April 27, 2008 at 4:38 pm · Filed under General
According to the
Yahoo Finance Article Mr. Bush says:
“The money is going to help Americans offset the high prices we’re seeing at the gas pump, the grocery store, and also give our economy a boost to help us pull out of this economic slowdown,” Bush said.
Interesting…
I wonder if the dollar hadn’t been systematically devalued by his administration, maybe we wouldn’t need
this stimulus? How many 100’s of billions have been lost versus the income that will be generated
by the simulus package? Where is this money coming from anyways?
Very interesting…
Notice how the media is holding off on anticipating any more rate cuts? Why? Inflation, that is why.
I can’t wait until I get my stimulus check…
April 27, 2008 at 3:11 pm · Filed under General
Nice design
(which reminds me, I need to redo this site sometime soon)
April 25, 2008 at 2:10 pm · Filed under General
About a week and a half ago, I had a bike commute issue. I got a flat tire on my rear tire
before I arrived at the train. I didn’t have a spare. I didn’t have any tools. I had just
enough time to walk the bike to the train.
After I was on my way, I started wondering about how much it would cost to fix the tire.
I remembered that there was a bike shop at the station, but I was dreading going there.
Typically, bike shops eat you alive with the service cost on a bike like mine. Most bike
shops tend to get really snotty about commuters and their non-high end rides. A typical
repair of a tire would cost $50. Compare this to the cost of my bike: $15. Compare
this to the cost of fixing my Honda Pilot’s tire: $0.
Well, I walked into the shop when I arrived in San Francisco, and I was prepared for the
worst. I had no other options.
Wow!
The guy showed me the rates. $10 to fix a flat AND I could leave the bike there and pick
it up later! Why is it strange to be surprised about that? One of their products is bike storage, and I
thought they might need a fee for that. None. IN FACT, they don’t charge for bike
storage AT ALL (for 2 days of storage!!). I did a double take… I thought that was
their business. This is no ordinary bike shop/facility!
Oh yeah, and they were nice people too! No issues or attitudes. I told them about the crowding
on Caltrain in the bike car, and the guy was completely sympathetic. He told me that
Caltrain is under a lot of stress and it is only getting worse. Very easy going.
Now imagine getting a flat in your car or breaking down on the highway and the Pro-Bono Towing
Service came by and just helped you out for $10 instead of the normal $125 hit.
(Imagine if Health Care in this country was this way… supported by a caring community!)
Anyways, I took the MUNI to work. I came back by around 6:00 PM. The bike was fixed.
They adjusted the rear brake perfectly (bonus!). They capped some of my frayed, uncapped
cables (bonus!). Wow!!
I was saved by Warm Planet Bikes at the 4th and King
Caltrain Station. They rock, they are great, they are fantastic!
Also, I’m going to join the SF Bicycle Coalition. They helped make this happen,
I want to support their efforts to help all bike riders.
April 25, 2008 at 1:21 pm · Filed under General
He understands my old pain…
Real-life use case: let’s say you’re a programmer who writes in C++. You will, of course, spend most of your working day playing Solitaire and reading reddit, because C++ is too goddamned stupid to do anything but gigantic, slow batch compiles of the entire dependency universe.
Yegge on OS X - Focus Follow Mouse
April 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm · Filed under General
scooter media
Originally uploaded by drudru
I was biking on the Embarcadero, and then I saw this small train of scooters with ads on the back. They had stickers on the scooters
that said ‘Scooter Media’. They were showing these mini-billboards of Stella Artois beers. This was on the embarcadero, after work,
not anywhere close to ad:tech, etc.
I wonder what the CPM was for this advertising? Who would fund or what agency would buy this type of advertising?
I know this, though. Whenever I think it is too hard to convince and advertiser at BrightRoll, I can look back at this.
April 12, 2008 at 1:48 pm · Filed under General
Firefox is the most developer friendly browser.
One feature I use all the time, but is not very well known is the
Firefox profiles feature.
Essentially, I have different shortcut icons set up on my taskbar to start
different Firefox browser windows that have completely different cookie, add-on,
and configuration setups. For example, I can have one Firefox window for general
browsing and my personal account. In another browser, I can have a test account
with test cookies and settings. If I didn’t have this, I would have to resort
to using a virtual machine or some other system that would add a tremendous
amount of overhead.
April 10, 2008 at 12:54 pm · Filed under General
Just a heads up, Tod, the CEO of our company,
BrightRoll, (a video ad company), posted a nice small article about some of the myths about video advertising…
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