Taking The Show On The Road Again
It’s been about six months since I’ve given a talk in front of a technology group, and well over a year since I spoke to a gathering larger than the few dozen people who enduring my blah-blah about WordPress query construction at WordCamps this summer or fall. But I got the creative juices flowing again [...]
Yahoo Is Still Not Delicious
Yahoo’s financial mess has led it to kill the bookmark sharing site Del.icio.us. And reactions range from “Oh noes, make it open source so the Internet can take care of it” to “It’s like burning a library”. I should say “all of the bad reactions.” Delicious is dying because it’s not generating revenue for Yahoo, [...]
Cloud Computing and P=NP
A sports betting friend once advised me to “never take the under.” It’s good, practical thinking – when you play the under (betting that fewer goals, points, or touchdowns will be scored than the Vegas line indicates) you’re betting on something not to happen. I’m a big believer in never betting against potential. Which is [...]
WordCamp NYC Skyline
I’m speaking, and Erik and I are sponsors through Amphibimen Comics (another proud WordPress powered site). The deal this year was you got to pick a building, and were charged a dollar a foot for the building’s height. No more gold, silver, bronze, platinum, diamond, ruby, yttrium, molybdenum, or manganese level sponsorships here. Our choice [...]
Speaking at WordCamp NYC Next Weekend
Coming up next weekend: Version 3 of “Parsing Strange,” my WordCamp talk about the mechanisms WordPress uses to turn a URL into SQL and therefore a collection of posts to display. I’m confirmed as one of the speakers at WordCamp NYC 2010, and I have the added pleasure of being a small-scale sponsor of the [...]
Why You Care if P=NP
I had started a long thought on one of the toughest open problems in computing and realized I had stepped in too many scientific puddles along the way. So here is a long thought in two parts; the first is for everyone (including non-math, non-computer science people) because I believe this is the kind of [...]
Really Simple Sharing Experiment
Early results are in from my decision to stop using Facebook Notes. Due to a variety of failures on Facebook’s end, I decided to announce new blog entries as wall posts on my own and the Snowman On Fire Facebook pages. I’m calling the decision to switch a huge win. Facebook is now the largest [...]
More on Facebook RSS Slurpage
After spending a little bit of time connecting varous blogs back to Facebook via RSS Graffiti, I found that no notes were being imported. Even tried post-dating an entry to see if it would be picked up, but no bits moved. This is where RSS Graffiti shines as much as Facebook’s own RSS parser removes [...]
Facebook Notes: So Long, and Good Riddance
I’ve been using the Facebook “Notes” application for about a year and a half to import notes from my various blogs into my Facebook profile and pages. As Facebook has grown in popularity, I’ve found more people reading my ramblings through that channel than those who end up clicking through a Google search or (gasp) [...]
Joining the Microfinance Information Exchange Board
I have joined the board of the Microfinance Information Exchange as an observer, and hopefully with the right blend of participation, networking and tenure I’ll become a full board member over time. MIX plays the role of aggregator and provides financial transparency in the world of microfinance – connecting all of the parts of the [...]