Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

Funny how quickly things change. Two years ago and none of...

Unicorns Are Real! | Wired Science from Wired.com

long day.  really long.

clearly, someone is bored.

Showtime : Dexter Official Site

just like to show some appreciation

For the last few years I’ve hosted various servers at Terra World, Inc. here in Kansas....

did someone say tornado?

yep, old school.

sitting in the car and seeing the top of...

b: Are we in Paris?
me: No.. . we're in Wichita.
b: but that's the Bending Tower of Paris!

Search engines, RollYo, Davenetics and...

Search engines, RollYo, Davenetics and more. Entrenched competition is tough to beat. You saw it...

Sweet baby blogging

scabulous domination.

If at First You Don't Succeed, You're in...

“What would I bitch about next?”

Bootstrapping your subscription based...

I had a great discussion over dinner about subscription based consumer applications with my lovely...

via adam.blog.heroku.com

Rails Kits - Ready-made Rails Billing Code

ec2 is slow

or is it just me?  compared to dedicated servers I’ve had in the past, ec2 just seems horribly...

gitrails.rb

“Actually if you have a thousand people going out launching...”
— Venture Voice: VV Show #40 -...

signup forms

anyone else noticing the trend of dropping the password confirmation field? vimeo does it, ran into...

BarCampKC - May 9-10 2008

so I hear this crackle yesterday evening, glance over and...

test results

from a recent project: Finished in 23.349331 seconds 705 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending Finished...

picking up a new mac today

and while creating the list of apps I needed to copy over “right away”, so I could still...

Deficiency needs must be met first. Once these are met,...

“Compare People is declining because it’s a very...”
— Futuristic Play by Andrew...

someone’s going to get fired.

except, it wasn’t delivered.  the guy knocked and ran...

Tulsa Ruby Workshop - April 26th 2008 - 10am...

programmer humor.

me: What are you working on?
Barry: A Hiland chocolate milk... I'm about 1/2 way done. :)
me: fries and crispy chicken wrap here. haven't started on the crispy chicken wrap yet, still figuring out the best way to unwrap it.
Barry: There's an easy method for that... don't go reinventing the wheel.

Illinois gas stations are just weird……

LinkedIn.com support request.  Anyone know a LinkedIn...

“Murdoch, jolly pirate that he is, reportedly sent Sulzberger...”
— Howell Raines on Rupert...

What I Learned From My Dad Who Taught Me How...

conversational marketing experiment

In late December of 2008 I registered a domain and tossed up a landing page collecting email...

“You can not build a *real* publishing business (as in tens...”
— Are ad networks for loser/weak...

not the first to market, competitor has...

You’d better have a hell of a marketing budget, because more features isn’t going to cut...

payment gateways

If you’re looking for a payment gateway, go with Braintree Payment Solutions.  They’re...

Colored candles.

Can someone say party time?

sr-71 blackbird engine test.  wicked.

“It’s not really how you start. It’s not about a...”

30 days of spam

877 emails per day.  36 per hour.  1 every minute and a half. To say the least, I’m thankful...

Need a way to befriend all of your...

Checkout TwitterBack: https://github.com/jdg/jdg-mashups/tree/master/twitterback A quick and easy...

I'm a code hoarder.

I admit it.  I’m a code hoarder.  I have tens of thousands of lines written in past personal...

caesar wondering how to get beneath the deck to find the ant...

Never seen this before.  I’m sure it’s old news...

just a quick note: I did, however, have the best birthday weekend ever.

“A feature that anyone can add is not a sustainable...”
— More on Blogs, The Long Tail...

Seth's Blog: Why bother having a resume?

iphone behavior

An interesting observation: since purchasing my iPhone in, November? of 2007 I’ve moved away...

time tracking

 So I just bought a copy of Stunt software’s “On the Job” time tracking app....

I'm having a quarter-life crisis.

… and it’s kind of annoying.  Today is my 25th birthday.  It’s time for a few...

“And unlike any blog I’ve ever tried to maintain in the past,...”
— Uh, why’s the official...