- Check out these pictures of Alan Cox’s laptop after the battery exploded. eYikes. Comments Off
- Kato Atsushi is making Japanese translations of the SVK tutorials available. These are a work in progress. Part I is up so far. Thanks Kato! Comments Off
- From the “what the hell was he thinking” dept: Dog the Bounty Hunter arrested in Mexico for — jumping bail. I watch the show sometimes and have heard him incessantly preach to the people he captures, even accusing them of stealing his kids college money. Way to lead by example Dog! (4)
- I just put in my order for Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, after hearing an interview with Mary Lynn on this episode of the Agile Toolkit podcast. The book sounds quite interesting and sounds like just what I need these days. Comments Off
- Pretty funny site. Tired of seeing Steve Jobs in the same get up for his Keynote Addresses? Help him dress for the next one with items found in his “insanely great magic closet”. Flash required. Courtesy of geekculture.com Comments Off
- Yet another article highlighting why I hate the patent system. Apparently NetFlix is sueing BlockBuster over patents it has over movie rentals over the internet. Comments Off
- Tim Bray talks about the recent hiring of the JRuby development team by Sun Microsystems. I think this is awesome. I’m so impressed with the Ruby language and would love to see it operate in a container and leverage all of the great Java components out there. Cote also talks about this over at People Over Process. Comments Off
- Got an email this morning stating that SQLYog, an excellent MySQL client comparable to TOAD for Oracle, is now open sourced. Go grab it! Comments Off
- I found a good article today talking about how much information one can give away just by having your Google Calendar public and outlining some not so nice ways that this information can be utilized. Comments Off
- If you are looking for a free replacement for MS-DOS, look no further. FreeDOS 1.0 has been released. Comments Off
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Apples Board of Directors - Full announcement. Comments Off
- Steve Dahl gives his take on the reunion show with former partner Garry Meier on Friday, August 28, 2006 on his web log over at Dahl.com. Comments Off
- Another humorous link, this one being a video of a Topless Car Wash. This is, at the time of this writing, the #1 most popular video on Google Video. Comments Off
- Ok, Tom forwarded a link to the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Pretty amusing. Reminds me of the Terri Schiavo Blog from a while back … Comments Off
- I haven’t looked at it yet, but definitely will be. SvnX is a Mac OSX client for the Subversion Version Control System. (2)
- Is there anything sadder than a podcaster without an iPod? I don’t think so. One podcaster is holding a fund drive to get an iPod. Check out TroyNeedsAnIPod.com. Comments Off
- I was going to write about the Buildix product released by Thoughtworks but Keith woke up from his blogging hibernation and beat me to it. It looks like a cool product. Comments Off
- Look out A.A, the 12 step program might be antiquated. The University of Wales, Banglor has created a computer program that helps excessive drinkers cut down. Good God, they’ve automated the Swish Pattern! Comments Off
- There is a great talk by Googles Marissa Mayer on the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast (see the Spring 2006 section). Marissa talks a lot about Googles culture and what makes them a great place to work. There are some GREAT things in this podcast. A must listen! Comments Off
- For the first time since joining the Podshow+ Developer Beta, this morning when I went to update my podcasts in iTunes I wasn’t prompted for the closed beta login. It looks like Podshow has opened up the site for public beta. Go take a look. Comments Off
