June 2010
May 2010
Fringe + Hulu + Internet = Fun
I watched a few episodes of the first season of Fringe, but soon lost interest. I got a strong “they’re just making shit up as they go along” vibe and found the characters, especially the female lead, flat and boring. Then a few weeks ago, my pal Steve Benen said that Fringe was getting really, really good. So I went and subscribed to it on Hulu. After watching the season finale,...
“I
wish I would have had the foresight to hire someone to have continued ...”
– Allan Odgaard proving once again the failure of the “I’ll just rebuild it from scratch” strategy in software development. I’ll bet that if he had spent the past 2 years refactoring TM 1.0 instead, he’d also have a “very solid code base which has good...
“What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses...”
– Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
“A Viacom VP even complained about the “fucking assholes” at...”
– “F—- those motherf—-ers”: YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty
“Unless we are open to new ideas, and not just new packaging, we won’t change...”
– Barack Obama, 4 years before he used old ideas to preserve all the entrenched interests that are the legacy of a jerry-rigged health care system.
“There was also a more general belief that, after Obama won the 2004 United...”
– The Political Scene: Making It : The New Yorker
“Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not...”
– Understand The Web · Ben Ward
“If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts...”
– A New Law that Will Change the Way You Build Database Applications 