I’m testing putting together an embeddable link feature in the matchorclash.com system. Basically looking for something that can help spread this virally a bit more. I’ve had “make it a facebook app” suggested a few times, and it’s on the list of things to look in to, but I’d rather get something launched [...]

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I’ve had two frustrating phone calls with directv today which brought to the fore all the things I hate about dealing with phone services.  Every time I call up places that I regularly call, I’m forced to
1.  Press “dos” if I “desea espanol”.
2.  Tell the friendly attendant robot what my needs are, like “tell me [...]

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Perhaps it’s because I’m here @ work *way* too late tonight, but I was staring at a packet of soy sauce and thought “wouldn’t it be cool if I had a little straw thingy that I could poke in to the soy sauce to drink it like it was a miniature CapriSun?”  Yes, that was [...]

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Specifically of technical books.  I’ve got a small backlog of books I wanted reviewed for techbookreviews.com.  I thought I had more time than I did, but I don’t (isn’t that always how it goes?).  So, in the interests of time and getting other people besides myself involved, I’d like to invite some of you to [...]

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Some of my former colleagues are going to be moved in to cubicles this week.  I just happened to find CubeDoor.com today.  What a great idea!  Won’t really stop the noise factor too much, but certainly a nice addition to any cube in an office.  I wonder if this is one of those things that’s [...]

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I put together a small utility to generate random user data several months back. I realized yesterday that I hadn’t released the source code - I thought I had. This generates plausible names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers. The phone number area codes don’t generally match up with the address, [...]

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for the social web to evolve to the next level.  Is that at all controversial?  I hope at least the title is, as I’d like to provoke a bit of thought in you, the reader, about the topic of DRM.
I’ve been mulling this and related topics for some time, but not quite in these words.  [...]

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I had a few ideas from last week that I wanted to throw out here for posterity.
Grahame was talking about Haskell, and I asked if he was going to wait for JHaskell - or Jaskell - before adopting it. We then quickly realized Raskell (a ruby version) and Paskell (php/perl/python version) would be good [...]

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New word: A DIY dialysis kit.  This would also be a good brand name for a home-based dialysis.

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Cereal strainer
I’m tired of getting to the end of the Lucky Charms and Count Chocula and having all the tiny cereal powder clog up my milk.  Having a cereal-oriented strainer would allow me to lose the powder and just keep the charms all to myself.  I might even go so far as to insinuate that [...]

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