Archive for February, 2006
I live in the ‘hood. I love it. Affordable housing, good bus service, and lots of useful businesses.
Some of the businesses aren’t just useful, they’re incredibly creative. One that I’ve wanted to highlight for a long time is Triple Cheap Junk Hauling and Barbershop. Yes, a combination junk hauling service and barbarshop. Now, you might […]
Tomorrow it’ll be exactly two weeks until I leave for the great city of Austin and SXSW. As I’m taking in the whole thing (I actually went for the Platinum Pass this time) I’ll be there a full 11 days….
The Café Scientifique idea started in England a few years ago, based on the French Café Philosophique. In the Café Scientifique, people (often science buffs) come together in a friendly pub or coffee shop after work and hear an informal introduction to an interesting current scientific topic, led by an expert.
An article […]
(and I wasn’t even there)… One of the tech world’s most influential journalists, Michael Arrington, hosted a party at his house in Silicon Valley last night, and here are some things I learned from it:…
Being a Mac user, I’ve always had a problem with Firefox. I’ve thought long and hard about tasteful analogies for my relationship with it, but I keep coming back to a somewhat shallow one: Firefox is like the girl in school who you knew you should probably date because she’s intelligent, multilingual, and funny, but she just wasn’t very attractive to you. Safari, on the other hand, has been the opposite: Hot as hell and lives right down the street, but offers little more than instant gratification of primal needs…
Bear with me as I try to sort something out here, and please, if you’d like to join in the discussion after, don’t hesitate. This week I’ve seen all sorts of posts, news items, manifestos, etc. putting concrete definitions to…
After weeks, months, years of rain… we finally see the sun!!
Closed Published February 10th, 2006 on Rambling with BluedogIn fact, my teammate David and I had lunch outside. Yes, it almost felt like summer (sorta). It was a comfortable 52 degrees!
METRO service hours a critical issue
Closed Published February 9th, 2006 on The Urban EnvironmentalistSo once again my esteemed employer has fired up the hiring machine. Of particular note is my position of Services Engineer. What is a Services Engineer, you ask? Well, the short answer is a software developer with people skills. The long answer is that we interact with our corporate clients to […]