Category: Random Thoughts
Ever since I discovered that I could actually cut out grapefruit wedges (I lived for some 25 years before I discovered this fact!), I’ve been addicted to the tangy, juicy globes of goodness. Half the fun is playing with sharp...
Well, at least for me (and I suspect many others). I caught Pete Cashmore’s analysis: There are arguably better video sites than YouTube and better photo hosts than Photobucket, but network effects tend to trump technical prowess in the social...
Being a consultant means traveling from time to time (or all the time). Since May, I’ve been traveling to Boston on a weekly basis and I’ve had a variety of cars. Oddly enough, my favorite car has been a Hyundai;...
A random assortment of random thoughts (and rants!) from the trenches… You Know You’re In Trouble When… You have to convene three people to figure out how to create an instance of one of the core objects in your framework. ...
As I was watching Diary of the Dead last night (I don’t know why…I just have this thing for zombie movies), about half ways through the movie, it suddenly dawned upon me that none of the characters had uttered the...
Heroin in Afghanistan A cool story on how some enterprising individuals are working to battle the heroin trade originating in Afghanistan: A former homeless drug abuser from Swindon is the unlikely champion of an initiative that aims to fight Afghanistan’s...
I’ve been working with Python for the last few weeks on a pet project that I have going on. I’ve been using PyDev with Eclipse and using Django as the application framework for this web app. Part of it is...
Once in a while, I toss my resume out there on Dice to see what the market’s like and what opportunities are out there; you never know, right? It always amazes me how terrible the process is and how it’s...