January 2008
18 posts
“The treatment did not cure his eating problem - but he experienced vivid...”
– Yes! Sign me up, please! Please?! Um, what was the question?
Stanford Prison Experiment vs Abu Ghraib
There was a fascinating piece on CBC’s morning show featuring an interview with Philip Zimbardo of the famed Stanford Prison Experiment. The interview (audio .ram), consisted of Mr. Zimbardo comparing the original horrorifying Stanford Prison Experiment with what happend at Abu Ghraib. My impression of listening to the interview while driving to work was that the guards at Abu Ghraib...
MY XO (OLPC) Laptop Might Not Be Coming
It seems the OLPC project has a shabby backend. I’ve had worse customer service with companies whose goals weren’t as lofty. I’m willing to wait patiently, but I wouldn’t order another until this is sorted out. Go OLPC! Get it together. Update: I called the recommended phoneline & they said mine, shipping to Canada - paid via paypal, would come by the end of Feb....
“A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he...”
– Fail
Scientist becomes first man to clone HIMSELF
Wow. A scientist has achieved a world first… by cloning himself. In a breakthrough certain to provoke an ethical furore, Samuel Wood created embryo copies of himself by placing his skin cells in a woman’s egg. The embryos were the first to be made from cells taken from adult humans. Although they survived for only five days and were smaller than a pinhead, they are seen as a...
Tom Cruise Uncut: The Freedom Medal Award Ceremony →
You’ve seen this crazy shite, right?
My New Company: Inevitable
This was far overdue, but I’ve moved from a sole proprietorship to an Inc. My new company is called Inevitable, as in ‘the inevitable corporation’, for two reasons. One was that I was inevitably going to do it. The other is that my loving and supportive Wife has always assured me through the rough times that we’d make it inevitably. Hrmmm, maybe I should have called it...
Outsourcing & Testing Elance
I’ve posted my first job at elance.com. One of two interesting tidbits in The Four Hour Work Week was outsourcing jobs. I want the osdir.com logo freshened up. It hasn’t really changed since my O’Reilly days. I’m also updating the tag line from Stable Open Source Apps to better reflect what has been the site’s focus for at least a year. No hint, sorry. My work...
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And we're back....
Maybe it’s just the minimalist themes available, but I’ve moved fooworks to tumblr… in my opinion the easiest & nicest to use hosted blog service.