Monthly Archives: October 2007

Nice quote for the times…

“You don’t know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” – Warren Buffet

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BrightRoll announces some good news

This is the company I work for and helped start. It is doing great. If you haven’t seen the news, we made two very significant press releases this week. The first piece of news is about the funding… we closed … Continue reading

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Ruby Singleton Classes

Ruby singleton classes, or anonymous classes are just a poor man’s prototypes.

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Ken Olsen was Right: We don’t need computers in the home

Back in the day, Ken Olsen, then CEO of Digital Equipment Corp. (or DEC), handled an interview badly and was quoted with the phrase: ["There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." ](http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp) What … Continue reading

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Carl Hewitt has a blog

Here it is.. Carl’s Blog

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Subclassing vs Interfaces

It is good to see that some old ideas are still kicking around. I’ve been reading more threads about people trying to recreate Genera, the old Symbolics lisp environment on a modern day cpu. Apparently, and unsurprisingly, the open source … Continue reading

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Nine Inch Nails – no longer under contract

Saw this on Techcrunch, of all places. I sense big changes in the record industry. Message from Trent

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LOLCATS – I get it

(this was written about a month ago, but its time to kick this and other articles out) Ok, lolcats – I’m late to the game, but I get it and I like them. I first saw a LOLCAT photo when … Continue reading

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