Monthly Archives: March 2006

No value deal

Posted on 30 March 2006 by tychay

I stopped by Wendy’s on the way back from the ski rental. I noticed the double was selling for $1 more than the single and the triple was $1 more than the double.
But they were advertising “Double the beef just … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics | 2 Comments

Gmail to Plaxo import

Posted on 29 March 2006 by tychay

An interesting question came up the other day about gMail synchronization with Plaxo.
Synchronization is not possible because Google doesn’t provide an API for synching. (In fact, AFAIK, they only publicly provide Gmail import.) Without a synchronization API, there is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Plaxo | 2 Comments

Andy Card resigns

Posted on 28 March 2006 by tychay

Andy Card resigns as White House Chief of Staff and is replaced by Yosh Bolten. This is a total non-story which is only interesting to those trying to survey how many people are trying to squeeze water from this rock.
The … Continue reading →

Posted in religion and politics | 10 Comments

Big Trouble in Little OSCON

Posted on 27 March 2006 by tychay

It turns out two of my talks have been accepted at OSCON this year.

They are “0 to 60 in 45 minutes: A Down and Dirty Ajax Design Patterns firedrill” in the new AJAX track and “The Underpants Gnomes Strategy Guide: … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, presentation, web development | 3 Comments

Being a playa hatah

Posted on 27 March 2006 by tychay

The first time I heard of ”player hater” was about four years ago when Sean showed me the Star Wars Gangsta Rap viral video. If you somehow missed that, you need to watch it. If you’ve already seen it 100 … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, humor, Macintosh, society and culture | 3 Comments

n-blades

Posted on 22 March 2006 by tychay

Gizmodo had a funny article which pointed to something I had missed. That an Onion parody article on a 5-bladed Gillette in response to Schick came true late last year.
[razor blade models and college stories after the jump]

Posted in about me, business and economics, humor | 3 Comments

A good idea gone wrong

Posted on 22 March 2006 by tychay

Flickr a few months ago created a good idea: they inject a div into the landing page of login that allows them to send arbitrary messages to you that you can dismiss. I definitely think more websites should do that.
Imagine … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, web development | 2 Comments

Ghetto tips

Posted on 17 March 2006 by tychay

Mike, a friend and former co-worker pointed me to Go Ghetto. I looked at it and promptly forgot about it.
I should have read Mike’s blog closer because at Lunch 2.0 today, I found out that my friends Holly and (a … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, humor, photography, web development | 3 Comments

Shooting people at work

Posted on 15 March 2006 by tychay

There has been a movement in Plaxo recently to make the blog â€œmore edgyâ€ and less bland corporate PR crap. I can only say thatâ€™s a good thing.
One little gem of that outgrowth is a wonderful entry by my co-worker … Continue reading →