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An interesting observation. One of the cool features of blog city is that you can view statistics for your blog, which includes websites that refer to your blog. Interestingly enough if you search for "Dick Proenneke" my blog appears on page 3. In the UK it is the first entry …

It's pretty amazing how the internet enables people to work together. Tim O'Reilly has dubbed this the Architecture of Participation. Just the other day I made an entry in wikipedia. Wikipedia has this really cool feature where you can see all of the edits to a page and do a …

Above is a graph illustrating the much blogged about long tail. It starts steep on the left side, continues through burnination and tapers off after a while to a little point.

I was talking with an acquaintance the other day and he was was telling me of a box business …

More thoughts on competition... Justin Gehtland's blog where he mentions his delvings into Ruby on Rails was slashdotted today.

Here is a Java author (he wrote a book about the Spring Framework), jumping ship and advocating the use of Ruby for web development. I'm not really a Ruby person, but …

Coming soon...

Note - This is a migration of content from my old blog.

It looks like the report mentioned by Guido is now available. It meantioned that {"programmers are 5 times more productive when using "P" languages"}

Here is a writeup on the report. On a side note, I've been playing around …

So I'm going to take the Rocbox back. I should think twice before buying a first generation item from a vendor (even if the price is right).

There were a few things that I liked about it:

• The feel of the buttons on the front (they click well like an …

People complain that their favorite app isn't ported to Linux, but when such an app is ported they complain. With the recent release of Nero cd burning software for linux, I've read a few gripes like why Nero used gtk+, is it free (as in gratis)?, why even release it …

Ok, if anyone is reading this, I thought I might share some investigative work. So after a quick attempt to copy music over to the rocbox failed, I started searching on google for any help. Nothing turned up.... So I looked at the db files on the rocbox and googled …

Just finished watching an interesting autobiography of Dick Proenneke on public television. He wanted to spend a year alone in Alaska (at the age of 51), living off the land and hand tools (he made a cabin). His cabin was amazing. He ended up living there for 30 years. Felt …