I’m a fan of history, as most of you know. I found this picture, and thought I would share:
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Credit where credit is due aka colophon
Thursday, December 18, 2008
In publishing, printers often append a description of the technical details of their tools, which they call a colophon. Now that the site design has settled down a little (don’t tell me you didn’t notice each and every change?), I thought I would give a little credit.
In the top right corner you see that email [...]
My Wishlist
Friday, December 12, 2008
It is my birthday month right now, and a lot of people have been asking me what I want (what a tough problem I know). Usually I just tell me mom to coordinate everything, and she probably will still. To help, though, I created a wish list using a service called BoxedUp. It seems pretty [...]
LoudNClear: TV Ads in a recession
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I was watching House the other day and an ad for something called LoudNClear came on the TV. The device, which looks like a bluetooth headset, amplifies sound, sort of like a hearing aid for a regular person. These are some of the amazing uses cited in the commercial:
never miss out when the bingo person [...]
Opendor.org releases
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I just finished a quick site for my Rabbi back home, and it is now live. Check it out: opendor.org
Ads on my site: Who am I kidding?
Monday, December 8, 2008
Every blogger needs to decide whether they should put ads up on their site, from famous Jeff Atwood to your regular, everyday Citizen Jake.
The arguments for ads seem obvious. Basically they boil down to money is good. I’m all for money, so I can get behind this.
The arguments against are slightly more complex, but equally [...]
A quick overview of the new site
Monday, December 1, 2008
As I mentioned, I am now hosting the site myself, rather than host it on wordpress.com’s servers. The driving force in my decisions was largely technical; basically, by hosting the site, I get a whole set of features on a variety of my projects that I lacked. The biggest is called Subversion, which I use [...]
Writing on the back of my hand
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I was sitting in this training course the other day and felt weird taking out my phone, so I wrote something on the back of my hand. I can’t remember the last time I did that. Now, I email myself, or text myself, or write it in my phone’s notepad.
My friend Jake actually texts me, [...]
Handling the unexpected as a public transit user
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I got sick yesterday but thought it had gone away. Today, at work, I realized that I was still sick and that I should go home. Luckily for me, walking made me feel better, so I didn’t mind the walk to the bus and from the bus to my apartment. If I had been in [...]
Election Day!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
I know what you are thinking: “Sam, two posts in one day?”. You got it. That I am posting twice within just a few hours should demonstrate the import of today.[*]
So here, in America, it is election day. In fact, I just came from my polling place over on Melrose and Denny. My first presidential [...]