In the past 2 weeks, 6 of my friends have asked me to teach them how to “make a website”. I absolutely love teaching, especially when I have the opportunity to enlighten regular people about the field I work in. I searched around the web to find some good tutorial. I did find the tutorials, [...]
I had an idea for a website that would let you reflect on your day. I call it todaywas, and the idea would be to say, very quickly, if you had a good or a bad day. You would of course be able to look at what you had entered over time with cool visual [...]
Some of my friends are travelling around the world, and rather than mass-email everyone, they write blogs. A lot of the readers of those blogs don’t yet use Google Reader, and so the writers of the blog want a way to have their friends sign up for emails. Here’s how.
You should be able to set [...]
They say the first step is admitting you have a problem, and I need to admit one. I am addicted to my cell phone. On Friday night T-Mobile apparently stopped working in my area of Seattle. I could not text, nor could I make or receive calls. It was devastating. I’ve never felt so separated [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the challenge I faced when trying to make a relatively simple software application. On the one hand, the idea seemed simple and relatively trivial. On the other, it turned out to be technically difficult to implement. Those two ways of looking at a problem separate two jobs at my office,1 the [...]
Earlier I told you about an idea I had, which I call Blog Rewind, that would allow you to read or export a blog’s archives in a convenient way. I got some positive feedback on the idea, and so I wanted to explore it further. So I spent a few days thinking, reading and writing, [...]
My parents came to visit this week and my father told me this cool story, which I will share with you. He’s a lawyer at a firm in DC called Robbins Russell currently working on a large and complex bankruptcy case. Specifically, his firm represents a group of creditors suing some other creditors on behalf [...]
Like all thing on Ted, this video of Jill Bolte Taylor is so cool. In the video, the brain scientist describes having a stroke. I particularly like how she switches from describing the events scientifically and also as she felt them. She gets a little spiritual for me at the end, but then again I [...]
About 3 days after my prediction that better web creation software is on the way, I heard about Weebly, which claims to do just that. I poked around and it looks like the drag-and-drop interface is pretty intuitive. The site, aimed at non-technical users, lets you choose your own design, add content, and publish, all [...]
I found this cool site over the weekend called ChaCha which lets you get answer quickly, either by texting or calling them. It knows the things you might expect, like the weather and stock information, but you can ask it anything. Some examples they use include:
Who is the richest man in the world?
How many ounces are [...]