Our team moved over to Williams Street today. I have to say, it is a very different, and much cooler environment than the two cube farms I lived in before this. I am so happy.
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March 20, 2006
March 10, 2006
From Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Consensus Web Filters. In addition to an excellent write up on the emergence of this category of Web site, it includes a pretty comprehensive list of sites that fit into this category. One great filter, which I have sort of become addicted to, but which is not mentioned in his piece, is TailRank. TailRank has gone from being a site I was not familiar with to one of my ten most visited sites in less than a month.
For me, the purpose of these sites is not the "surf by proxy" filtering that most people seem to use them for. I like the daily scour for information that I currently pursue. These sites give me ancillary links and perspective from the community that surfing alone could never get me. Considering how smart this community seems to be in most cases, it would be foolish of me not to ingest the community's perspectives and additional datapoints that folks provide.
March 2, 2006
Ma.gnolia extends social bookmarking to groups and contacts, with basic social network functionality. I like it. Some of the design choices, like the way they chose to display groups in group listing pages, annoyed me a little. Having said that, I’m all over this, imported my delicious bookmarks, and am going to rip it up over there for a few days and see how it fits. Oh yeah, and ajax stuff and blah blah blah.
February 14, 2006
“We have upgraded your MacBook Pro from a 1.83GHz processor to a 2.0GHz processor at no additional cost!” Thanks Apple!!
February 8, 2006
Slanket. Arriving at the Occhialini Atlanta base of operations in 10 days to 3 weeks.
January 13, 2006
Fox to Release High-Def Movie DVDs 60 Days after Theater Release. It seems like, over time, the movie industry is getting around to dealing with the issues that I raised in this post two years ago. Good for them.
January 4, 2006
Extra Tasty is a social network enabled drink recipe site. I like the feature where you can enter the items you have in your bar, and it shows you the drinks you can make from them. Another great idea from our friends at skinnyCorp.
Blizzard released patch 1.9 for World of Warcraft yesterday. Something Awful has great, and funny patch notes commentary. My guild went into ZG, one of the mid-level endgame instances, last night, and discovered that the patch introduced some new bugs. These large trash mobs, Beserkers, fear after a certain amount of time into the encounter. Last night, this fear caused some large percentage of the party to crash, which was annoying and caused one wipe. Additionally, it seemed that a couple of the ZG bosses were buffed while others were made easier. (Tiger Boss for one.) Finally, Hakkar, the end boss, which was a pretty easy encounter for us previously, proved to be very difficult. I am not sure if this was a bug of some sort, or he was buffed. Overall, my patch experience was a negative one, which has pretty much been the norm with Blizzard. I hate that all my UI add ons stop working too, and I wish they would foster a better relationship with add on developers.
January 3, 2006
I’ve been pretty quiet here the last few months. I think this hiatus of sorts is over now, for a variety of reasons. One of them, however, is that I have accepted a new position working on a new project within Turner. I am no longer the lead technologist for PGA.com. The new position is exciting, and a bit scary in its proportions, but I am not allowed to discuss it in this forum. PGA.com was a great experience for me, three years filled with challenges, working with and for some great people, and learning a whole lot about golf and golf scoring. I think my final count was seven different golf scoring systems written from scratch. When the Masters approaches this Spring, I will feel a tinge of nostalgia.
December 31, 2005
Here’s wishing everyone, and their loved ones, a very happy and healthy New Year.
December 6, 2005
The new X-Men trailer makes me believe that this series of films is beginning to truly approach the embodiment of the comic series in the manner I had hoped for all along.
November 28, 2005
CoverBuddy lets you use your PSP as an iTunes remote over WiFi.
November 16, 2005
Lost Remote: Cancellation great for ‘Arrested Development’ Some great ideas and points here. This show deserves to live.
October 24, 2005
Ray releases Starfish into the wild. It’s a CF debugger he has been working on. Worth a look.