I came accross one of those annoying sites yesterday that refused to serve pages to me because I was using firefox. (Even more annoying since I didn't happen to notice any activex junk). So I told firefox to spoof Internet Explorer. It appeared to work until firefox came crashing down …

One of my favorite pastimes is playing Ultimate. But sometimes you just can round up enough people to play ultimate. When you don't have enough people or field space for ultimate, goaltimate is a viable alternative. It is played on a smaller field with 4on4 instead of 7 on 7 …

I've found myself using chat support twice over the last week. (Which is kind of weird since I helped develop an online chat system a few years back and almost went to work for a online chat provider....) Anyway, one was useful, this one less so (I'm referring to the …

Kudos to Google for actually being forward thinking enough to release client software for linux. One problem.... I guess my Thinkpad is a little underpowered for this app. It is way too SLOW! Painful and annoying to use. (Plus the fonts are ugly!) I guess I'm back to google maps …

My sister started a blog recently. I'm very proud of her (and glad that she isn't using myspace). She's even Web 2.0ey, cause she does things like youtube. I guess I'm just outdated. She has posted a video of my brother John playing with mentos and diet coke.

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Long time no post. Been busy with a few things. One of them was moving to Utah. We were deliberating on how to move our belongings from California to Utah. Do the Uhaul thing and pull one of our cars? Pay for movers to do everything and just drive accross …

I was able to head up to my alma matter and attend most of Startup School today. Here's my "gems", I tried to note the themes that were common:

Joe Kraus (Jotspot)

• Persistance Pays - (See Paul Graham below too)
• "No false positives" - Will reject a number of possibly good candidates …

I've been asked to throw together some impromptu sessions on python for some developers at work. So I'm asking the lazy (python) web what would/have they do/done? My current plan is to be in a lab-type enviroment (everyone will have a laptop/desktop). All attendees are already developers …

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Caught this gem lurking on the Portage-dev mailing list. If you are doing a code audit of python code you would do well to follow these tips (courtesty Brian Harring, ex-gentoo dev). Sprinkle that with unittests, pymetrics and pychecker and you could have some fun spring cleaning …

So there's a new "camp". Bootcamp. Come down to Cupertino for a day or two and mix and mingle with a hip crowd of others who want to install web2.0 operating systems on their hardware.... Oh wait, call me when they have XenOfAppleCamp.