Stephen Walli, who I have enjoyable chats with at conferences periodically, has a new blog, with a very cogent essay on intellectual property, business practices and open source. A nice way to start a blog.
Archive for January, 2005
Cool flickr third-party app
A neat color-picker image finder, which selects images from the squared circle group pool (see my own contribution to that pool).
Lelouch’s Rendez-Vous
One of the things I liked about grad school was that I got a broader education than you could reasonably expect. As an example, I was reminded tonight of a movie that my first advisor, Jim Anderson, showed us one day, Claude Lelouch’s Rendez-vous, which I learned via Loic is now on the web. It’s [...]
Lelouch's Rendez-Vous
One of the things I liked about grad school was that I got a broader education than you could reasonably expect. As an example, I was reminded tonight of a movie that my first advisor, Jim Anderson, showed us one day, Claude Lelouch’s Rendez-vous, which I learned via Loic is now on the web. It’s [...]
gmail accounts
I have a few gmail accounts free to whoever wants them. Let me know.
Cal Henderson Quotes
Cal Henderson, from flickr, at the PHPWest conference: “Avoid code reuse (just a nice typo)” and, talking about phpxpath: “phpxpath is great. It’s on Sourceforge, but it’s still great” and about UTF8: “Can’t remember what UTF-8 stands for. Something something something eight!” a bit that made Rasmus and me feel old: “I think UUencode stands [...]
Documentaries are great
Strange to follow the Apple post with this one, but hey… Last night I watched two documentaries — one on celebrated photojournalists honored for their work in 2004 (“In the life on fire”, produced by the BBC), and one on culture jamming (“CultureJam”). Both are recommended. In fact, I record pretty much every documentary that [...]
Good marketing
People were buzzing about the new releases from Apple yesterday, the iPod Shuffle and the Mac Mini. The Shuffle is quintessential good marketing, in my opinion. The product is technically quite average, but the pricing is good (Shane is annoyed that Apple just undercut his recent purchase of a “low-priced” competitor), the design is slick, [...]
Massive Change: Optimistic and Simplistic, but Worthwhile
I took a long lunch today to squeeze in a long-delayed visit to the last day of the Massive Change exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, before it goes on its multi-continent tour. I do recommend it as an interesting, thought-provoking show, if you happen to intersect its flight path. The exhibit’s tagline is “It’s [...]
Taking pictures
I’ve been obsessing with digital photography for a few weeks. First, I decided that it was time to get a new digital camera (the old Nikon 950 was fine, but showing its age, both mechanically and comparatively to modern cameras). Turns out Santa was thinking the same thing, which was good. It took a long [...]
