I know his pain

Don't do this. No standardized build process = nightmare.

Nice Analogy

Software shops are like restaurants?

Hype-peedos Away!

Move over Ruby, there's something trendier!

You should read this post...maybe later.

A great post on, as he puts it "productivity pr0n," from Mr. Netscape himself, Marc Andreessen.

Software Interviewing Patterns

Gone on an interview lately? I have experienced several of these before, but thankfully not recently.

Debugging is Magic!

This is the best analogy for solving coding bugs that I have seen.

Headhunters 101

This is a fabulous overview of recruiters and they tricks they sometimes play. I have experienced several of these myself.

Problems with the Future of Warfare

This is an interesting take on the risks of the bleeding edge of our military technology.

Pretty Much Sums It Up...

This chat log deconstructs the "hacker" stereotype from the movies. Totally awesome... I need to go hack my toaster now.

Behind the Curtain

Here is Some insider info about the Google work environment for engineers, from a Microsoft engineer that worked at both Google and Microsoft. Interesting comparisons...

Pay for Play

I found this post to be one of the better analyses of the current state of political affairs.

The Tale of J. Random Newbie

Nice analysis here... I can't decide whether the alternative is any better.

Excellent Demo of Photosynth

This video is a slick demo of the Photosynth application. I really wonder how automatic the process is...I guess I better dig up the papers our of the ACM Digital Library.

Selling Security Bugs?

See now sleazy the security world is getting. This article confirms a suspicion that I have had for some time that the security/antivirus/antispyware industry no longer has users' best interests in mind.

Ze Frank Interview

Here is an excellent interview with Ze Frank where he discusses the creative process.

The Linux desktop enviroment: SNAFU

Apparently the Fedora project is going back to mixing and matching Gnome and KDE apps? Sigh... this mishmash of semi-effective GUI apps is why I got a Mac.

Big vs. Small

This is a hilarious comparison of working at Google to working at Meetup. It's an excellent analysis of the Big Company vs. Little Company experience as well. I like the "socialization" undertone in the list as well.

Tanny Got SERVED!

Rob Pike lays down the OS design smack on Andrew Tannenbaum.

The Upcoming Digital Media Clusterf**k

Gizmodo has an excellent survey of the upcoming "diskless" future of digital movies. Eventually, a few players in the space will win out...at least we can watch the infighting while we wait for actual movies.

The Problem with CMM

This is an interesting critique of the Capability Maturity Model. A few years ago, I was obsessed by the idea of making an organization hit level 5, now I think of it as being banished to limbo.

Picture me rollin'

Stephen Hawking rode the vomit comet. Now if he will just rap about it.

Adobe Flex goes Open Source

Abobe is making the toolchain for Adobe Flex available under the Mozilla License. Sweetness.
Adobe Labs has other coolness as well.

Greetings from Orbit

After a long hiatus, I figured that it might be nice to create a little blog to track all of the weird links I run across from day to day. I can't guarantee any unifying theme other than what piques my interest.

Enjoy.