Idling User

Thom Hogan prepared a list of lenses that Nikon should be producing. I like his choices. I think my top picks his list would be: […]

I purchased a Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic 45 yesterday - a large format “Press” camera w/ ground-glass view back. The purchase was somewhat spontaneous - I went with Adam to check out the remaining equipment of a friend of a friend’s deceased relative, or something like that. I paid a reasonable price consider that […]

It is apparent that significant cultural changes are occurring at Microsoft from many perspectives.

Scoble may not be brainwashed. Scoble recognizes that he’s getting every little bit of money squeezed out of him by Microsoft in their attempts to cut costs. He rationalizes the changes by suggesting that the other benefits still far outweigh […]

Another cool use of RSS from Ben Hammersley: FedEx package tracking. Rockin’. (Via Adam)

One reason why testing environments are important and why programmers shouldn’t be given access to production environments:

“… This is very bad indeed. 2500 linux servers had to be rebooted. I owe a lot of beers.”

(From "Journal of Matts")

Ouch! I think many of us have made similar mistakes… hopefully only once.

Bloglines got an overhaul for its birthday! So far, I like the new look and feel. The new functionality isn’t huge - mostly small additions to and rearrangements of existing functionaltiy. The best part is the things that were just moved around/changed make a LOT more sense now.

If you’re not using Bloglines […]

Ben Hammersley’s XHTML Validator to RSS (via SimpleBits) is exactly the kind of tools I expect to see a lot more of in the RSS world. I got excited about the observer pattern when I first started using it in pre-1.0 Java. RSS brings this type of publish-subscribe/observable-observer/listener functionality to human information/data interactions. […]

Nice! These tweaks for FireFox make a significant difference in page load times. They also work in Mozilla - though you won’t necessarily find all the same settings there. It makes me curious what else is in there worth tweaking beyond the little things I change already - such as changing the ui.key.accelKey […]

We bought a modern acrylic vase (see pic below) while we were in Paris a few years ago in a little shop that I only remembered as “Bo”. In trying to track the store down online after we returned home, I discovered Bo Concept who has since expanded into the U.S. including a location […]

I like the sounds of this "Naked DSL" quite a bit. Basically, it cuts the phone company out of the loop making your service dependent solely on the ISP itself. Currently I have no reliance on a traditional phone company for my phone or internet service and I’d like to keep it that […]