Monthly Archives: June 2008

GR Shared Link - Obama loves Wonder, Dylan, Springsteen… Sheryl Crow

Obama loves Wonder, Dylan, Springsteen… Sheryl Crow
from: brooklynvegan

Twitter - Diving into linkedin; not entirely sure why. It is cool to reconnect with people, but must resist wasting time exploring + following links.

Diving into linkedin; not entirely sure why. It is cool to reconnect with people, but must resist wasting time exploring + following links.

Link - Well, it appears Java is slow

Well, it appears Java is slow
“Do yourself a favour, and kick his ass out the door. If you had asked him about Python, Ruby (which really is slow, but, I digress), javascript, Lisp, Lua, C#, or, really -anything- besides C, Assembler, and C++, he would have complained about ’slow’.”

GR Shared Link - World’s Deepest Pool Lacks A High Dive

World’s Deepest Pool Lacks A High Dive
from: Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
so freakin’ scary.

Twitter - @futurelevel Twitter is fading a bit for me too. Still like it, but a week off showed me how little I miss the Track info flood. Trim time!

@futurelevel Twitter is fading a bit for me too. Still like it, but a week off showed me how little I miss the Track info flood. Trim time!

Twitter - @dancameron LOL at “close to being open” - kind of like “kind of pregnant”. In terms of app dev, WM is much more “open” friendly than iPhone

@dancameron LOL at “close to being open” - kind of like “kind of pregnant”. In terms of app dev, WM is much more “open” friendly than iPhone

Link - The president and the oil crisis

The president and the oil crisis
Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.”

Fatherhood

A must watch video on fatherhood and personal / family responsibility in general.
Please check it out even if you’re not an Obama fan; I think anyone would appreciate and agree with most of it - politics aside (there is a bit of political policy pushing towards the end, but I’m sure you can stomach it) [...]

Link - Apache Wicket - Vision

Apache Wicket - Vision
In art, negative space is the part that’s not the subject. In music, negative space is the rest. In software, negative space is all the code that you managed to avoid writing. In all three disciplines, it’s what separates what is truly excellent from what

Twitter - Returned to office today (after a full week) with zero voicemail. Huge success; the subtle hints on my distaste for voicemail have paid off!

Returned to office today (after a full week) with zero voicemail. Huge success; the subtle hints on my distaste for voicemail have paid off!