Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on September 12, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Recently mentioned to me (paraphrased):
My boss is pretty kickass. They just hired him not too long ago The previous guy they had here told them we could do the Oracle Migration in a year, with half our staff. That’s completely untrue. He told the board that the guy had led them astray, but he [...]
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on September 11, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Scott posted a rebuttal of sorts to what I wrote about Gaming 2.0.
I think he’s missing the underlying point I was wanting to make.
People will always act according to their self interest.
The social networking site as we know it would completely change. Yes, now the community can stop “spammers” because they self-regulate and bury [...]
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on September 10, 2006 | 3 Comments »
There are a lot of articles on Digg about gaming Digg, but instead of focusing on gaming Digg everyone should think about this as an inherent flaw in the socially driven sites on the web. I’ll use Digg as an example in this post.
People will always act in their self interest.
Most of [...]
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on September 10, 2006 | Comments Off
In the first month of Google Reader’s release, I made a huge mistake.
I subscribed to all of MXNA, Sun Bloggers, and MSDN all via OPML. Translation? I added way too many feeds to my reader. So many, it’d almost crash Firefox—and there was no bulk removal ability.
Today I gave the guys at Reader another [...]
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on September 8, 2006 | 2 Comments »
My favorite restaurant. Period.
I really wish their website was as easy to use as their menu:
Check it from RIGHT to LEFT.
Along with the restaurant’s flow, their menu is brilliant. Instead of having, what, six billion menu selections(?) they have 5 choices to make for what you want as your main dish.
Quick and efficient, [...]
Posted in Personal, tagged Geek, Personal on September 8, 2006 | 6 Comments »
SQLyog will make you wish you never used phpMyAdmin except in instances that you couldn’t install software.
The only question: how do you pronounce it? Derek G. and I came to a conclusion.
[9:30:39 AM] ahill> this SQL utility kicks the siht out of myadmin
[9:31:12 AM] derek G> no kidding, running queries is so quick and easy
[9:41:06 [...]
Posted in Personal, tagged Personal on September 1, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Aside from one two hour nap, and one twenty minute nap, I went from 6am Wednesday until 12:30am Friday with no sleep.
I didn’t think I could do that anymore.
Oh well, it was worth it.
