links for 2007-12-03
Personal Inventory: the erotic appeal of the Lands’ End catalog – Nerve.com “The Lands’ End fall catalog is porn for the heartsick man.” – safe for work, BTW.
Bob Plankers
links for 2007-12-01
The Brick Testament Bible stories told with Legos… I have a lot of respect for the time it took to do all of that work. NPR : Cable Dispute Blocks Big Game from Football Fans And thanks to the lack of competition the NFL Network brings the commentary was crap. Bryant Gumbel can’t even keep track of which team has the ball. 02138 § Poking Facebook Is Facebook an original idea or is it stolen from others? I suspect the answer is half way between the two. How to make a zombie cockroach : Nature News
links for 2007-11-29
YouTube – Jim Ray IPF M50 WR My coworker holds a world record in the bench press. Nice job Jim! New Terrain Layer in Google Maps Can’t wait until this makes it to my iPhone. TuneCore: 34 Stars Hey, go here, get 34 free songs from iTunes. Some good stuff, including the increasingly popular (and longtime favorite of mine) The Weepies. Fall Deer Density Map – WDNR Ahh yes, I didn’t shoot anything because of the low deer density. That’s it. Uh huh.
Traveling with an iPhone? Keep the firmware on your laptop.
When I travel for more than a couple of days I sync my iPhone with my laptop. That way I have a backup copy of my data (photos and notes, mainly) as well as a way to freshen the music and movies a bit. On my last trip I decided to sync my iPhone in the two hour layover I had in Denver. I had my laptop on one leg and my phone on the other. Once I’d started the transfer my phone promptly fell off my lap and pulled the USB cable out. I plugged it back in to continue but the damage was done. iTunes claimed my phone was mated to another iTunes library, and showed all the …
links for 2007-11-28
Shocking Development: Taser Flying Saucer Drone on the Way “an unmanned ‘mini flying saucer’ that will be able to zap electric hell from above onto rioting crowds, malcontents and evildoers.” Sounds like a sysadmin tool to me. 🙂 Dana Milbank – Even Julia Roberts Didn’t Love Him Like That – washingtonpost.com I am a huge fan of Alice Peacock, and to see she played Congress… heh. Flooding estimates are off by 5 feet – Breaking News Updates New Orleans – Times-Picayune – NOLA.com Typical New Orleans… someday someone competent will take over down there, someone who knows a plus from a minus. NOT.
Features I Wish My iPhone Had
I love my iPhone. I really do. I just wish it had a few more features, like: 1. A “jog dial” like the old iPods. Christopher Fahey sums this up nicely at graphpaper.com. Not that this is a democracy in any way, but consider this another vote. 2. The ability to stream to an Airport Express. I have an Airport Express connected to my stereo. It’d be cool if I could stream to it wirelessly. Cables are so 1833. 3. The same iPod forward/pause/back controls in any orientation. When I walk I often carry my iPhone horizontally in my hand (it switches to Cover Flow mode). I hate having to hold it vertically while I’m walking just to skip a …
links for 2007-11-27
The Blogger’s Guide to SEO – by Aaron & Giovanna Wall : SEO Book.com The Yogi Berra School of Persuasive Writing | Copyblogger I love Yogi Berra quotes, and Copyblogger turns them into good lessons about writing. Getting Great Battery Life “Modern Li-ion batteries love to be charged often. They don’t like being fully discharged. This is completely opposite from older style batteries.” – I’m going to have to change my ways. How to demo software – Joel on Software Good advice on demoing software, including room setup (the note about the height of the ceiling is important). Make the business case for storage virtualization It is hard to justify storage virtualization when the prices for it are so high, …
Ahhh, Vacation
I hope everybody had a wonderful week last week, holidays or not. I was off doing my yearly tramping around in the Wisconsin woods looking for deer[0]. And eating. It seems like I spent Wednesday through Sunday eating. Ugh. The nice thing about sitting in the woods waiting for animals to show up is a lot of time to think. Once I’m through with the 1000 messages in my INBOX and voice mail[1] I have a whole bunch of new stuff to write about. It is sort of strange to think about computers when you’re in the middle of a national forest, but nature has long been a muse for artists, philosophers, and soldiers. Why can’t it do the same …
Staff Time Isn't Free
I just submitted a quote to a client for some work they want done. They didn’t like the numbers, though. Too high. Now they’re talking about having someone in-house do the work “because it’s free.” Staff time isn’t free. It just might look free, depending on where you sit. If a different budget pays the salaries it’s easy to forget that staff have an hourly cost just like a consultant. Those costs are covered already, though, so it isn’t an additional expense, and therefore “free.” I might be able to complete something in two hours where in-house staff would take twenty, but I’m an additional expense. *sigh*
links for 2007-11-16
Wii Guitar Hero III Outputting Mono Sound | Game | Life from Wired.com Sounds like someone needs a new test in their test suite.