When a Link is Not Enough

Ya no sé que hacer conmigo

2007-09-05T04:51:00.001-07:00

I saw this video in spanish and loved it. It's by the group Cuarteto de Nos from Uruguay. Even if you don't understand spanish, I think you will really enjoy watching.

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The Quest to Get Things Done

2007-07-26T09:31:00.001-07:00

I've been struggling to find a good computer program to Get Things Done. At first, it seems like such a thing should be relatively easy to get right. However, I have tried several, and have yet to find any that are completely satisfying. I have used GTDInbox, todoist.com, rememberthemilk.com, Tracks (tracks.tra.in) and experimented some with the OmniFocus beta. The key features that I cannot live without are:

Keyboard access - the *entire* interface must be keyboard accessible. I should be able to query, complete, and create todo items with just my keyboard.
Email integration - many todos come via email, so it's critical to be able to turn those emails into todos.
Overviews - I want to see my actions all at once, grouped by context or by project as I choose.
Focused views - I want to be able to limit my view and just look at actions in a specific project or context.
Web access - I want to store my data on the web, so I can access the data from anywhere.
Hosted access - I want it to be on someone else's server, so I don't have to worry about setting up a server, backing it up, etc. on my own!
Cheap/free - I do not want to pay for this service. Feel free to put Google Ads or something, but I don't want to pay for this.
Fast - it should be quick to load, create, complete actions, etc.
Archiving - Good at archiving completed projects and actions without creating clutter.

Sadly, while each of these applications all support some of the above features, I have yet to find one that supports all. Here are my assessments of the above applications:

GTDInbox - Integrates well with email, provides good focused views, web accessible, hosted access, and free. Does not have good keyboard shortcuts for creating, or completing actions, somewhat slow (because it sits on top of GMail), and archiving projects creates some mess.
Rememberthemilk.com - Excellent keyboard access. Web-based, hosted service, free, and fast. It does have email integration. It is pretty good at archiving completed projects and actions without creating clutter, though over time it will accumulate a long list of 'archived' lists. It supports focused views well. Really, the main place that RTM fails is in allowing good overviews of projects and contexts. You have to mouse over each item to see what tags it has. In my RTM GTD system, the tags are the projects and contexts, so the tags are critical to understanding the list item. Having to mouse over each one makes that really hard! There are two things that could be done to improve this:

Allowing lists to display 'grouped' sub-lists by tag (the user could specify a list of tags to use for grouping, which would appear as sub-headings inside of the bigger list)
Displaying tags directly on the list item.

Todoist.com - is web-based, fast, and hosted. It supports some keyboard shortcuts, and email integration. It is free. It does well at providing focused Project views. You can use tags to simulate contexts, but it is hard to review the big picture of the contexts you use. I'm not sure how it does with Archiving. The main failing points of todoist are the Overviews, and it could have better keyboard access. Similar to rememberthemilk, you can 'tag' your actions with contexts to enable searching. However, central to GTD is the idea that you review actions by context (when you can do them, and what you need to do them) rather than by project (what you are doing and why). Todoist gives a solid overview of your projects, and you can review actions by project. You can search for tags, and use tags as contexts, but this makes it hard to look at the big picture with respect to contexts.
Tracks - is web-based, can be found hosted for free at http://tracks.tra.in/, and supports some keyboard shortcuts. You can create actions with keyboard shortcuts, but you cannot complete them with the keyboard. This is the main limitation to the application. I would like to see keyboard navigation a-la GMail, or rememberthemilk.com. It is reasonably fast, and does a pretty good job of archiving (same issues as RTM). It looks like there's some experimental email integration, but not easy to get at without chatting with the sysadmin. This application really shines in its Overviews. When you add tasks by project, it shows them all listed by context. You can hide and show your contexts as you like. It also provides decent focused views by context or by project. I like this application a lot.
OmniFocus - I really like OmniGroup, and their applications are slick. I really want to like this application. It supports excellent keyboard access, focused views, overviews, and is fast. It does support some web access, but I don't like the way it's done - it sets up your mac as a web server, and makes you access your todos over the net via your mac. That means that if my mac dies, or is asleep, or isn't on the net at all, I can't access my todos. That's not acceptable to me, so I have been unable to really dig in and learn this application very well.

That's all for now. Please let me know if you have any good leads to applications I should try.

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OS X System Lockups

2007-07-25T20:36:00.001-07:00

The way my Macbook Pro has been behaving recently is troubling me. I have experienced frequent system lockups - unable to force quit applications or do anything to remedy the issue. The only way I seem to be able to fix it is to hard reboot the machine (which I hate to do!). I have a few leads, but nothing solid yet:

1. 10.4.10 - I have seen some threads pointing to faulty airport network drivers under 10.4.10. Since I am running 10.4.10 over an airport network most of the time, this could contribute to the issue. None of the threads I have seen mention a complete freeze, however. For that reason, I think that this cannot be the root cause of the issue, but just a contributing factor.

2. Firefox 2.0.0.5 - I have found several threads that blame Firefox versions after 2.0.0.3 for system freezing, memory leaks, and other issues. Many of these threads even suggest that the issues are cross-platform. However, I have seen this issue a few times when no browser at all was open. Also, I have tried using the Intel-optimized builds at http://www.beatnikpad.com/ which seemed to work better (but still exhibited the freeze), and Flock (same thing happened). It could be the combination of the browser (network connections) + the airport bug, but still seems far-fetched.

3. Lookupd crash - there are many threads out there that mention that lookupd can crash, leaving behind symptoms that are remarkably similar to those I have seen. Spinning beach balls, inability to force quit, and general unresponsiveness of the system are symptoms. In fact, I have seen messages like 'launchd: Server 47c3 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[6486]: exited abnormally: Hangup' in my system logs, which strongly suggest this may be the issue. Unfortunately, despite installing Unlockupd (which most point to as a solution to this issue), it has recurred.

4. cmd-tab freeze - in a recent version of OS X, there were numerous complaints of a freeze that occurred while switching applications using cmd-tab. I have not seen mention of this occurring in 10.4.10.

I have tried the usual suspects - repairing permissions, checking for corrupted preference files, disk repair, removing system caches, rebuilding the extensions cache. None of these seem to have fixed the issue yet. I can't wait for the next incremental release - this constant crashing is driving me crazy!

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I always thought Content-disposition was part of the protocol but...

2007-01-10T06:33:00.001-08:00

It's not! From this site:

The Content-disposition MIME header
Relevant to both of the subsequent sections, there exists a Content-disposition header for the purpose of proposing client behaviour in regard to a particular resource. The header isn't officially part of the HTTP protocol, and RFC2616 warns that the use of this header has "very serious" security implications: for a long time it was customary for HTTP user agents to disregard any such header. However, the header has been increasingly implemented in client applications (such as MSIE and web browsers such as Mozilla and Netscape), and information providers might give consideration (I'm not saying which way their decision should fall!) to using it either in conjunction with techniques mentioned below, or instead. The use of a Content-disposition value such as attachment;filename=myfile.ext represents a proposal for the client to download the file, even if the client would normally display this content-type.

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Advanced JavaScript Lessons

2006-12-19T14:02:00.000-08:00

Yahoo Advanced JavaScript classes. Yahoo posted these free advanced lessons in JavaScript online. I've watched a couple and they seem pretty good.

Douglas Crockford: "Advanced JavaScript" (1 of 3)

Douglas Crockford: "Advanced JavaScript" (2 of 3)

Douglas Crockford: "Advanced JavaScript" (3 of 3)

Find, Collect, Share - LLARC Presents 2006

2006-09-08T10:41:00.000-07:00

This is my presentation for LLARC Presents, Fall '06. I cover several web-based tools to find, collect, and share information on the web. I discuss del.icio.us, diigo, podshow, Google Earth, Google Notebook, and the Firefox plugins "Alexa Sidebar Again" and Shazou.

This is available at Ourmedia under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Technorati Tags: technology, language, web20

Video conferencing via iChat is awesome

2006-09-03T21:33:00.000-07:00

I think this must be one of the cutest cat pictures I have - my sister's cat, Mr. Binks, sleeping. She put her computer on her bed in Michigan, and I took this picture in Boston. Most of my immediate family is available via iChat now. Two grandmothers, two sisters away in college and grad school, and my parents at home in Massachusetts. Even my soon-to-be mother-in-law now has a camera and a mac, and of course, my fiancé has one too. We can do four-way video chatting at the drop of a hat. That is truly awesome. I never realized before how limiting the phone can be. When I have the ability to "show" something, rather than to try and explain it or describe it, it becomes much easier to communicate. I have also found that video conferences seem to be much more memorable for me than phone conversations. It seems like you've really visited with a person, rather than just spoken to them. And, to think, it's practically free to talk this way. Sure, there is a steep adoption curve to overcome, but my family is already there. How cool is that? I'm looking forward to the new iChat features that will be available in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), but until then, I'm very pleased with what I can already do.

PodShow - an excellent web-based podcast aggregator

2006-08-22T20:30:00.000-07:00

I have explored quite a few podcast aggregation solutions, and so far this is the best I have seen. PodShow allows you to create any number of public or private channels, or lists of podcasts you wish to watch. This makes it easy to group channels into categories, like video vs. audio, or tech vs. music, or any number of other possibilities. You can then use your aggregator of choice to subscribe to these custom channels very easily. The only missing feature so far is allowing individual episodes to be added to a channel... but I am hopeful that that will come in time. Overall, this is a great effort. I am very pleased to see that web-based podcast aggregation is making progress. Now I can really start to get into podcasts.

CrossOver Mac runs Windows apps on your Mac

2006-08-07T08:48:00.000-07:00

CrossOver Mac allows you to run many Windows applications transparently on the Mac. This is a screenshot of CrossOver Mac running Internet Explorer 6 for Windows. What a great way to test web sites for cross-browser compatibility! It will cost $59.95 for a single-user license, with a Beta of the product available to test drive now.

"Cider" lets Windows games run on Intel Macs

2006-08-07T08:03:00.000-07:00

One huge barrier to adoption of the mac platform is the normally very slow way in which games come to the platform. Cider promises to change that for good. Using a minimal set of the Win32 API, it offers developers an incredibly simple method for porting games to the mac. As a longtime mac user who enjoys gaming, this is very exciting news for me.

The (un)Happy Planet Index

2006-08-04T04:07:00.000-07:00

Ahh, happiness... as an idealist, I generally believe that this is what life is about. You would think, with all of our wealth, that the U.S. would be at the top of the world happiness index. However, it's way down at number 150 out of 178! From the site, it is calculated as follows:

The HPI incorporates three separate indicators: ecological footprint, life-satisfaction and life expectancy. The statistical calculations that underlie the HPI are quite complex. However conceptually, it is straight forward and intuitive:

HPI =
Life satisfaction x Life expectancy

Ecological Footprint

The HPI reflects the average years of happy life produced by a given society, nation or group of nations, per unit of planetary resources consumed. Put another way, it represents the efficiency with which countries convert the earth’s finite resources into well-being experienced by their citizens.

This is a very interesting measure...

My web site

2006-08-03T19:58:00.000-07:00

I'm really starting to get into building my web site! You can see the latest draft here. I'm trying to include a lot of very dynamic content - things that I will update without even thinking about it. My flickr photos, del.icio.us links, and interesting blog entries on Google Reader. Working on this site may even rejuvinate my blog posting - here's hoping!

Google buys Writely

2006-03-10T07:10:00.000-08:00

In an interesting twist of events, Google just purchased Writely, a very popular web-based word processor and collaboration tool. Check out the details at Ars Technica.

Smart People Ask Questions

2006-02-03T18:53:00.000-08:00

I like this entry on "I will teach You to be Rich." The author reminds us to be humble, and to ask questions when we have them. It's a fairly long post, but a very worthwhile read.

Smart People Ask Questions

Structured Blogging

2005-12-14T06:31:00.000-08:00

The Internet has had web sites, audio clips, and video clips probably for most of its existence. Why is it that Blogs, Podcasts, and Vlogs have taken off and are receiving so much attention? I believe that it is primarily because RSS and Atom feeds have given a computer-readable structure to the information and thus allowed easy remixing and aggregating of your content. This morning I read a blog entry that really caught my eye - there is a new WordPress and MovableType plugin that has the potential to add more computer-readable structure to blogging. It will support metainformation about the type or purpose of your entry (e.g. is it about a book you want to sell, or a person you know, or who knows what else) so that aggregators and remixers have the potential to add even more value to your content. Check it out.

From Structured Blogging:

Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that's more usable. You can enter information in this form and it'll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it.

Think of structured blogging as RSS for your information. Now any kind of data - events, reviews, classified ads - can be represented in your blog.

Structured Blogging makes it easy to create, edit, and maintain different kinds of posts and is very similar to an edit form on a blog. The difference is that the structure will let users add specific styles to each type, and add links and pictures for reviews.

These styles and tags ensure that movie and book reviews don't look like calendar or journal entries, and that each content type can be quickly recognized and processed by automated search services and other applications. Woven into the HTML of a blog post, this information travels with it through syndication feeds, readers, and aggregators. Ultimately, it can even be converted out to other formats our Structured Blogging tools support such as RDF in XML.

Now anyone can build applications or services based on the structure of an entry. Using Structured Blogging, job listings can be created, posted, searched, and found by any service; buyers and sellers of goods can publish what they want to buy or sell and have those posts searched and listed by any number of search services.

Beauty is Everywhere

2005-12-13T19:05:00.000-08:00

beauty is very where
Originally uploaded by jaresty.

I commuted to Cambridge this morning at 6 AM in the bitter cold. From the subway, I came above ground for 100 feet, and then ducked back down into the MIT tunnels to keep warm. I walked down the tunnel listening to the wind and the distant hum of machinery. There were several paper letters hanging from the ceiling. I turned to read them: "Beauty is Everywhere." Standing there, I watched the letters sway back and forth and back again, and listened to the wind in the tunnels. It was such an odd thing to see this letters hanging from the ceiling. It made me think, and brought me calm and peace for one beautiful moment.

Is The Long Tail the End of Giants?

2005-12-09T15:44:00.000-08:00

Tortoises @ Maritim Hotel, Mauritius
Originally uploaded by timparkinson.

In recent history, I believe it is the common belief that just a few major companies are dominating the American economy. In the early 1980's, IBM was perceived as "big brother." Some time later, and perhaps even now, Microsoft has a similar reputation. In the past month or two, I've been saying that Google will be the Microsoft of the Internet.
This past week, Yahoo acquired del.icio.us, and they have owned Flickr for some time. In my mind, that puts Yahoo in a very powerful position. They own two of the most significant social tagging services on the net. That got me thinking about all of the material I've read about The Long Tail. Suddenly, those big companies don't seem so powerful. It's so easy to publish content, and web services companies can roll out new products very very quickly. I understand that up until now, the majority of Internet traffic has gone through a limited number of web sites (not so so different from the top 50% of books or movies or whatever else). Can recommendation systems change that? Are our individual tastes enough to drive diversity in web services just as they can drive sales in niche book markets? I don't know. I would like to hear what you think.

Reflective ad piques my interest

2005-12-07T16:56:00.000-08:00

boston globe thought bubbles
Originally uploaded by jaresty.

The Boston Globe has put up these funny, reflective advertisements on the Subway. The "thought bubbles" are all over the car, positioned just so that each bubble is over a seat where someone might sit. As you look about the subway, you see one person "thinking" about universal healthcare, and another "thinking" about the $100 laptop, and many more current events. It's amusing to imagine each person on the subway considering these events, and it's a good way to learn some current news. I love this ad, and hope to see many more like it in the future.

Reactrix breaks down boundaries

2005-12-07T16:42:00.000-08:00

reactrix
Originally uploaded by jaresty.

At Loews Theater on the Boston Common, I saw this interactive display projected on the floor. It was bright and quite beautiful to watch. At times it would project a soccer ball or a hockey puck on the floor, and you could "kick" the ball by waving your shadow over the projection. It also had a few other effects, like rippling water and sprinkling colorful flowers all around your shadow.
Watching and playing with the display was enjoyable, but what really intrigued me was the way it broke down social boundaries. Passers by simply could not resist playing this game. In an hour of waiting for our movie, I watched people start playing alone, pairing off, and totally disregarding the "cliques" they came with. This stuff is really cool. Check out Reactrix at their web site.

Getting to Yes

2005-12-04T14:55:00.000-08:00

This week, I finished reading a well-known book about negotiation, "Getting to Yes," by Roger Fisher and William Ury. They argue that, for the most part, people engage in "positional negotiation." What this means, is that they will state their positions "I want this," or "I think that...," which often results in damaged relationships and unwise decisions. They advocate trying to "Separate the people from the problem," "Focus on interests, not positions," "Invent Options for Mutual Gain," and "Insist on Using Objective Criteria."
The concepts in this book are generally intuitive and quite effective. They break down negotiating into simple concepts. I spent the weekend developing a mind map for these concepts in the hope of keeping it fresh in my mind.
After a few weeks of trying to implement this book in my day-to-day, I have found two of their ideas to be very easy and helpful to use.
First, try to identify the all of the interests behind any given position. Ask the other side "why" about their own positions, and "why not" about the options you invent.
Second, wherever possible, ask questions like "do you agree that...?" rather than making positional statements, whenever you are discussing the issue(s) at hand.
Here's my mind map. I hope you find it useful.

GMail makes me feel so good

2005-11-29T18:29:00.000-08:00

GMail is the closest I've ever been to email nirvana. Labeling (much like tagging - a la del.icio.us) is more intuitive than foldering emails. The search is fast and sophisticated. I have a system for using my email to Get Things Done, and honestly it is much easier with GMail than it was using a desktop mail program. If I could add a few more things, it would make my GMail life much simpler.

I would like to:

use keyboard shortcuts for "label" and "remove label."
define "canned" searches. For example, I want to find all messages having label "a" but not label "b" just by clicking a link.
use keyboard shortcuts to perform those "canned" searches
define macros for repetitive operations. For example, I want to remove label "a" and apply label "b" with a menu and/or a keystroke.
see some statistics - who am I getting the most email from? how much am I writing and to whom?
group conversations or break up conversations by hand
find "similar" conversations
schedule messages to be sent (send myself an alarm later?)

The Golden Age of Media Production

2005-11-26T20:34:00.000-08:00

A fascinating paper from David Blackburn, a Harvard PhD student, on the economics of P2P file-sharing concludes that it does indeed depress music sales overall. But the effect is not felt evenly. The hits at the top of the charts lose sales, but the niche artists further down the popularity curve actually benefit from file-trading.

The Long Tail: The effect of P2P file-sharing depends on popularity

"The Long Tail" is an argument about the future of media; essentially, it argues that the bottom half of the market for anything at all (book, music, movie, etc) represents a larger potential market than the upper half. I'm afraid that I cannot very well present the argument here... please read Wired: The Long Tail if you haven't done so before.

This paper from David Blackburn argues that file sharing is reducing music sales, but only for the top quarter of musicians! The rest of musicians are actually helped by the exposure. What this means for the future remains to be seen.

I have a theory: I think we live right now in a golden age of media production. Right now, there is a tremendous amount of money available for producing films and CDs. The cost to publish media has dropped to nothing as there are now free publishing sites on the net (OurMedia). Independent film and music makers can publish vast quantities of material as a free download, earning money (if necessary) through advertising. While it's unlikely that these free media can compete one-on-one with major films, it is likely that they will be interesting to someone ("The Long Tail"). It is becoming much easier to find material (DTV, FireAnt, Creative Commons Search). I believe that when this independent media becomes easy to find, it will consume a significant portion of the market. This competition for consumer's time will make major media productions less lucrative. Ultimately, competition from a wide array of sources will hurt major media productions.

Google Maps is Not Enough

2005-11-22T20:19:00.000-08:00

Holy cow - Google Maps mashups have been taking off like mad for some time now and I was in the dark. I wish that Google would release Google Earth for Mac already! I stumbled across GoogleMapsMania for the first time a few days ago. In short order, I discovered loads of interesting map mashups.

I think this is very exciting. Location-based information is one of the first steps involved in bringing the virtual back out into the real world. It's a remarkable tool for browsing media by location. All of these mashups show a real demand for customizable, collaborative, social maps. I would love to see Google add support for maps to their Google Groups service, and perhaps to allow creating sets of public or private personal maps. The only other thing I can think to ask for is a Google directory-style browsing interface for looking up businesses (and maybe groups, or people) on the Google maps.

vlogmap (and check out this beautiful Google Earth vlog tour)
a map of podcasts
Flickr photos and more on a map

Blogs on a google map:

Check out international Google Maps news:

Search for more interesting maps at GoogleMapsMania on Google. Or, if you're feeling creative, build your own Google Map with mapbuilder or YourGMap.

Google Reader Impressions

2005-11-22T18:39:00.000-08:00

Google Reader is very very close to the perfect blog reader for me. The problem I have with reading blogs is information overload. It's great to be able to read the web in one place; it's awesome that everyone and anyone can do it; but, if you read everything that you subscribe to then you will be buried beneath it.

This is a fundamental difference between browsing the web and subscribing to it: when you browse, you do it for a limited amount of time and you miss things. When you subscribe, you don't miss anything - the less you read, the more you have to read.

Google Reader solves this nicely by introducing a recommendation system. By default, articles are sorted by relevance. Presumably, this rating is a function of links to the article and the previous items you have "starred" and who knows what-all-else. With this system, I can read for however long I feel like reading and not feel like I'm falling behind.

A few things I would really like to see on Google Reader are:

statistics: I want to know what I'm reading, what I'm starring, who's posting, etc. from all of my subscriptions.

time spent/posts read: while I'm reading, I want to know how much time I have been reading...

search: I don't know what facility is there yet for searching, but this is a major boon to me. I can't even hazard a guess at the number of times I've remembered "something from a a blog" and spent hours on Google trying to find it to no avail.

Finally, wfzimmerman, at the "Unofficial Google Reader Blog" has some very good ideas to improve it:

I've got to have a way of looking under the hood so I understand why it's giving me the articles that it does. I also want to be able to tweak my preferences to emphasize either my ostensible preferences -- give me more articles related to work -- or my actual preferences -- give me more articles related to Michigan Wolverine football.
like this. For example, I read "Scoble on the Ray Ozzie memo". I'd have liked to have a memeorandum-like way to connect to highly networked conversations about Scoble on Ozzie.
Recall. They need to work on adding filters or something to the 'by date' view so that Reader can also be used as a reliable current awareness tool -- something that lets you scan and evaluate every post related to a given topic. Maybe the best way to do this would be to provide an API and let people use it build monitoring tools like this new service from IBM.
Let's program it in.

Lens: the Unofficial Google Reader Blog: Google Reader's relevance view: Trust but verify?

technorati tags: Google Reader

Mudita

2004-12-27T10:53:00.000-08:00

My fiancee is a marathon runner. I've hardly ever run in my life. I've been training in the past few weeks to improve my endurance. I'm not a competitive person, but I'm still afraid I'll be taking a hit to my self-esteem when I go run with her this week. In that light, I went out on the web looking for a good meditation to prepare myself, and I found one on "mudita."

In buddhist philosophy, mudita is the third of the four brahmaviharas, the inner "divine abodes" of lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity that are every human being's true nature. The term mudita is often narrowly translated as "sympathetic" or "altruistic" joy, the pleasure that comes when we delight in other people's well-being rather than begrudge it. But since in practice, it's all but impossible to experience happiness for others unless we first develop the capacity to taste it in our own lives, many Buddhist teachers interpret mudita more broadly as referring to the inner fountain of infinite joy that is available to each of us at all times, regardless of our circumstances. The more deeply we drink from this fountain, the more secure we become in our own abundant happiness, and the easier it then becomes for us to relish the joy of other people as well.

I love yoga and every bit of the philosophy that I've learned. I wish I knew where to find a more spiritually-based yoga center in downtown Boston. E-mail me if you know of one - so far I've mainly gotten into Iyengar Yoga at Beacon Hill Athletic Clubs.

HPI =	Life satisfaction x Life expectancy

	Ecological Footprint

When a Link is Not Enough

Ya no sé que hacer conmigo

The Quest to Get Things Done

OS X System Lockups

I always thought Content-disposition was part of the protocol but...

It's not! From this site:

The Content-disposition MIME header

Advanced JavaScript Lessons

Douglas Crockford: "Advanced JavaScript" (1 of 3)

Douglas Crockford: "Advanced JavaScript" (2 of 3)

Douglas Crockford: "Advanced JavaScript" (3 of 3)

Find, Collect, Share - LLARC Presents 2006

Video conferencing via iChat is awesome

PodShow - an excellent web-based podcast aggregator

CrossOver Mac runs Windows apps on your Mac

"Cider" lets Windows games run on Intel Macs

The (un)Happy Planet Index

My web site

Google buys Writely

Smart People Ask Questions

Structured Blogging

Beauty is Everywhere

Is The Long Tail the End of Giants?

Reflective ad piques my interest

Reactrix breaks down boundaries

Getting to Yes

GMail makes me feel so good

The Golden Age of Media Production

Google Maps is Not Enough

Google Reader Impressions

Mudita

The `Content-disposition` MIME header