July 2007
39 posts
“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.”
– Thomas Jefferson from 37signals
Humans fend off AI challenge in "milestone" poker...
It apparently wasn’t easy, but a pair of top human poker players managed to narrowly beat a brash young artificial intelligence program yesterday in a poker match scientists had touted as a “milestone” comparable to Garry Kasparov’s 1997 bout with the IBM’s chess-playing Deep Blue. According to the AFP, the four-round match stretched on until 11pm, with poker players...
The new Backpack is live →
I’ve been using backpack as a personal organizer for a while now. The new features look pretty sweet.
Yahoo's YSlow Plug-in Tells You Why Your Site is...
Stoyan writes “Steve Souders, performance architect at Yahoo, announced today the public release of YSlow — a Firefox extension that adds a new panel to Firebug and reports page’s performance score in addition to other performance-related features. Here is a review plus helpful tips how to make the scoring system match your needs. Read more of this story at Slashdot. (via...
“Real Life, also known as ‘that big room with the ceiling that is...”
– from A Girls Guide to Geeks
Mike Trotzke: Game night, my house at 8pm (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
bash.org quote database find
hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******
thats what I see
oh, really?
Absolutely
you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
haha, does that look funny to you?
lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
awesome!
wait, how do you know my pw?
er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
oh, ok.
Game Night
Bets and I have been getting a lot of questions like ‘When is game night?’ or ‘What are you playing this week?’, etc. So we’ve put together a little site and schedule complete with descriptions of what we will be playing. You can bookmark it at:
http://trotzke.backpackit.com/pub/1168144 If you use a calender program that supports the ical format you can also subscribe from the above page. This...
Next Ubuntu LTS Release In 2008 (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) →
Mark Shuttleworth has just announced during his keynote at Ubuntu Live 2007 that the next Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release will be Ubuntu 8.04.
Mike Trotzke: on my way to Cleavland. Umm it…uhh Rocks? (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
An open letter to people who wear Bluetooth... →
from 37signals
Walk Score →
At least my office has a decent walk score.
New X-Files Movie →
summer 2008 release
What's "beta"?
hey, girl! You’re one of the first to check out BarbieGirls.com ! Cool, huh? Right now we’re in “beta,” which means we’re still working on the site to make it even better. Some stuff might change, and some things are still being fixed. But we’ll be done soon! -Barbie Girls finally explains beta to little girls. It’s also growing faster than the little girls who are signing up.
“A Slimmy can help,but you have to want to change.”
The ultimate iPod anti-theft device -- Hide it in... →
Welcome to the Anti-Social. Protect your iPod or iPhone from theft and still enjoy using it in public. Put it in a Hide-a-Pod anti-theft case, made out of a real Zune. Well, at least some Apple fanboys have a sense of humor. Or is this for real?
Mike Trotzke: top of the world. Ghost bar at the palms. (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
Mike Trotzke: Hanging at rain at the palms (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
vosnap snaps
So vosnap didn’t quite make it out the door. I saw some screen shots. Looks like they just took on more than they needed for version 1 (charts and graph, etc.) and ended up missing their window. Well… and they decided to use Java. Why does over engineering in Java seem to be a trend. Is it because being pure OO it seems to attract academics? I’ve used the language quite a bit and it seemed fine....
Digg iPhone Beta Live! →
“Last weekend Joe Stump, Daniel Burka, and I sat down and white-boarded the Digg iPhone app. I told Joe if he coded it in 48hrs, I’d buy him an iPhone. Needless to say, he got it done (nice work, Joe).”
Mike Trotzke: No game night tonight… heading to Vegas in the morning. Battle of the Bands at the Bird at 10 is a good alternative. (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
Jeffrey Zeldman: "Maybe" is one option too many →
Why 5-star rating systems should be replaced with 4-star systems.
WatchYes, design can make you happy from Stefan Sagmeister. I particularity like the list of things he has learned. I keep a list like this… many of the same things on it.
VoSnap
http://startupweekend.com/ So this group is creating an startup in one weekend called VoSnap. Guess what idea they picked to develop? A group decision making tool. It might finally fulfill the ‘lunchomatic’ dream. I’ve been wanting to make a tool to help us at the office pick out and communicate a daily lunch spot. We called the idea the lunchomatic. In my slowness a couple of guys in the office...
Mike Trotzke: Transformers at 3:30 (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
Mike Trotzke: Playing with me iphone (via Twitter / Mike Trotzke)
US man sculpts cheese presidents | BBC News →
I love cheese
Apple Developer Connection - Web Development for... →
Sweet let the dev that has already started begin
Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs →
I’m always looking for some good designs to steal— err inspire me
Tumblr comments
—- Sorry to friends reading, you can ignore this post ——- Marco says here: “Tumblr reblogs and additional posts are viewed by the complete audiences of at least three websites, and more people have been involved in the conversation. “ Sounds great… but it’s not. I had to read his post 3 times just to figure out what the heck he was talking about....
WatchMy gift to you. This will get you rich.
68 SEO Tools →
Useful list of links to keyword, link and usability tools
President Bush's Secret Self-Doubt: How will... →
President Bush is holding sessions that are not listed on his public schedule and remain largely unknown even to many on his staff. He’s asking questions like: Why does the rest of the world seem to hate America? Or is it just me they hate?
Zend Framework 1.0.0 Production Released →
Zend Framework is now the best class library available for PHP 5 web application development. It is an open source project that provides solutions to solve frequent needs of web application developers, including the following areas: Powerful MVC, Database access solutions, Advanced I18N support, Robust authentication/authorization, and many more.