Entries from June 2007

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Interesting post on life at Google vs Microsoft from a individual contributor perspective

Life at Google – The Microsoftie Perspective « Just Say “No” To Google The comments are freaky. MS folks piling on this person which seems kind of stupid, because this reads like a love letter to life at Microsoft if I ever read one. I’d like to see this person follow up with a second [...]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

wow, I crashed the tivo!

So our tivo decided to stop recognizing our wireless network AGAIN, so I did the stuff I’ve done before to fix it up, unplug the wireless adapter, reboot the tivo, restart the network, change the wireless setting, then finally voila, it connected and then rebooted TWICE! I’m realizing that the plus side to computer as [...]

Monday, June 25th, 2007

hey, my band is playing tomorrow night in Seattle

A rare treat, ’cause we are old now and don’t play out as much as we used to. Transpacific returns live! June 26, 2007! Playing with Moggs (from San Francisco), Colony of Watts and 1-2 12. At the Sunset in Ballard (5433 Ballard Ave NW) starting at 9pm. transPacific web page transPacific mySpace page (you [...]

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

two more opinions on mega-houses destroying neighborhoods

This one personal, about Magnolia The invasion of Magnolia by the land snatchers was not a “shock and awe” campaign. Initially, it was gradual — a house demolished here, another there, to be replaced by three- and four-story McMansions. The neighborhood was changing, as all neighborhoods will over time. I didn’t like it, but I [...]

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Steve, this is what happens when you give a lame keynote

Is Google Going To Buy Apple? | dmiessler.com With no good rumours to go on, no new hardware, no new iLife, the Apple rumour mill goes into overdrive. I think this a fairly unlikely thing. Google needs a hardware and consumer appliance manufacturer like Apple needs to get into the catering business. The Google business [...]

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

neato mashup site showing neighborhood growth over time

Trulia hindsight is a neat little mashup between maps and building data, it animates over time showing when houses were built over the last hundred years. (it turns out that most of Capital Hill here in Seattle was filled in by 1930, for example).

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Sarcastic Gamer’s Microsoft Surface Parody

ok, you’ve probably seen it already, but this is pretty funny.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

John Battelle reaches his Google saturation point

John Battelles Searchblog: Just Asking… Ive found myself more and more wary of doing things that Id like to do with Google applications simply out of some primal, lizard brain fear of giving too much control of my data to one source. Its not that I dont trust Google, its not that I dont like [...]

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Lets put an end to the 3000 sq ft house on the 4000 sq ft lot

Megahomes multiplying, but how big is too big? In an area with little land to build new houses, residents are fighting the megahome — McMansions that balloon to the edges of their properties, three-story giants that block views from quaint craftsman bungalows. Seattle is considering new laws to limit the size of houses replacing those [...]

Friday, June 15th, 2007

The difference between being an Apple developer and a Microsoft developer

At the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference Check out this new technology! It will be shipping next year, and it is super awesome! It is the way we are going and we’re putting a huge amount of effort behind it! It sounds neat, you drop your old silly code and jump on the bandwagon figuring you’ll [...]