiné...  Congratulations to Ken Griffey for hitting his 600th...  So, to the iPhone 3G: Wow. Here's the WWDC keynote if...  I monitored the keynote "live" using Engadget; it was... 

Monday, June 02, 2008 09:52 PM (2) - Monday,  06/02/08  09:52 PM

Well as of today I am no longer the Motrin man; I've...  Today for some reason the people at StumbleUpon...  Okay, so let's make a pass on the blogosphere, shall...  Now that Obama's nomination as Democratic candidate...  The always reliable and interesting Victor Davis...  One more thing: Obama is going to have to stop...  Joel Spolsky pontificates about Office Space: "During... 

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:49 AM (1) - Wednesday,  05/28/08  11:49 AM

Just got home from a nice day in Vista... a really...  Meanwhile, here's what's happening in the real...  Gerard Vanderleun ponders the Pacifascists Among Us......  Megan's Dear Soldier letter, which I left up over...  Still loving my Centro. Each day brings a new...  My Centro-love lives in the shadow of everyone's...  Brad Feld asks What Do You Suck At? An important... 

Monday, May 26, 2008 11:26 PM (1) - Monday,  05/26/08  11:26 PM

I had a great weekend, thanks for asking... one of...  On Memorial Day Powerline asks Are we Safer? Most of...  So I am still really enjoying my new Centro. While in...  Isn't it weird that such an amazing capability could...  Alberto Contador is in pink; today he took over the...  Sadly, Dick Martin has died. Laugh-In was one of the...  The Mars Lander has landed! Successfully, all systems... 

Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:33 PM (2) - Thursday,  04/24/08  10:33 PM

Man, I ate and drank too much tonight (Osso Buco...  Actually before launching into a pass on the...  Wired: Hawking: Unintelligent life is likely on other...  From Tim Oren: Go as a Business Metaphor. "The whole...  You won't believe this, but there is a TV show I care...  Having you been following this? Amateur Hour over at... 

Sunday, April 06, 2008 09:16 PM (1) - Sunday,  04/06/08  09:16 PM

A day of coding, and of recovery... feeling pretty...  Tomorrow I'm going to Vista for day one in Aperio's...  So UCLA lost! Badly! I was otherwise occupied...  The Daily Mail features some stunning 3D photos of...  Pink Slip Nation? Well... "Actually, the...  Powerline on the Mark Penn fiasco: A Good Deed...  A fantastic opera review: Tristan and Two Isoldes,... 

Sunday, March 30, 2008 09:18 PM (1) - Sunday,  03/30/08  09:18 PM

Big week ahead for me - many meetings, much to do, and...  The Economist: Where angels no longer fear to tread;...  Powerline explains the current fighting in Iraq. If...  Reuters: Zimbabwe's meltdown in figures. These...  The fascinating inhabitat showcases Sustainable towers...  The Dash Express is now shipping! A two-way GPS,...  Mark Evans ponders Why Original Blog Thought is So... 

Monday, March 24, 2008 10:19 PM (1) - Monday,  03/24/08  10:19 PM

I guess this Jeremiah Wright thing really has legs; at...  Cassini continues to delight us all with spectacular...  Apparently there are Signs of Hidden Ocean Underneath...  Word association: I read Powerline's headline "hey...  Interesting discussion of housing prices on...  I try not to gadget blog too much - you can subscribe...  Important work: Scientists Discover Secret Sex Nerve. ... 

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 09:29 PM (1) - Wednesday,  03/19/08  09:29 PM

It is that time again, the Ides of March, the time for...  Wow, so Arthur C. Clarke has died, at 90, in Sri...  I totally love this: so at Geno's Steaks in...  I wish this would start a trend, for example: "This is...  Steven Frank on niches in a market: The First, the...  This is amazing: Stanford researchers cram 12,616 tiny...  Finally, here we have a wonderful picture of an Angel... 

Thursday, March 06, 2008 09:41 PM (1) - Thursday,  03/06/08  09:41 PM

Back in the saddle, herding my cats......  In case you're wondering, this is not me: Eichhorn...  You won't often get a TV show recommendation from me,...  This caught Engadget's eye, and mine too; Maxell to no...  BIG news today from Apple; the iPhone SDK. Seems like...  Daring Fireball: First Impressions and Questions. "I...  Fake Steve Jobs: Happy Now, Bitches? "Seriously,... 

Monday, February 25, 2008 11:58 PM (1) - Monday,  02/25/08  11:58 PM

Light posting tonight - I'm on negative time trying to...  Did you watch Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour of California?...  Picture of the day: the ISS hangs in suspended in...  Dog bites man: Castro rejects idea of political...  Wired: Free - why $0.00 is the future of business. ...  Cory Doctorow characterizes Free as the "divide by...  Here we have wiperless windshields, courtesy of that... 

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 09:59 PM (1) - Wednesday,  02/13/08  09:59 PM

Gone again, back again. A good trip, but it's good to...  While I was out, the good folks frequenting the Money...  Oh, and there is a lot going on out there... let's...  This is incredible: Randall Parker reports UCLA group...  LGF on Obama's CheGuevara-gate: Outside the beltway...  Congratulations to Parpec Virbac, who have won the...  I can't actually believe this: ASO have banned Astana... 

Monday, February 11, 2008 09:14 PM (1) - Monday,  02/11/08  09:14 PM

Big wheel keep on turning, proud Mary keep on burning,...  So today I was inundated with spam. I don't mean I...  Powerline notes a McCain endorsement worth paying...  Netflix picks Blu-Ray. Well, that should cook...  P.S. Have you voted in our wither DVD survey? Just a...  We had a nice day out here in So Cal, but it was a bit...  GNXP notes Richard Dawkins is retiring. One of my all... 

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 08:38 PM (1) - Wednesday,  02/06/08  08:38 PM

Today's news is all about yesterday; but really...  Glenn Reynolds links Conservatives dropped the ball,...  I saw this picture in a Google search result, and...  So here we have some receiver porn; Yamaha's new...  Some Dutch inventors have created a robot that...  John Gruber excellently fisks Jerry Yang's internal...  P.S. When I saw this post in my RSS reader, the pseudo... 

wither DVD? (1) - Wednesday,  02/06/08  08:21 PM

...  Boldly going where many have gone before, I want to...  (I have not run a survey since November 2005; I hope... 

Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:54 PM (1) - Thursday,  01/24/08  10:54 PM

I'm baaack! No worries, I was just traveling... I...  So an interesting thing has happened; my blog traffic...  Okay so this has been going on for a while -...  So more recently I changed the hotlink mechanism...  Okay, with that let's see what's going on "out...  Dave Winer: what woke me up about the Clintons. I...  Meanwhile, Geert Wilders Wakes Up the Netherlands. ... 

Friday, January 18, 2008 08:13 PM (1) - Friday,  01/18/08  08:13 PM

Man, what a boring day! It isn't all happening, in...  Powerline: What does success in Iraq look like? They...  Rand Simberg pens an Ode to Laziness. His real...  Robert X Cringley gives us The Big Picture following...  Last summer the "Wal-Mart PC" was announced; a cheap...  BTW I've read that the most contentious Wikipedia page... 

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 08:33 PM (1) - Wednesday,  01/16/08  08:33 PM

I'm back! (on my new laptop drive) Considering the...  Okay, with that out of the way, let's see what's...  The blogosphere is having a field day digesting...  My own morning after reaction: I still think iTunes...  And I'm wondering as I'm sure is Steve Jobs: how long...  Uncov skewers rewriting in Ajax: Just because you can,...  Kind of reminds me of Russell Beattie's WTF 2.0? "I... 

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 06:45 PM (1) - Tuesday,  01/08/08  06:45 PM

What is more exciting to you, CES or the New Hampshire...  This is awesome - a comparison of the HD and DVD...  Apple announced a new Mac Pro, with eight processors...  Have I told you I love The Truth About Cars? Well I...  Speaking of announceware, Sony BMG have fully...  You may know, Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, has a...  Here's a link I saved for you: Clive Thompson wonders... 

Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:18 AM (2) - Saturday,  01/05/08  10:18 AM

The promised storm *finally* materialized. It rained...  Did you see ZZTop at halftime of the FedEx Orange...  The game itself was pretty good, too. Although I must...  Speaking of old bands who are still great, all the...  How's this for a segue: Tesla changes CEOs, reports...  Looks like maybe Blu-ray is going to defeat HD-DVD...  Meanwhile, Business Week reports Sony BMG plans to... 

Monday, May 07, 2007 09:29 PM (1) - Monday,  05/07/07  09:29 PM

Some naval gazing; I have deleted my blogroll,...  I am happy to see my blog's traffic rising! Yippee...  So, what's happening in the Blogosphere, shall we...  The always invaluable Charles Johnson at LGF reminds...  I don't know what is worse, that 730 cars were burnt,...  Update: LGF reports both trends continue, more...  Posting about science vs faith reminded me to mention... 

Sunday, April 29, 2007 06:05 PM (1) - Sunday,  04/29/07  06:05 PM

Cool, I've already received some "welcome back"...  So, what's happening?...  While I have fallen out of the habit of posting I have...  Well first, Danilo Di Luca won Liège-Bastogne-Liège!...  Bill Burnham asks: Is it just me, or is GAAP...  Paul Graham lists the reasons Why not to start a...  This is already a bit dated but it was so great I had... 

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:27 PM (1) - Wednesday,  03/01/06  10:27 PM

Tonight is going to be serious. I'm in a feisty mood....  Can I just say, once again, publicly, how great...  I read Daily Kos, too, I don't just read what I agree...  I received this video from my colleague Mark Wrenn,...  Scott Adams on Strange Laws. "There are a lot of laws...  Douglas Murray: We Should Fear Holland's Silence. [...  Gerard Vanderleun: Saddam Lied on Tape. Somewhat less... 

Thursday, February 23, 2006 08:51 PM (1) - Thursday,  02/23/06  08:51 PM

One of my favorite bloggers is Joshua Newman. We've...  Floyd Landis won the stage 3 time trial of the Tour of...  We could call this "Pluto strikes back". After...  Today's economic lesson, courtesy of Eric Raymond:...  Here's more economics, courtesy of Scott Adams...  ...  [ via The Horses Mouth, who notes: "Sunday's Dilbert... 

caravans revisited (1) - Saturday,  02/18/06  08:26 AM

A long time ago I posted an article about caravans; my...  In my article I suggested that this feature was the...  { For more discussion on this, please see also my post...  { Later: caravans, cont....  Definitely worth a test drive, stay... 

coffee notes (1) - Saturday,  02/11/06  07:58 AM

Yippee I love coffee. And I'm having some right...  Today I plan to take my life in my hands. My computer...  Last night I had one of the best dinners of my life. ...  DFL - Celebrating last place finishes at the Olympics....  Gerard Vanderleun reprises a classic: Where the...  Cool rumor of the day: the Apple video iPod. "Think...  The case of the disappearing teaspoons. I love... 

Monday, February 06, 2006 09:04 PM (1) - Monday,  02/06/06  09:04 PM

Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species...  Gerald Vanderleun nails it: The Kids are Not All...  This is excellent - the U.S. has a new Pro Bike Racing...  Motley Fool: Money Matters for Google and eBay. A...  That said, it will be good for PayPal to have a...  Wow is this cool; a carbon fiber case for your iPod. ...  Steven Baker: Why RSS doesn't catch on. "Long story... 

Saturday, February 04, 2006 07:20 PM (1) - Saturday,  02/04/06  07:20 PM

So, tomorrow we have the Super Bowl. An eating...  Oh, yeah, and I did buy a new TV. A Fujitsu 55"...  Still to be figured out, also; does the really...  NYTimes on SpaceX: A bold plan to go where men have...  This is pretty cool: The Many Directions of Time. ...  Perhaps this could explain why I'm always late? Nah,...  Scott Adams is a wise man. Consider his WCM Method: ... 

restart n (1) - Sunday,  01/29/06  06:27 PM

Here we go again, yet another restart. I'm getting...  Recently I have been engaged with two ridiculous...  First, my TV. I have a perfectly great TV setup at...  I could always wait for SED, I...  BTW, if you find yourself in a similar situation,...  Pretty stupid to have such problems, right? My friend...  By the way, Happy New Year. Just noticed it has been... 

coffee notes (1) - Friday,  11/25/05  09:49 AM

Random notes while drinking coffee this morning. ...  An increasing number of my neighbors are hiring firms...  I need to be rather ruthless with myself over these...  I often have posted about SpaceX, the latest in a line...  FuturePundit has Objections to Multi-generational...  Have I mentioned reddit.com yet? I like it. A lot. ...  Suppose, as Gerard Vanderleun did, that you had to... 

Friday, August 12, 2005 08:49 PM (3) - Friday,  08/12/05  08:49 PM

The Ole filter makes another...  The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has made it off the...  DigitalCameraInfo has a great story about the 40,000 x...  SpaceX hits a rough patch: SpaceX Private Rocket...  Ever wonder what happens to all those white doves that...  Der Spigel: the World in the iPod. "The microchip...  Don't worry about America's competitiveness because of... 

Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:24 PM (1) - Thursday,  08/11/05  10:24 PM

Tuesday morning I was up early (0500), just leaving my...  I'm really glad they made it back. And I'll be even...  Slate: The White Stuff. How "vanilla" became...  Panda's Thumb considers the genetics of Harry Potter. ...  There is a serious point behind the humor; let's teach...  KMaps - Google maps on your Treo. My goodness! [ via...  Well we knew this was coming: Engadget reports on... 

Sunday, June 19, 2005 11:32 PM (2) - Sunday,  06/19/05  11:32 PM

Father's Day, 2005! Hope you all enjoyed it as much...  Michael Yon continues his excellent blogging from the...  The Economist reports Europe's identity crisis...  Tony Pierce tells some incredible stories, but check...  John Robb, after visiting Montana's big spaces: "Why...  Monks use hi-tech camera to read ancient texts. "The...  Interesting rumor on Marketwatch and NYTimes that... 

Sunday, June 12, 2005 11:42 PM (1) - Sunday,  06/12/05  11:42 PM

Want to know what's really happening in Iraq? Well...  Dave Winer, four years ago: "The notion that...  Mark Steyn with the definitive take on the Guantanamo...  Am I allowed to link Mark Stern twice? Here he is...  The Financial Times: Microsoft bans 'democracy' for...  Apropos, I've been reading Market Forces, a new book...  Gerald Vanderleun rants, in a positive review of The... 

Saturday, June 11, 2005 10:24 AM (1) - Saturday,  06/11/05  10:24 AM

Have you voted in my "splintered" feed survey? If...  Okay, so what's happening? Well, let's...  SpaceX has posted a new update: Fire on the Launch...  So, it's hurricane season again. Have you checked out...  The Economist frets about a post-dot-com bubble: An...  Here's an interesting discussion on GNXP: Is it really...  James Pinkerton on the really intelligent designers. ... 

wrapping up Apple on Intel (1) - Wednesday,  06/08/05  10:21 PM

Okay, I was wrong. Completely. So be...  The "good call" award goes to Gary Lang, who emailed...  BTW Apple's move is not about video or a WMC...  No doubt it isn't quite as simple as that, but Gary...  [ Later: my favorite take so far comes from Robert X....  Now, as someone working on porting Windows software to... 

Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:49 PM (1) - Sunday,  06/05/05  10:49 PM

Okay, back to the real world. I spent all weekend...  This is like a total embarrassment - Harvard's...  More crap on the political correctness front: School...  Two great rants from Victor David Hanson: Our strange...  The other day I mentioned Etienne Chouard, a French...  Powerline comments on the EU Constitution rejections:...  Randall Parker has a lot more On The Evolution Of... 

even more Apple on Intel (1) - Sunday,  06/05/05  10:39 PM

I know you're probably sick of the Apple on Intel...  Meanwhile the rumors are swirling, and I blow hot and...  Here's the bottom line: I have to believe the next big...  Okay, here’s my final guess. Apple is going to...  Whatever happens tomorrow it will have been a great...  [ Later: wrapping up Apple on Intel......  ... 

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 09:34 PM (1) - Wednesday,  06/01/05  09:34 PM

Found an interesting Dutch blog (in English): Zacht...  According to this article at Blogspotting, blogs...  CNN is celebrating its 25th anniversary! Amazing. ...  Fighting cancer with math. "By using a mathematical...  TechNews reports Microsoft will drop 'my' prefix for...  John Koetsier thinks I am "improbably named". So be...  MS did just announce new "open" XML feeds for... 

Friday, May 27, 2005 10:56 PM (1) - Friday,  05/27/05  10:56 PM

What's happening? Well, let's see, shall...  There's a great post on the Horse's Mouth about the...  So what do we make of Peter Lynds? According to...  Leaving no Titan-related stone unturned, I must note...  Again I have to note that Matt Webb consistently posts...  Eric Mack discusses how to get your kids interesting...  I think part of the problem is that development... 

Monday, May 23, 2005 08:54 PM (1) - Monday,  05/23/05  08:54 PM

According to geekinformed.com, by 2050 you will be...  This does of course have interesting consequences for...  Allen Orr gives a terrific overview of "Intelligent...  Chris Anderson wonders is the Long Tail full of crap? ...  Slate on the Search for 100 Million Missing Women. ...  YAUFGM - yet another use for Google maps: find the...  Microsoft is again fast-following; as Scoble reports... 

Monday, May 16, 2005 10:07 PM (1) - Monday,  05/16/05  10:07 PM

You've probably heard about the Newsweek fiasco by...  Cox and Forkum did their usual fine job of capturing...  GNXP: Thirty years of research on race differences in...  There are a lot of interesting bloggers out there, a...  Coming this November, Harry Potter and the Goblet of...  Here's some important news: Supreme Court allows...  Blogging.la notes Dodger broadcasters honored. Vin... 

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 09:27 PM (2) - Wednesday,  05/11/05  09:27 PM

I find this to be so cool; Inforedesign. Here we find...  Another Tyranny linker: Coding Horror (".Net and human...  Some great posts on this blog; e.g. The Start Menu...  In case you think the whole "Tyranny" think is a joke;...  Paul Graham: Hiring is obsolete. Man he is batting...  Junxion. "With the Junxion Box, people can connect...  Did you see this? CNet reports Toshiba announces 45GB... 

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:57 PM (1) - Tuesday,  05/10/05  11:57 PM

Watershed. A blog about water. "Whiskey is for...  About the drought in Zimbabwe: "One, if you are going...  Ottmar Liebert: Blue Gold. "If you think terrorism...  Gerald Vanderleun: Media Shocked, Shocked, by Water...  Remember when we drank tap water? And used drinking...  The other day I noted that Paul Graham bats like 1.000...  "We call it a 'hackathon' and we got inspiration from... 

Monday, May 09, 2005 09:41 PM (1) - Monday,  05/09/05  09:41 PM

...  Astronomers have found twelve new moons orbiting...  BTW, here's a wonderful picture of Titan taken by...  Did you hear about the conference for time travelers...  Here's a report from a 2005 attendee, who lists...  Paul Graham is one of those bloggers writers who seem...  I've been trying to see Tablet PCs with... 

Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:39 PM (2) - Thursday,  02/24/05  11:39 PM

Here's something I agree with 100%: Suppressing...  If you liked that one, check this out: Anti-racist...  Wired wonders Wither the Wall Street Journal? "The...  Oh, look, the AP now has RSS feeds! Cool. I'm going...  AlwaysOn reports the video rental business generates...  So, do you think Apple will buy Tivo? That would be...  This is a great story. Monowi, Nebraska, a one-person... 

Sunday, February 20, 2005 09:39 AM (1) - Sunday,  02/20/05  09:39 AM

One of the things I missed blogging about last month...  Here's one thing you might be able to do with one; a...  Robert X. Cringley thinks the Mini Mac is all about...  Apple. Here's to the crazy ones :) [ via Gerard...  I've been flying a bit lately, and I can totally...  The Seattle PI has a nice article about their new Rem...  If you're an IE user, check out this cool clock! Ah,... 

Monday, January 03, 2005 10:30 PM (2) - Monday,  01/03/05  10:30 PM

Now I'm in San Diego, and it's still raining. What! ...  David Hornik's New Year's Resolution is the same this...  Randall Parker reports Vitamin D could decrease...  I have to report - TivoToGo is live! This feature...  Here are some pictures from the Tropical Island dome;...  Okay, you knew this was going to happen; the Vonage...  Oh, look, another Vonage cordless phone. Only this... 

Sunday, January 02, 2005 09:38 PM (1) - Sunday,  01/02/05  09:38 PM

I don't know what to say about the Tsunami news; it is...  Michael Dorf explains Why It's Unconstitutional to...  Carl Zimmer discusses The Whale and the Antibody. ...  The New and Improved SETI, courtesy of space.com. ...  The Economist: Meritocracy in America. "Whatever...  Josh Newman finds a terrific analogy to explain his...  Check this out - the Quzzle. The Economist (!) says... 

Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:17 PM (2) - Thursday,  12/16/04  11:17 PM

Our wind tunnel test continues... wow. "People...  Blogging.la: Don't read if you're a Dodger fan. Well...  So this is finally going to happen: Stock Option...  Wired: Inside the Mac Revolution. Mac pioneer Andy...  Hey, this is interesting: Apple and Motorola announce...  Engadget: Samsung's 102-inch plasma TV. Okay, that's...  Blinkx unveils video search engine. This is probably... 

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:42 PM (1) - Wednesday,  12/15/04  10:42 PM

Okay, now it's all happening. After yesterday I was...  You can't even believe how windy it is here. ...  The NYTimes: A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old...  Dave Winer on Trusting Google. Or rather on not...  This is cool: Proud France Inaugurates World's Highest...  Here's a great parody of the Apple store. ...  Something you might find in the Apple store: an analog... 

Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:13 PM (1) - Thursday,  12/09/04  11:13 PM

Poking around the 'net at 56K, here's what we...  The Economist ponders America's One-Party State. "If...  Ethan Zuckerman is looking for a name for 4.8B people!...  LGF reports French Winemakers are Whining. "'We are a...  This is great news: The Commercial Spaceflight Bill...  AdAge has a terrific story Dissecting the wreckage of...  Oh my gosh - F.A.O.Schwarz is back! Too bad they're... 

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:32 PM (1) - Wednesday,  12/01/04  11:32 PM

It is still cold here, and now windy, too... brrr... ...  This is something to watch: WebMD reports Novel...  Netherlands hospital euthanizes babies. "A hospital...  The NYTimes: U.N. Report Urges Big Changes; Security...  Tim Oren notes an interesting milestone: "The canard...  Wired has an interesting interview with Burt Rutan,...  Slate has a puffy interview with Richard Dawkins: The... 

Sunday, November 14, 2004 09:33 PM (1) - Sunday,  11/14/04  09:33 PM

Holiday Season. Yippee! (Sorry, but with two weeks...  Powerline reports on The death of Mr. Bastard. The...  NYTimes: Gates vs. Jobs, The Rematch. "As was the...  Related: Engadget reports Patent for wireless iPod...  This is excellent; Ben Hammersley reports: "I’ve...  Oh, and Pedro Alcocer reports How to never miss an...  Slashdot discusses Microsoft's Upcoming Desktop Search... 

Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:04 PM (1) - Thursday,  11/11/04  10:04 PM

...  Martin Peretz, editor of New Republic, on John Kerry:...  Man, this is really bad; Slate reports Holland in...  This is a bit old - I might have even linked it before...  Wired reports Vonage dodges state regulations. "The...  The impressive 311 service in New York: Operators are...  I might have to get just ordered one of these: Keyspan... 

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:54 PM (1) - Wednesday,  11/10/04  11:54 PM

Today was a good day. For many reasons. Some of...  One of the ones I can tell you about; my daughter...  Citizen Smash posted a great tribute on the Marine...  IFILM is screening Theo van Gogh's Submission. Dutch...  razib posts a voice from the dykes: "The Dutch...  Glenn Reynolds with many links and discussion of the...  With the pending launch of Microsoft's search service,... 

Monday, November 01, 2004 10:25 PM (1) - Monday,  11/01/04  10:25 PM

Well, it seems I've finally caught up from my four...  So, I post about trying to lose some weight, and I...  The Desktop Search Land-Grab. Of Google and...  First we had the iPodDownload plug in, which enabled...  Dave wonders how Griffin's iTalk works? And then...  Hey, this is cool: Amazon's A9 toolbar now available...  Browser statistics from Critical Section, month of... 

Thursday, October 28, 2004 09:55 PM (1) - Thursday,  10/28/04  09:55 PM

Wired reports Tivo is removing features to protect...  Just came across this post from A. Beaujean on GNXP:...  The conclusion that beautiful people are more...  If all four assumptions are true, then the conclusion...  I'm not sure about this logic. I guess this might be...  Kind of related... Do you believe people are getting...  The Cassini spacecraft recently flew within 500 miles... 

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:39 PM (1) - Wednesday,  10/27/04  11:39 PM

A pet peeve: why does the whole world think it is...  Oh, yeah, congratulations Red Sox! I haven't watched...  Did you see it? Tonight there was a total eclipse of...  Here are some more eclipse pictures... [ via Cory...  I'll be the 10,000th blogger to link Scientists Find...  Reminds me of this thought-provoking post on...  [ Later: More at The Panda's Thumb, including a link... 

Monday, October 25, 2004 09:38 PM (1) - Monday,  10/25/04  09:38 PM

Randall Parker of FuturePundit observes that the Bush...  Today Google's market cap passed Yahoo's. I don't...  Wow, look at this gallery of Sea Dragons. "Sea...  Anita Sharp: Legends. "It was almost like a...  Cool blog: lactoso the intolerant. ...  Rustboy - "is a short film project which started out... 

Saturday, October 23, 2004 09:45 PM (2) - Saturday,  10/23/04  09:45 PM

Check out this phenomenal ad by Nike, for the Boston...  Want to get Mark Cuban's attention? He tells you...  John Battelle notes: Point-To TV. "You don't want to...  Citizen Smash on Teresa Heinz Kerry:...  Which reminds me; I used to race sailboats, and there...  Check out these amazing photos from the Arctic Refuge...  One of the cool things I did this summer was to see... 

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:49 PM (1) - Wednesday,  10/20/04  10:49 PM

Congratulations to the Red Sox! Who would have...  This is pretty cool; Peter Rojas of Engadget...  Q: What’s your vision for Internet...  I really want to call your attention to John Gruber's...  Oh, and please see Bryan Cantrill’s interesting take...  Speaking of "the web as development environment",...  Of course, the other benefit of X1 is that they aren't... 

Monday, June 14, 2004 11:43 PM (1) - Monday,  06/14/04  11:43 PM

...  If you're an L.A. driver, check out this great...  I have a little Pioneer GPS map in my car - I've often...  Cult of Mac reports on cool zoetrope ads being used in...  Congratulations to Dave Winer for two years of...  Time Magazine: Meet Joe Blog. I always think of Dave...  This is interesting, AlwaysOn reports Starz has... 

Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:01 PM (3) - Saturday,  06/12/04  11:01 PM

So this is first attempt at catching up since...  So "Dutch" has died. I can't add much to the mounds...  I am struck by two things among the remembrances;...  Other Serious...  Space and...  Life and...  Computers and... 

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 01:06 AM (1) - Wednesday,  05/12/04  01:06 AM

This is so cool - Apple has the story of a nine-year...  Well, the Lakers showed up again last night,...  In other L.A. sports news, the Dodgers won - again -...  Global IQ: 1950-2050. Animated extrapolation from IQ...  Russia's new space agency chief is an optimist: he...  African frogs threaten San Francisco. (Looks like an...  Another looks-like-Onion-but-it's-real headline: The... 

Monday, May 10, 2004 11:07 PM (1) - Monday,  05/10/04  11:07 PM

Wired: Kid Robot and the World of Tomorrow. "Kerry...  And 2004 is definitely the year of the video...  Here's a worthwhile post by Rebecca Ryan: The Front...  Last night at 2:00AM there was a whole lot of shakin'...  Knowledge@Wharton wonders Does Venture Philanthrophy...  David Burbridge considers Evolutionarily Stable...  Interestingly, the concepts of ESS are not specific to... 

Sunday, April 18, 2004 06:41 PM (1) - Sunday,  04/18/04  06:41 PM

Weekend...  I want to echo Andrew Grumet and John Palfrey in...  Time reports: See me, blog me, about video producer...  Scientific American carries an interesting study about...  Opportunity continues to "rock": UPI analyses the...  Peter Rojas explains how to read RSS feeds on your...  Check out the Smoky Mountain Journal - just one great... 

catching up (2) - Saturday,  03/20/04  10:57 AM

If you haven't posted for a while - for a long while -...  I don't know about "big"; I was just really busy and...  In order of...  The Mars...  Boy was that something, watching "NASA TV" when...  The War on...  Eight weeks. Wow, a lot has happened, in Iraq, in...