Coder, Gamer, Runner, Husband.
I have to admit, I really like my new setup. tail -f carlo.log for the “real” blog posts and tail -f carlo.tumblr for the random sillyness and interesting bits and pieces I come across. It works out well and has some advantages over writing a Post-It post every now and then.
It’s more …direct.
So I think I’ll keep using/maintaining it. Remember, it has a separate RSS feed.
Jedi Stamps. Apparently the “Jedi Shipping and Mailing Master” wants the collective opinion about the stamp you want to reign above all others. Really. [via Darth Vader]
Late to the party. ADS kids, listen up! What can I say, yes, me too. I still don’t fully get Twitter—I still don’t understand the total awesomeness everyone is so excited about; or the working business model behind it, for that matter.
We gots mail! We have unleashed a new beast—the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. On a scale from 1 to 10, this is so damn cool.
Quote of the day. Today by Beryl. Wise words, for those of you who don’t know or may have forgotten:
Do not pour your heart, soul, and life into your job. When the job goes sour, you may have nothing left.
That said, I really like my job. But it’s not my life—and that isn’t a contradiction.
Schöne Worte. Dana über das, was ich tue—programmieren, gern auch kreativ.
Es ist irgendwie Handwerk, ja. Du arbeitest schon mit Deinen Händen, aber Dein Werkstoff sind Ideen.
How to beat Google. Rich Skrenta lists some thoughts on how to do it.. I like this little nugget of wisdom, because it’s well said. (Emphasis mine.)
You cannot build something new and different with a big team. Big teams are only capable of duplicating existing technology. The sum of 20 sets of vision is mud.
Ever played flOw? Then you might be able to relate.
Clown car. Seriously, it’s not. (The image is safe for work, the type of humor might not be.) Haven’t laughed that much in a while.
The Daily Show. My favourite TV show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is part of the program of the new German Comedy Central. Now here’s the kicker—you can watch every new episode on their website. Let me sum that up, because it’s so fantastic: Daily Show – most recent ep – streamed – legally – free. Awesome!
Outlook vs. DST. This is what happens when you try to schedule a meeting to handle the DST changeover in Outlook.
PS3 Home. [via the always excellent Antigames] Sony’s planned Home service looks pretty rad. Now let’s see how much of the glitz they can pack into the final product, eh?
YPLAA. YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com is a site with a real purpose. Period. It even has notices you can print out and attach to offending parked cars! Loving it.
Right, I remember! Did I ever blog about being interviewed (“mentioned” would probably be the better term) by the guys over at the Yahoo Publisher Network blog? About Planet Yahoo!, of course. Hilarious how I completely forgot about this…
April 30. There’ll be an ARG to stimulate the Collective Intelligence to deal with the idea of an oil crisis starting end of April. I must say, I love the idea. There is apparently such a huge demand for ARGs, why not use this raw potential to do something worthwhile? World Without Oil aims to do that. Kudos.
Mac game development. [via Hendrik] Game developers give the Mac another look—this can only be a good thing. Yay!
Troubled languages. English is degrading each and every day, says Glass Maze’s lapsed cannibal in a amusing, yet angry rant.
I often find myself in meetings where the English language is beaten, burned, shat upon, drawn-and-quartered, and finally twisted into a monstrous parody of itself, then slapped onto a powerpoint slide and projected onto a wall, where its shame and ignominy are visible to all.
And you know what? He might be right, but I believe blood would come out of his ears on a daily basis, if he were a caring German listening to his native language. Don’t know what I mean? Take what he said, double it, and imagine parts of any given sentence being peppered with English/German halfbreeds constantly.
I notice that I, personally, see a decline in the quality of my German — which is my very own tongue, mind you —, due to the fact that I speak English half of the time for a good number of years by now. I switch between the languages without effort, sometimes in the middle of a sentence, and — worst of all — interchange English and German words rather frequently. Shame on me.
But the longer I think about it, the more I wonder whether this is a price we have to pay for globalization… Remember Blade Runner with his “gutter speak”? Just thinking out loud.
Description vs. person. defective yeti on match.com discrepancies. Well summed up.
Tables suck. Depending on the context, of course. The topic came up on one of our internal mailing lists, and Chris answered with a link to Why tables for layout is stupid, which is a really nice URL to hand out the next time the issue is raised. Great artwork, too! Go luck.
Blog nirvana. Valleywag came up with an interesting heatmap. Reminds me of Lem’s ‘Rough guide to the state of the Internet, circa 2006’.
YUI hosting. Nate on Free Hosting of YUI Files from Yahoo!:
Coinciding with this week’s release of YUI version 2.2.0, the one year anniversary of the YUI open-source release, and as announced at the YUI Party just moments ago, we’re opening up free YUI hosting from the Yahoo! network to all YUI implementers. If you’re using YUI for your own project, we’ll serve the files for you — gzipped, with good cache-control, using our state-of-the-art network, for free. You can count on these files being continuously available because they’re the same files, served by the same source, that we use for most YUI implementations at Yahoo!.
This is big, folks. Smart move, too.
Dell IdeaStorm. Dell.com’s new suggestions site kind of looks familiar. That said, I really like the idea of companies publicly gathering and displaying ideas from their users—when done right, this can be a win-win for everyone, so power to every company implementing one of those. Anyways, the one suggestion that made me grin?
Have Michael Dell try actually buying a PC using Dell.com
Google Apps. Business 2.0 Beta (how’s that for a blog name?) asks Are Google Apps’ Customers For Real?.
Here’s what Procter & Gamble actually says: “P&G will work closely with Google in shaping enterprise characteristics and requirements for these popular tools.” Translation: “One of our sysadmins is going to sign up for an account and send you bitchy emails about missing features.”
Don’t get me wrong, I like their web-based office tools, even though I don’t use them regularly. They’re well done, no doubt about it. But by now I find it somewhat unnerving that every single time Google launches something, it is hailed as the holy grail of the intarwebs.
Warcraft Lore, told by jokers. WOW Insider’s ‘Know Your Lore’ segments are pretty good. Every now and then they pick a person or event from the rich Warcraft history and recap it quickly in a fun way.
Arthas was the son of King Terenas Menethil, ruler of Lordaeron. As a youth, he trained in the art of combat and joined the Silver Hand, a group of paladins. He became known for his exploits in battle. He also briefly dallied with a young mage named Jaina Proudmoore, but it didn’t work out because long-distance things never end well. They decided to remain friends, which is as big a sign of impending doom as one can get.
Yeeeeeeeeeaaaah. TheToddTime.com – it probably helps if you’re a fan of Scrubs. And crazy.
Quote of the day. Once again it’s something JR said.
Again, the biggest problem with social networking sites is that they were created by people who don’t have friends.
The quote itself is both a bit inflammatory and highly hilarious, I agree, but the rest of his posts makes perfect sense and also reflects my point of view pretty much 100%.
Quote of the day. From a rest-discuss post about JSR 311: Java™ API for RESTful Web Services [thanks, Hendrik]:
This is like asking Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to write the Democratic Party platform.
“Bionic Seniors: Gerontomageddon”. Robotic suit to assist easy movement for Japan’s elderly—my initial thoughts:
Passion vs. brains. JR on the recent “OMFG! Yahoo! is ripping off digg!!1!!” debacle:
I don’t want passionate users. Passionate users are morons. i want engaged users. i want folks using products because they find them useful, beneficial and interesting. i want folks to tell us what they like, what they don’t like, and what would make their lives easier. i want users that regularly check out our competitors and choose us again. Sometimes we’ll be better, sometimes they will. Blinders only mean you miss the advantages when they happen. I’ll leave the passionate users to the porn sites.
