July 2008
23 posts
WatchScrum et al. talk by Ken Schwaber. I really like Ken’s little videos on Scrum practices. I haven’t watched this one but I will. Even though we’re already doing Scrum, you can always learn something by going back over well-done introductory material or tutorials.
You got that right.
52books:
paperbackgirl:
Wasserman: Right. And do you remember what it was about the physical contact with books which seemed to be so exciting for you?
Bradbury: A lot of it is the smell of books. There are—a lot of those bookstores were used bookstores. Some were high-quality used books and new publications, but the other bookstores were … a lot of used books, and there’s thousands of them in...
My new iPhone
In a word, wow. In two words, holy crap.
This thing is awesome. Every time I pick it up, I find something new to like. The other day I told Kim it was the culmination of all time wasting technologies throughout history. It’s the ne plus ultra of gadgety gadgets. I’ve used various handhelds but the nearest I ever got to this was the old Handspring Visor with the cell-phone addon....
Baby’s First Internet →
This satire (specifically the last slide) has actually crystalized something I’ve thinking about my blogging activity. I’m going to focus on programming and technology here until I decide differently. Since nobody really reads this blog accept my family, I’m probably alienating my audience but I think I’ll feel better about it. I want to start saying more about learning...
Making sucking-up fun
My work was recently named the 14th best small company to work for in the US. Yay us! As a way of recognition and sucking up, our director made some nice plaques for us to sign and give to our senior management. Since I can’t leave well enough alone and just be a good employee and sign, I made different little jokes on each one.
#13 next year!
We’re coming for you Triage Consulting!...
Robert J. Samuelson - A Depression? Hardly →
The specter of depression stalks America. You hear the word repeatedly. Are we in a depression? If not, are we headed for one? The answer to the first question is no; the answer to the second is “almost certainly not.” The use of “depression” to describe the economy is a case of rhetorical overkill that speaks volumes about today’s widespread pessimism and anxiety. A...
Raganwald: A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas →
Great post as always, with a really disappointing finish. I’ll miss this guy, and blog.
The Painter of Battles
This is the new book by Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of my favorite authors. I first discovered him a long time ago during a period where I would take random books from the library. I ended up discovering a few of my favorite books that way, including The Club Dumas by Perez-Reverte. His other books have mostly been intelligent thrillers. This one is much more subdued. There are no real puzzles or...
Pablo Picasso - Bull →
Pablo Picasso created ‘Bull’ around the Christmas of 1945. ‘Bull’ is a suite of eleven lithographs that have become a master class in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract. In this series of images, all pulled from a single stone, he visually dissects the image of a bull to discover its essential presence through a progressive analysis of its form....
Video Demonstration: DIY Invisible Floating... →
I’ve been looking for a good explanation of doing this. I’ve already got the parts, so invisible shelves here I come!
sernaferna: Beautiful Code: False Optimizations →
From the post: One of the first concepts that jumped out at me from Beautiful Code concerned false optimizations—that is, something added to the code which should have been an optimization, but as it turns out, actually causes the code to run slower.
This is a great post. The first example shows that while doing a search, it ended up being faster just to let the search run through all the items...
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium: Where the Linear... →
From the post: Freeman Dyson has just written one of the best analysis of the conundrum of global warming I’ve seen — disguised as a book review in the New York Review of Books. Using his unique ability to tease out new perspectives by estimating the physics of a phenomenon, his “review” offers three novel perspectives.
The Dark Knight
I went to see The Dark Knight twice on Friday. Once at work, for a “team building exercise” with my friends, then again with Kim. Seeing it twice was plain great. The second time I got to pay attention to little hints and foreshadowing.
Basically, if you’re an action or crime movie fan, you’ll love Dark Knight. It’s still a comic book movie so it’s not exactly...
“Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available.”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson’s_law
Book: Saturn's Children by Charlie Stross
I’m a fan of Charlie Stross, I am. I wrote a glowing review of Singularity Sky for Slashdot that got me a lot of comments and crashed his server. But the last 2 books of his that I read (this and Glasshouse) were downright dissapointing. I liked Accelerando mostly but even it had more than it’s share of down points. I haven’t read Halting State yet but it’s on my shelf.
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja →
One of the best titles and character images I’ve ever seen.
“Few people make a successful career of contemplating death and suicide; fewer...”
– Remembering Thomas M. Disch | Salon Books
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“… the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books...”
– Gabriel Zaid : So Many Books
