links for 2008-04-30
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Crowdsourcing Design Work. Found via StackOverflow.com
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Ways to classify Twitter users …
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links for 2008-04-27
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“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. “
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“James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.”
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“Patients who have trouble sleeping for more than two or three weeks should consult a doctor, she said. Untreated sleep problems can increase patients’ risk for diabetes and heart problems, as well as affect their daily productivity.”
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links for 2008-04-25
links for 2008-04-23
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Bee Pollen is supposed to give you more energy. This was a recommendation from Jonna.
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“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 the information that’s there, and being willing to do something about it. That’s agility.”
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links for 2008-04-22
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Red Hat and Novell concentrating on Enterprise Linux now, not desktop for consumer.
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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 Business more deeply than just having business representation in the Product Owner. Engagement is the wrong word, I s
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“It’s not enough for software product development to just be aligned with the business; it needs to be part of the business.” - In a nutshell, create small startups in your big company. Seems like a no-brainer.
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Who IS Next?
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 of them. This was my favorite.
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The Great American Novel
Photo by rbieber
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.
Update:
It looks like the book was released prematurely by Malleys publisher and is no longer available. Apparently the version on sale was not completely edited and the cover was not approved. Full explanation of what happened is available on KATG Episode #711 at around 37:40.
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Chalk Outline
Photo by rbieber
The final result. Notice - there’s no neck.
I guess it is always going to be surprising what is actually popular. This one picture out of more than 3,500 of them is the one that seems to get all the attention, according to Flickr stats as of April 18, 2008.
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links for 2008-04-17
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LDAP Integration for the Pligg content management system.
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Cruise is a continuous integration and release management system that enables teams to quickly and confidently release their code from development to production.
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links for 2008-04-15
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“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.”
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“recently celebrated my one-year anniversary of quitting smoking. Well, of finally quitting … like most smokers, I had tried to quit many times and failed. But this quit stuck, and I’d like to share the top 10 things that made this quit successful whe
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“Personal technology enthusiasts yearning for the Mac Experience without the Apple Tax—that huge markup that Mac users pay for off-the-shelf PC hardware with OS X—your days of gnashing teeth may be over. “
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“Google and Salesforce.com, two of Microsoft’s most conspicuous rivals, are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate their sales of customer management and office software to businesses.”
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“What we do know is that nicotine by itself, without cigarettes, does not relieve the craving for cigarettes. About the only thing that is definitive is nicotine is not the major culprit - we can forget the nicotine.”
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Smokeblogging: Smoking Update for March
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 ugggh dude i relapsed after 3 years
(of no smoking)
I hear this a lot. People relapse after a really long time of not smoking. I’ve heard from 3 to 9 to even 20 years.
So Chris is not alone. So obviously I start to question.
Isn’t life too short to worry about things you “shouldn’t” be doing? Do I really want to spend the rest of my life obsessing about something like this, only to know that its inevitable that I go back? If the ultimate result is failure, than what is the point?
Its really tough for non-smokers to get this - but every smoker (or ex-smoker) understands these questions.
This is definitely a hard habit to break and there is a lot of evidence of failure all around you.
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Picasso On Learning
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
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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- 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. (0)
links for 2008-04-11
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Hugh MacLeod’s “How To Be Creative” Manifesto. Good stuff in here.
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“I get paid by the hour to hate my life”
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links for 2008-04-09
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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.
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Chicago Transit maps now online
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DNS Changes you need to make to get Twitter to work with Google Apps for Domains.
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Getting twitter to work with GTalk with your Google Apps For Domains accounts.
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links for 2008-04-08
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Probably the best cover version of Back in Black ever.
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Digg clone software
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Using GTD without GTD specific software - oh yeah, on the Mac.
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“A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneur [...] are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.”
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“Trying to avoid that [risk] is like trying to pretend a startup doesn’t need cash to grow. That’s like trying to Google “Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked.” You’ll get zero results, because it just doesn’t happen.”
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“The second time is different. Now you expect success not failure. ” Really interesting post by Dave Winer on both the Clintons and entrepenuership. Good read.
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