I just bought TextMate. It cost me about $50. I’ve realized that I’ve been buying software at a pretty high rate since I started making money. When I look back, some of my purchases were quite regrettable. Here are my thoughts: SubEthaEdit: nice text editor, wouldn’t have bought it if I had [...]
What a great book! I had read some of the GOF Design Patterns book but feel like I understood only some of the patters well enough to use them. Sure, everybody can create a singleton class, but when should you use a decorator and what’s do you give up in the process? From [...]
A Microsoft employee calls for the firing of top-level managers and many Microsoft employees agree. The comments are very telling; they detail a buearocratic mess the sits above them. Seems like there are a staggering number of hurdles between coding something and getting it incorporated into a repository. Even worse, the employees [...]
Google’s got a real finance site! No more stupid ’symbol lookup’, just search for the company name. Nor more stupid ‘browse by sector’, just search for the sector and find companies. Charts are done in Flash and are completely fluid. Sweet!
I don’t believe it but it’s true. Looks like I’ll be an XM Satellite customer.
The lecture is available for viewing as either video or plain text. My favorite part is this:I know that President Bush has many extremely competent speech writers but I would like to volunteer for the job myself. I propose the following short address which he can make on television to the nation. I see [...]
I always thought that the people who leased vehicles were those who couldn’t afford to finance and that leasing was a bit like using a credit card to pay for something you really can’t afford. Well, I’m buying a car soon so I thought I’d compare the cost of leasing versus financing: Let’s compare the [...]
Phillip Seymour Hoffman should win something for Capote.
It’s been on The New York Times best seller list for 29 weeks and I now know why. Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat provides an explanation of the factors that led to globalization and discusses the implications of globalization upon the U.S. Given the success of the book, my bet is that [...]