Archive for February, 2006

“Midget” is now a curse word.

I was watching “Parental Control” (I won’t give it a link, it doesn’t deserve one.) In any event, in one episode, the girl’s boyfriend was pretty short (5′2″), but while talking about him, one of the other guys on a date said “So, what’s up with your *beep* boyfriend?”…. “What makes you think he’s a […]

Review of Tom Coates’ Future of Web Apps talk

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A rip roaring good time.
Feb 26, 2006 by Erik Kastner event Tom Coates Future of Web Apps talk

★★★★★ I just finished listening to Tom Coates’ presentation from the Future of Web Apps Summit from Carson Workshops. The way I experienced this presentation was via audio […]

Gmail for your domain humor

After you change your MX records, it may take up to a day before we can detect the change. Sorry, but sometimes the Internet is slow… even for us.
— From the MX instruction page on gmail for your domain.

My company’s new vlog

My company (a very forward thinking retailer) has just lunched their vlog (I helped a bit). As far as we know, it’s the first wine vlog. Let me know what you think of it
Winelibrary TV - the first wine vlog?

Review: How we built Flickr

I went to “How we built Flickr”:http://carsonworkshops.com/dev/henderson/25AUG2005.html yesterday in the city.
It was “Cal Henderson”:http://flickr.com/people/bees speaking for 8 hours! I learned a whole lot about the right and wrong way to go about building a web app that would scale to “millions of users”:http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/02/100000000th.html. Aside from it being a great workshop by Cal, Carson workshops put […]

Claiming my blog

Technorati Profile

Visualizing a fiery wheel.

I _love_ the designers (and programmers) over at “IconBuffet”:http://iconbuffet.com/. They recently released a dashboard widget, “ColorBurn”:http://www.firewheeldesign.com/widgets/, that has a new color palette each day.
They are having a “contest”:http://firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/February/a_colorburn_contest.php for a few more days to have the community give them some new and fresh color schemes
They way it works is this:
* come up with a color […]

Investing

My Investment advice for 2006: “3. Invest in yourself. Do the things that can get you closer to your goals and dreams. It wont come from a brokerage commercial. It will come from preparing yourself ,  working hard and standing apart from your competition. You Inc is the best stock you can ever buy…if you […]

Big change - coming soon!

Welp - stay tuned. Coming soon - to *this* space. A NEW blog. It will be typo powered.
I plan on focusing on Ruby on Rails mostly.
Get ready