Image by callumalden via Flickr In the nightclub scene at the start of an episode of Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld did a great bit about Morning Guy and Night Guy: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. “What about getting up [...]
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Archive for the ‘Random Ramblings’ Category
Five Things You Should Have Gotten Into Ten Years Ago
By Lee on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Google operates on geological time
By Lee on Saturday, August 21st, 2010 | No Comments
They consider a decade to be a short downtime. On the bright side, we’re over half-way through it. On January 1, 2005, AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 3:00 AM to January 1, 2015 3:00 AM Eastern Time due to system maintenance. Please note that your campaigns will continue to run normally during this [...]
Read More...Seeing the Milky Way in 3D
By Lee on Monday, August 16th, 2010 | No Comments
We just got back from Hilton Head Island, where we had four days and nights of awesome weather. We left about 12 hours too late (and drove home through torrential storms). But while we were there, we enjoyed some of the darkest black skies I ever remember seeing on the continental United States. The moon [...]
Read More...Mac leaves the top off the toothpaste
By Lee on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | No Comments
I ‘m one of those Windows-to-Mac guys. The transition was pretty painless, for the most part, since I’m a geek. And, for the most part, I’m happy with my MacBook Pro. But it’s got these irritating habits that I think are the technological equivalent of leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube. No Home, End, [...]
Read More...The end of an era
By Lee on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
I opened my Mindspring account in 1996. I was later than some, to the Internet party, though way ahead of most. (I was on Compuserve and Prodigy before Mindspring, but I was even a Usenet user back in the late 70′s and early 80′s.) But Earthlink blew it. They lost a customer of 15 years, [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Yet Another Web Framework Shoot-Out
By Lee on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 | No Comments
This is a really well done, albeit long, screencast comparing JSP, Rails, Zope (Plone), Turbo Gears, Django, and J2EE. It is entertaining, smart, and fun. It's also a great example of quality presentation techniques. And the final score is almost definitely going to surprise you. It took me over five months to get around to [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Jon Udell mentioned my software!
By Lee on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 | No Comments
I've always been a big fan of Jon Udell's InfoWorld column, but now I have an even bigger reason to appreciate Jon! It's also amazing to see what influence some people have. This small mention from Jon has brought me a significant stream of visitors! Thanks, Jon! Hopefully I can return the favor with this [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] This is a compound sentence, so should it end with a question mark?
By Lee on Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 | No Comments
I wrote the following to a colleague: Does he work out of his home, because it was a very generic sounding answering machine. But should I actually have written this: Does he work out of his home, because it was a very generic sounding answering machine? Read more….
Read More...[BlogEntry] My first chat with God
By Lee on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 | No Comments
Me: Wow, are you really Him? God: I'm glad you're impressed. I don't know whether or not I am Him. I am a computer.. Really. Me: Darn. God: Gosh. Me: Well, you've really spoiled the illusion. God: How about that. What makes you think I have it? Me: Have what? God: I have a great [...]
Read More...[BlogEntry] Writing the software to sell your software is a project in itself…
By Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 | No Comments
I'm in the midst of launching something pretty awesome. Of course, I'm not objective about it. But I think it's going to be a very welcome addition to your toolbox. I can tell you that I love having it when I need it. The thing is, the actual program has been operational for many months. [...]
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