Entries from May 2008

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Is this a good or bad thing?

I was washing my hands just now and something struck me. How does a submarine achieve negative buoyancy by flooding tanks with water when it is still filled with oxygen? If this had struck me 20 years ago, I would have probably tried to reason it out. Given how little I know about submarines, I [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

What I want from data portability

I want to rate my books, music and DVDs once on netflix, Amazon, Facebook visual bookshelf, iTunes and I want the data shared across all of them. However, I want complete control over how each of them uses every bit of that data and I want to approve who gets to see it, even among [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

speaking of resumes

I talk about resumes a lot. That is because I see many of them. A zillion years ago, when I first had to write a resume, all I had was a crummy pamphlet from the career center that was completely unhelpful. So, I like to help out when I can so that I don’t have [...]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Puget Sound Tugboat Race