Playing with a proximity beacon
Nine-dollar devices send URLs to your phone over Bluetooth.
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April 23, 2016
November 19, 2010
What REST is really about
According to the primary source document.
October 26, 2009
Up and running with Mercurial
Quick and easy.
April 14, 2009
Expand those shortened URLs before archiving twitter messages
What if a shortening service goes down?
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March 25, 2009
My own little Twitter client
No AJAX, Flash, or AIR; just HTML, but arranged the way I want it.
January 19, 2009
Our long national nightmare is over
According to a highly specialized hardware device.
November 24, 2008
A video from a still camera
With various strange noises and images.
February 5, 2008
Unsung Super Bowl hero
December 28, 2007
Apple marketing slogans
Warm! Fuzzy!
October 6, 2007
How college students really use Facebook
"Online community theater".
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September 12, 2007
Command prompt as an IM session with my computer?
Cryptic abbreviations and scrolling text: not so old-fashioned after all.
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June 22, 2007
Women in computing: what about the cultural variable?
Why do I see more women programmers among Eastern Europeans?
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May 17, 2007
Keyboards for breakfast
But would you want to pour syrup on it?
April 18, 2007
Tech
UVA's country cousin.
March 19, 2007
Instant tech marketing copy
Monetize scalable supply-chains! Integrate granular users! Reintermediate 24/7 interfaces!
March 10, 2007
Bifocals
Getting accustomed to a new perspective.
March 1, 2007
One namespace to rule them all
Says who? A spam generation program.
October 4, 2006
All the personal data you want
Except that it's all fake.
August 7, 2006
Wikipedia: more useful than good
There's so much wrong with it... and I use it all the time.
July 12, 2006
Nice parodies of "Mac hipper than PC" ads
The one in the T-shirt and hoodie is the cool one, not the one in the suit, right?
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July 6, 2006
Opening Pandora's (music) box
Free online music and algorithmic suggestions.
June 14, 2006
Creating an affiliate website
For fun and very little profit.
May 24, 2006
Me as 80s New York lead guitarist
A Christmas present from my brother: a CD of studio visits by a band I was in.
May 8, 2006
My new job
Joining Innodata Isogen.
April 11, 2006
Joining the Ruby on Rails chorus
I tasted the Kool-Aid, and I liked it.
February 17, 2006
Linking in
The "social networking" site turns out to be useful and practically fun.
February 12, 2006
I'm available
Moving on from LexisNexis.