While I’ll give the iPhone a pass because it’s pretty cool and the battery actually holds up nicely, by and large I feel like cell phones are made for calling people. I don’t need it to play music–I’ve got an MP3 player for that. I don’t need it to get on the internet–I’ve got a […]
I could relate a fun story from last summer about 30+ Electronic Arts interns editing a collaborative spreadsheet at the same time (with such important columns as “Do you like things?”,”Are you wearing pants right now?”, and “Are you stuck at work right now?” popping up in real-time). Instead, I’ll relate something I just noticed […]
Even though there’s only two of us here at work (well, actually our first of two interns started yesterday… but they only work 20 hours a week), our acting CEO has asked if we want him to set up a 401k. I’d already gotten the ball rolling on a Roth IRA over at Zecco (paperwork […]
My friend Annie and I went to a BarCamp over the weekend. I’d never heard of them before, but it wasn’t too hard to talk me into an all night programming event. A BarCamp is sort of like a grass-roots conference where the participants are also the ones who present little mini-modules. […]
Unfortunately, the Flex RTE has been back-burnered for a bit while I work on more pressing things at work. I’m currently using YUI’s tabs for something, but don’t really like them… So I’ve been tinkering around with an alternate tab-like interface. The concept is somewhere in between tabs and an accordion structure. […]
I was reading an article over on the New York Times website and accidentally stumbled on one of the coolest features I’ve seen on a website. In the body of the article, you can double-click on any word and a definition will pop up–anything from “science” to “Web 2.0″ to “bubble.” This is the […]
