Archive for April, 2007

Joel on Software (the book)

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

I’m reading Joel’s book Joel on Software. The book is fun to read and I agree with most of what Joel has to say. A lot of the content is five years old but most of it doesn’t sound dated.

Joel has some annoying tendencies as a writer that bothered me. The most [...]

Mii

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Thoughts on Twitter

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Twitter has officially taken off. Even I have a twitter page.

I think twitter really took off a few months ago. In my view, the turning point for twitter’s popularity was the 2007 SXSW Interactive Conference. This conference is a gathering of people who are on the cutting edge of technology [...]

Walt Mossberg uses a PC for what appears to be the first time in years

Friday, April 6th, 2007

World famous tech pundit Walt Mossberg reflects on the miserable experience PC of buying a PC:

The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer. The manufacturers don’t act as if the computer belongs to you. They act as if it is a billboard for restricted trial versions of software and ads [...]

Vanity Search

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

I told someone the other day that they could Google me and I’d show up. Today, I tried that and it didn’t work. Googling ‘Aaron Evans‘ shows no sign of aarone.org. I’m still in their index; just search for aarone.org and this site shows up. I’ve seen Google leave me out [...]