Saturday October 23, 2004

Remember Lucilla in Gladiator? Yea, that's Connie Nielsen.

Here's a guy with two sons and a wife of 7 or 8 years going to fashion shows, art auctions and movie premiers with his Danish girlfriend. Oh, Lars: you're so damned hollywood! Apparently the paparazzi in Denmark have kept tabs on them as well.

Back in the old days o' Metallica we had loads of fun but didn't go to fashion shows, art auctions and movie premiers. We didn't sip fine wines either. Oh well, I hope the dude is happy.

Friday October 22, 2004

After raising the notion with Tantek, he plugged the trivial bit to enable this on the Technorati site..
Check it out http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/referer.html (ok, so I'm not very popular in this big 'ol cosmos but anyway...). This is what you do:

Thursday October 21, 2004

OK, I lied. It ain't about me, it's about our new office and the major milestones that Technorati is achieving, the agony of startup setbacks and the ecstacy of... having fun! The details:

WHEN

Thursday, October 28, 7 p.m.

WHERE

Technorati, 665 Third Street #207, San Francisco

WHAT

A party to catch up, and celebrate the move to our new offices!

RSVP

rsvp@technorati.com. As space is always limited, please be sure to RSVP.

Here's Dave's original post.

Tuesday October 19, 2004

Sure, I have a rain parka but that's not the point, I wanted to avoid having my backpack get saturated. So after waiting about 10 minutes, a two car N-Judah rolls into Embarcadero station at aroun 8:40 or so with the robotic audio announcement "two car. mission bay. now approaching...." A crowd piles on; I don't think the MUNI scheduling people have realized that a lot of people work near the ball park.

Out on the surface streets at Harrison, the driver announces that it's the last stop and that the next N would arrive in 3 minutes! Why would they cut the route 3 stops short?! Everyone spills out into the deluge of wind and rain; the shelter there hardly has adequate room, so most of us are getting wet. BTW, that was train cars number 1481 and 1483, in case any MUNI hacks are reading this. Almost 10 minutes later, I ended up getting back on the first train as it showed up on the opposite side of the platform, going the other way -- I was getting concerned that the rain would soak through my backpack and get my powerbook wet. On the way back to Embarcadero station, I saw the "next train" -- it was packed; looked like there would barely be room for all of the folks who'd withstood the rain waiting for it. I finally got another train and got to the office by 9:10am. Thanks for the convenient adventure, MUNI!

Thursday October 14, 2004

So many books, so little time

Hibernate in Action

If the slashdot review glowed any brighter, it'd spontaneously combust.

Agile Database Techniques : Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer

Weighing YAGNI against the PITA'ness of data model changes has bit me before. Data modeling and iterating over model revisions are often the hard part in agile development cycles. I'd expect Scott Ambler to offer useful insights into lightening what is often the heaviest part of a projects development.

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

As one who actively looks for opportunities in subverting the dominant paradigm, I'm interested in Clayton Christensen's follow-up to The Innovator's Dilemma.

Someday real soon, I'll build a little app with Amazon's ListLookupOperation to integrate wishlist items with my blog and perhaps fold it into an Attention.XML data source.

Friday October 08, 2004

See for yourself, Bush's mystery bulge I hope Kerry brings it up in tonight's debate, may be pat him down.

Master of Puppets

I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings

The hackathon percolated a lot of interesting ideas. One of the bits of feedback that caught my attention was from Chris Fry:

There are some drawbacks however to not having a WSDL and to not using SOAP. (1) You are bound to HTTP; (2) If you version the contract how do you notify your clients? (3) Related to 1, no SOAP Headers; (4) No public contract other than your documentation.

This sounds great, getting Technorati developers out of the wire-protocol-awareness business (unless they want to be in it) is one of my goals for future development efforts with the Technorati API. The direction I'd like to take it is an "all of the above" implementation where API consumers can fiddle with the low level if they want to (via REST w/XML, REST w/XOXO, xml-rpc or whatever interface to du jour is desired) but also provide a SOAP interface for those who want to use WSDL to skip all of that.

We have some work to do internally at Technorati to get us to that point though.

Check it out:

Gmail Atom Feed Coming?

According to internetnews.com, Google is enabling feeds of gmail mailboxes to make feed readers lightweight mail clients (well, readonly clients). I'm imagining subscribing to mailing list digests through gmail and reading them through a feed reader will become an adopted practice. Additionally, gmail's search capabilities are getting some augmentation.

Google Searches Books: Google Print

As has been widely publicized, Google Print seems to be Google's response to A9 ...so far Google Print has been down half the time I've tried to use it but I wouldn't bet against them executing well on it.

Google queryable via SMS

I'm imagining all kinds of goodness out of this... querying Froogle for prices while you're shopping bricks-n-mortar venues, looking up local bars and restaurants (and Dodgeballing them!)

Gbrowser

John Doerr says that he doesn't see browser in Google's future but still, if it quacks like a browser builder, it's probably a browser building duck.

So what's next from Google? An Orkut that isn't all-Brazil-all-the-time?

Tuesday October 05, 2004

If you haven't checked it out, stop what you're doing and check out Mount St. Helens right now! ( Oct 05 2004, 10:03:09 AM PDT ) Permalink