In a single day, we’ve managed to fly to New York, along with our 1-year-old daughter, had an afternoon meeting with Martin Niesenholtz, the head of New York Times Digital, with my partner Christina W…
The Rails-Commit mailing list has been down since August 19, and though it was a nice relief from the ADHD of the core team for a while, it is really useful to follow what’s being committed, especiall…
I’m a big fan of companies that tackle hiring differently, like the print-on-demand company Lulu with The Lulu Quiz.
Note in particular the Renaissance skill set and the living abroad/multilingual pa…
I’ve had a problem for a while with the server that runs both this site and Boxes and Arrows where it would all of a sudden just race into an out-of-memory situation, and the so-called oom-killer woul…
I’m at a loss here. The image on the right shows fine on my Mac, and it shows fine in FireFox on my Windows XP PC, but on IE6, it shows as a broken image.
Here’s what identify has to say about it:
U…
Speaking of the bubble in the housing market, Jason Kottke has this link for us from the New York Times, graphing the price of American houses since 1890 adjusted for inflation.
Insane, is all I hav…
Alexender Kjerulf is a friend who’s been blogging for a few years, plateaued roughly around the same amount of traffic I have. That is, until recently, when he finally cracked the nut of growing his a…
It seems somebody took down the wiki page I put up at caboose, so let’s try this again.
If you’re going to RailsConf Europe 2006, add your dates, hotel, and contact info to my new wiki page.
I still…
It’s great to hear a sane voice in the intellectual property debate. Inc. Magazine has an article titled Relax. Let Your Guard Down, where they make the point that a company’s edge doesn’t hinge on a …
An update 83 days after my first stake in the ground on the housing inventory. Back then, 40,875 units were on the market. Today, that number is 47,021. That is 6,146 more units for sale, or 74 additi…
