November 2011
2 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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WatchSprig Health Promotes Portland Providers
Sprig Health is getting into the movies, we’re promoting a few Providers and Women’s Wellness Services using videos. Check out Kimberley Brandt from Pearl Health Center. You can get 30% off if you book an appointment using this discount code, Sprig66 !
October 2011
1 post
“Street protesters’ demands work best when they’re simple enough to fit in a...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · Occupying Wall Street
I’m liking Tim Bray again.
February 2011
1 post
Kickstarter - Alien Boy: the Death and Life of... →
Mary Ann and I are helping our friend Brian with his next project.
January 2011
1 post
SmokePing Latency Page for My House →
Daddy, the internet is slow
June 2010
1 post
December 2009
1 post
May 2009
2 posts
“The word “service” certainly gets some exercise. ITIL v3 says “A service is a...”
– Never mind what ITIL says. What is a service? | The IT Skeptic
April 2009
2 posts
WatchI’m in the movies!
Commuting by bike in Portland really is spectacular, especially in inner Southeast.
“Junior Joe Prettyman Stays On Winning Track In Senior Men’s Cat. 4 Field”
– Nice write up on Joe’s recent streak at Oregon Cycling Action.
March 2009
1 post
February 2009
1 post
Branding Nationalization
If banks are so scared of nationalization, why do they work so hard to maintain a branding that implies some type of national support?
Bank of America
1st National Bank
The National Bank
USBank
UBS Union Bank of Switzerland
City National Bank
January 2009
2 posts
WebPAC: Willkommen / Welcome →
As a “project” for an old friend, I went digging to see if I could find any info on the web / Public Access Catalog gateway I designed and built back in my Notis/ALS days.
Came across this guy still up and running.
Found some release notes as well!
December 2008
5 posts
“Look in the mirror: G.M. is us.
That’s why we don’t just need a bailout. We need...”
– Thomas Friedman - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com
WatchWonderful talk from Benjamin Zander - link from http://blog.leetsoft.com/.
Web Sequence Diagrams →
I just used “Web Sequence Diagrams” to publish a business process in our team wiki in about 15 minutes. What a sweet tool. I’m wondering if I can tumbl one?
Me->Tumblr: post diagram
Tumblr-->World: show them
The answer to that would be “yes”.
“Expansion is the normal state of the economy;”
– The NBER’s Recession Dating Procedure
I’ve been reading a number of financial blogs and this came up today in a couple of them.
How can “expansion” be the normal state of anything? Well except for some theories of the universe.
If financial thinking and planning is based on...
Mocks Aren't Stubs →
I’m looking to distill this article down to something I can share with my development team at The Regence Group. Early in my current project, I worked with a really smart character from Seattle, James Cooper. We utilized EasyMock for a number of our tests.
I’m looking to pick this back up again with the team.
November 2008
1 post
Thankful for an Open Weekend
It feels like it’s been about a year of completely full weekends. Travel, work, bike racing, baseball, etc. …
Fortunately, our travel plans for Thanksgiving gives me a full weekend with absolutely nothing planned.
You know what I’ve done so far? Sat around making a list of thinks the house needs. Butter, cat litter, dog and cat food purchased, leaves raked, lawn mowed,...
October 2008
5 posts
“….But then something weird happens: He acknowledges the...”
– McCain Denounces Pitchfork-Wavers - Swampland - TIME
Right on!
“The crisis isn’t the only scary thing going on. Something very ugly is taking...”
– Not about the financial crisis - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
I feel the uncertainty in the marketplace is also driven by the uncertainty in the political arena as well.
“Silicon Valley is a house with no exits right now.”
– breakingviews | Facebook
I hope this doesn’t bode too poorly for my old friends at Socialtext.
September 2008
7 posts
My Favorite Things
This past week, I got to marry together a few of my favorite things at work.
I automated some various analysis tasks that I was doing somewhat irregularly and published the results to our groups wiki.
The first effort was an attempt to add a bit of transparency to our current release/development/testing process, making it a bit clearer as to what versions are getting deployed to what test...
Hood River Double Cross photo slideshow | pdxcross →
There’s a great picture of Walker in this excellent slideshow. He got himself a bit tangled up with another rider in the run up.
On Palin's "experience" (Lessig Blog) →
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Media & McCain/Palin
It seems that now, the media isn’t even bothering with sound bites from McCain and Palin and is only playing audience reactions and quotes from the exact same ones from their acceptance speeches.
The only “news” around the McCain / Palin campaign is the reporting on deceptive campaign ads and rumors they seem to keep producing.
Is it just me or has McCain “given...
November 2007
1 post
Learning the Leopard
I’ve updated my laptop to 10.5. Pretty okay so far. I seem to be having problems with my mail rules firing correctly. Way too many things are sticking in my Inbox that used to get filed away.