From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Management Decision Making Tool

by Ron Bieber on Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Management Decision Making Tool

Photo by rbieber

I keep this on my desk just in case someone needs me to make a decision.

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April 29, 2008

99 Designs
Crowdsourcing Design Work. Found via StackOverflow.com
(tags: crowdsourcing design services)

Another Way to Classify Twitter Users | sarahintampa
Ways to classify Twitter users …
(tags: twitter)

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April 27, 2008

Leonard McCoy: He’s Dead Jim & I’m a Doctor
Montages of Star Treks McCoy with his trademark phrases “He’s Dead Jim” and “I’m a Doctor …”. Awesome.
(tags: startrek video quotes)

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April 26, 2008

Beautiful Soup – Python HTML Parser
“You didn’t write that awful page. You’re just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don’t really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser. “
(tags: python parsers html tools libraries)

Student ‘Twitters’ his way out of Egyptian jail
“James Karl [...]

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Pessimism

April 26, 2008

Photo by rbieber

Reads “Sometimes the glass is more than half empty.”

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April 24, 2008

Lead Architect Blaine Cook Out At Twitter
“I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It’s an amicable change; Twitter’s architecture is at a good point for them to pursue stability and growth”
(tags: twitter news)

Kigg Starter Kit : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
Digg Clone for .NET
(tags: digg asp.net dotnet vc)

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April 22, 2008

JoeBees Natural Bee Pollen
Bee Pollen is supposed to give you more energy. This was a recommendation from Jonna.
(tags: energy pollen bees pills)

AGILE IN ACTION: Kent Beck on being agile
“Agile development isn’t a thing you do. It’s an attitude. It’s a set of personal values about responding to the real world, being open to [...]

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April 21, 2008

Red Hat, Novell: desktop Linux an enterprise thing—for now
Red Hat and Novell concentrating on Enterprise Linux now, not desktop for consumer.
(tags: linux enterprise desktop)

AGILE IN ACTION: Challenges for the Product Stream concept
The Product Stream concept is a simple one. A product stream contains a self-organising team and a Product Owner, yet it engages with the [...]

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Who IS Next?

April 20, 2008

Photo by rbieber
The next four pictures are the kids shot at trying to do a "who’s next" album cover.

This was taken in August of 2007 on the “Grandma Tour”. The kids decided they would try their take at a random pose “Who’s Next” album cover like picture.
We took a number [...]

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The Great American Novel

April 19, 2008

Just received my Amazon shipment of The Great American Novel by Keith Malley (host of Keith and the Girl). I’ve been looking forward to reading this for a while.

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Chalk Outline

April 18, 2008

Ron’s most popular picture of the day on Flickr as of April 18, 2008. Who would ever figure?

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April 16, 2008

[MOD] LDAP Integration – Pligg Forum
LDAP Integration for the Pligg content management system.
(tags: pligg content-management ldap)

Cruise Overview – Cruise – ThoughtWorks Studios
Cruise is a continuous integration and release management system that enables teams to quickly and confidently release their code from development to production.
(tags: continuousintegration development)

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April 14, 2008

4 Steps to Defeating the Urge to Smoke
“Between the physical addiction to nicotine, and the mental associations that tie what seems like all of our activities to cigarettes, it can feel as though we’re chained to the habit with links of steel.”
(tags: quitting-smoking nicontine addiction)

10 Tips for Quitting Smoking
“recently celebrated my one-year anniversary of quitting [...]

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Smokeblogging: Smoking Update for March

April 12, 2008

I’ve been having a really rough time over the last week keeping myself from smoking. I still haven’t, but it has been a real struggle.
What is worse though, is that when I mention this to people I get a response a lot like this tweet from Chris Jones via Twitter:

@rbieber [...]

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Picasso On Learning

April 12, 2008

Found this quote from Picasso on Twiiter from @LeMec (the_mindstorm) and really liked it:

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Picasso

Sounds a lot like a quote that I have in my library, but more brilliant. I think I’ll add this one.

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Camera Experimentation: Long Shutter Speeds

April 12, 2008

Photo by rbieber
Halfway through exposure I put a candle in front of it.

Just playing around with the camera this evening, since it is raining and nothing is really on TV. There are more photos on the flickr site.

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Link Structure Changed

April 12, 2008

I’ve changed the link structure of the blog to get rid of the /wordpress/ in the URL. If you see anything screwy or not redirecting properly, please let me know by emailing me at ron_at_bieberlabs.com.

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links for 2008-04-11

April 10, 2008

How To Be Creative
Hugh MacLeod’s “How To Be Creative” Manifesto. Good stuff in here.
(tags: advice career creativity innovation life)

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: i get paid by the hour
“I get paid by the hour to hate my life”
(tags: gapingvoid cartoons)

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links for 2008-04-09

April 8, 2008

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter – post RSS to twitter automatically
Posts to twitter when it finds a new entry on your blog feed. Not sure I would every do this, but its nice to know its there.
(tags: twitter tools rss blogging feed)

Google Maps – Chicago Transit Maps
Chicago Transit maps now online
(tags: [...]

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April 7, 2008

Music Video: Back in Black by Wing
Probably the best cover version of Back in Black ever.
(tags: video acdc back-in-black wing)

7 Ways To Create Your Own Digg Clone
Digg clone software
(tags: social-software cms digg)

Getting things done (simply) in Leopard | Dennis Best
Using GTD without GTD specific software – oh yeah, on the Mac.
(tags: gtd apple howto [...]

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