Month: July 2004

A black hole theory zapped. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking yesterday conceded he was wrong about a long-held idea about black holes, backing off a theory that had raised the tantalizing possibility that the collapsed stars were swallowing information and sending it to alternate universes. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

State & Local Government on the Net. Check out this directory of the websites of state agencies and city and county governments. You can browse the directory by state, and the counties & cities, or you can browse by topic (such as legislature, jobs, & libraries). … [LibrarianInBlack]

aggregator with a tivo touch. Spent a little bit of time on my code today, still not sleeping all the way through the night without a painkiller so I kept my coding sesion short 🙂 Here's what I have running now, 2 folders on my desktop, one is named subscriptions and whenever I want to… Continue reading aggregator with a tivo touch

Porting Visual Basic to REALbasicREAL Software has published a guide for porting Visual Basic applications to Linux and Mac OS X using REALbasic, which is compatible with all three platforms. “Visual Basic and REALbasic are very similar, so Visual Basic users quickly become familiar with REALbasic,” said Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software,… Continue reading Porting Visual Basic to REALbasic

Inside Look at Birth of the IPod. A former manager of the company tasked with making the hit device tells of the glitches that almost killed it, how Apple strained to keep it secret and how Steve Jobs molded it to his liking. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Sveasoft; Open Source or What?. Broadband Reports is hosting a debate on their Linksys forum, whether or not Sveasoft violates the GPL – or perhaps an unspoken open source code of ethics – by charging for their modified third-party Linksys firmware. Sveasoft this week closed their public forums and gone on the offensive after an… Continue reading Sveasoft; Open Source or What?

Grateful for Notes and Ghosts. Last week my laptop hard drive crashed; I mean it really crashed. Somehow while working at a client's crowded desk I managed to get my foot caught in the power cord. As I got up from the desk and walked away I not only pulled my laptop onto the concrete… Continue reading Grateful for Notes and Ghosts

Eric Sink: 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. Eric Sink's Marketing for Geeks (pdf), is an excellent commentary on the book 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, from a software developer's perspective. Eric's wisdom is hard earned. He appears to have made every mistake inside and outside the book, and lived to tell about it. When entrepreneurs… Continue reading Eric Sink: 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Charles Cameron sent me a very cool note on the type of people needed for an intelligence skunk works: My own take is that mental flexibility (the capacity to rapidly reframe a situation through a dozen diverse contexts) would be part of it is the key resource here, and that the opposite of it, whether… Continue reading Charles Cameron