Monthly Archives: March 2008

Check this out Very creepy – all in flash – amazing. You can get a glimpse into the future with this. As the Jamaican woman in Wild Palms used to say… straight from Osaka

There seem to be quite a few of these videos on YouTube. link1 link2 link3 link4 link5 link6

Just recently, auctomatic was acquired by another company for around $5 million. This is not a bad exit for a Y combinator startup. My bet is that they bought the technology team more than the site itself, but that is … Continue reading →

that other people besides me feel that our government is a little out of hand in giving bankers, who took on enormous risks, free money, care of my tax dollars. Protesters at BearStearns Imagine if people in this country started … Continue reading →

I have too many posts queued up about MVC that I’ve been hoarding in my blog drafts. Rather than sit on these, I’m just going to post small ideas. The main theme is this: people really don’t understand MVC, and … Continue reading →

If you go to Yahoo Finance, and look at their tech ticker. The images look bad. Why? Well, like so many sites that have thumbnails… they don’t use the correct algorithm for proper bitmap scaling. The fix for this is … Continue reading →

giao mentioned last January that IE7 was a forced auto-update on February 12, 2008. I found this microsoft support article describing the effect it would have on IT admins. I cannot get a sense of how this is going so … Continue reading →

When I first arrived in the Bay Area, special people here had insane connectivity. It was not uncommon to hear about some ‘key engineer’ or CTO with two T1 lines running to their house. There was a lot of money, … Continue reading →