I’ve been playing around with Twitter (mbuckbee) more and more as a sort of generalized IM client and lightweight blogging tool. I wanted to get it setup so that BuzzwordCompliant posts would automatically update on Twitter. I played around with a few of the WordPress Twitter Plugins, but they haven’t been working very well, so Scott Beale of LaughingSquid fame [...]

Paul Kedrosky is pointing to a Meta-Filter discussion about the most intellectually stimulating podcasts. One that didn’t come up in his list, or on MF was Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series. A great place to start is Steve Young and Stan Christensen’s discussion which is labeled as being about Negotiations On and Off the Field, but much more about [...]

Dave Winer posted earlier today about Building TwitterGram into a really big thing!. As part of the discussion, he stated that we need to figure out a way to provide Payloads for Twitter. Here is my suggestion for doing this on our own (no divine intervention by ev needed): Short Answer – Lets use YAML Quick Example of YAML Enclosure [...]

I came across this fascinating plugin for WordPress today: GigPress. It’s a full add-on to a standard WordPress (open source blog software, which also happens to be what I’m running here) installation, targeted specifically to bands doing live music tours. Some cool features: Grouping of shows into nameable tours Auto-linking to Google Maps for venues with a street address Ability [...]

I’ve been playing the new Call of Duty game by Infinity Ward and in general it’s a straightforward (though very pretty) First Person Shooter video game. Now, while Call of Duty is at the apex of video game graphics and design, there is still little chance of mistaking it for actual reality. In display, the game at best looks like [...]

The Escapist’s Yahtzee took a break from his normal scathingly funny reviews (check out the video below) to spend some time hanging out with Valve Software this past week. An interesting sidenote in his writeup of the trip is that Valve has a Cabal style of management where: When a job needs done or a problem needs solving, or an [...]

Earlier today I completed upgrading my MacMini to Leopard and it somewhat surprisingly feels faster than when it was running on Tiger. Apple’s Ironic Bluish Screen of Death was the only serious issue that I ran into, but by repeatedly trying “Option C” in their recommendations I was able to get back up and running.Of the 300 New Features, the [...]

Recently the release of Portal has energized discussions of game mechanics and “alternative” (Non FPS, RTS, MMO style games). In this vein, I came across a video for a game called Crayon Physics, by Kloonigames. From what I’ve seen it looks like the most compelling reason ever to buy a Tablet PC.

I found myself in need of some data serialization methods this evening and checked out Yaml which is billed as an “easy” way of saving an object (say a query result) and then later re-constituting that information back into something useful. Turns out this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do presently in Ruby as there have been some changes [...]

Great article about FusionOne on FoundRead today about how FusionOne refocused their software offerings into a profitable company. The lessons: Lesson 1: Identify the “fatal flaw� Lesson 2: Return to a customer philosophy Lesson 3: Cut out customization and instead offer “private label� Lesson 4: Off-load some of the legwork Lesson 5: “Sell it like your life depends on it� [...]