It strikes me as odd that in a city as wholly dependent on bikes to commute to and from work, there’s so little innovation in the bike repair space.…Read more

I wasn’t aware of geonames.com until just now when I read this blog post from Greenpeace IT. It’s looking very neat, and I think we’ll want to buil…Read more

Riffing a bit more on Derek Powazek and his 8020 Publishing, what’s interesting is that while he, Threadless, OpenDemocracy, Boxes and Arrows, and o…Read more

Just a quick note to say that I do not recommend chopping off the tip of a finger. Not that I did, but I got eerily close on Wednesday night when I …Read more

There’s a webcast up of Derek Powazek’s talk about community-first publishing at the Knock Knock conference. It’s definitely worth viewing, it’s a v…Read more

Everyone’s doing it, and so are we: The Boxes and Arrows Job Board is live! The staff frequently gets email from people asking if they can help fil…Read more

My server got hacked once again. I’m not sure what I’ve done to attract this kind of unwanted attention – I’m doing all the obvious things like keep…Read more

Most sites have a “Remember me” checkbox of some sort, which will store a permanent cookie, rather than a session cookie, so you don’t have to login…Read more

I just realized that my production servers were running the Ruby version of the MySQL driver, to the tune of a performance penalty of 10-15%, accord…Read more