Joel Spolsky has a new Inc. article online now, about how he was kind of forced into implementing middle management at Fog Creek Software, the company he co-founded and runs. I must admit, I greeted the title of the article with some skepticism. Like him, I have unpleasant memories of middle managers. I worked for …
Continue reading ‘“How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers”’ »
I like this review, especially the somewhat-snarky paragraph at the end: All in all, IE 8 beta 2 sucks a lot less than one might expect, given IE6 and IE7. It feels like the product is truly catching up to the current state of the browser art, and the fact that my brother-in-law will get …
Continue reading ‘“Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2’s (Familiar) New Features”’ »
The DMCA (the Draconian Media Clobbering Act… sorry, I mean the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has been used for some pretty jaw-droppingly stupid things since it was passed. This is just one of them, but it’s an important one, because the court just told copyright holders that they will be punished if they demand that …
Continue reading ‘“Dancing Baby v. Universal: Baby wins!”’ »
I ran across this quote on the Tools For Thought blog (which is rapidly becoming a new favorite of mine): From the film Roger Dodger: Nick: Like, what do you do all day? Roger: What do I do all day? I sit here and think of ways to make people feel bad. Nick: I thought …
I’ve only been back on the Getting Things Done (GTD) wagon for one week now, and I’m simply awed at how much I’ve gotten done, and on how many different things. Although I’d been using GTD before, it’s now painfully obvious that I wasn’t using it properly. In my earlier attempts, I never quite grasped …
My friend Ploni Almoni crows that Apple “ranks 85 out of 100.” That’s nice Ploni, but honestly, they hardly have any competition in that arena. 😉
The head of Project Badger (at the much larger company that bought it a few years ago) recently moved on to other duties in the company. We talked briefly just before he did, and he said that he’d learned a lot from me. I was startled, but I figured that was just a stock corporate-speak …
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin. — Stephen Bayne
At the end of my last iPod Touch entry, I mentioned that I was going to try jailbreaking the Touch so I could load music onto it from Linux, instead of relying on a VMware Windows machine. I did so. Everything seemed to work with no problem, but after I loaded any song into it, …
Continue reading ‘iPod Touch, Part IV: Apple Screws Linux Users Again’ »
If you have any sympathy at all for Microsoft, you’ve gotta wince at this story. It’s not the first time something like that has happened either… on a trip to Toronto a few years ago, I saw an absolutely HUGE electronic billboard — which was showing a gigantic Windows error message-box instead of the ads …