Toyota ultimately decided to pursue customers it calls “true truckers.” True truckers aren’t ordinary pickup owners; rather, these men are the Platonic ideal of truck-driving authenticity. They might work on the ranch or the construction site; they might fish for bass every weekend. “They’re the taste makers, the influentials,” Ernest Bastien, a vice president of […]
I noticed recently at Costco that they’re selling the Canon Rebel XTi with 18-55mm and the Nikon D80 with two lenses kit. That’s silly. The D80 + 2 lenses (28-70 and 70-300) cannot compete against the Rebel XTi (+ 18-55) in a store like that. For one thing, they’re the same 10 megapixels. The D80 […]
I was looking at FirePHP today, trying to figure out what the point is, because the screenshots they keep directing me to are a joke. Here is a better summary: Basically it is allows PHP scripts to send debugging (or profiling) information to Firefox’s Firebug without having the write to the page itself. How it […]
At work one of the printers is named “paperjam” and the other is “treekiller.” I printed out my stuff on treekiller.
Dave told me his website was getting stumbled. The reason is he made Ajaxian: Congrats. I love Ajaxian even if you have to wonder with all the Web 2.0 koolaid they drink there what’s going to happen when they have a James Jones moment. Dave, as your first user ever, you have to convince me […]
I paid for Amazon Prime because I’m rich and lazy. Besides, I spend about 15 hours a day at work, now. This means whenever I have an urge to get a spatula, I just order it and it gets sent two day shipping at no charge. (Yes, I’ve actually done shit like that.) But the […]
I woke up today and had four zits on my forehead. That’s like two more than I had my entire high school years. What’s up with that?
OSCON proposals are due in 20 minutes. I submitted something just now. That’s like 10 minutes sooner than last time. I am improving. 🙂 The last talk new talk I gave was at OSCON so I had to come up with something new. Since I just changed jobs and actually spent the afternoon B.S.ing one […]
Dave point out that some stuff going on at LinkedIn which led him to mention this Business 2.0 article. No, I don’t want to talk about Sundays at the Mountain View Starbucks—I guess I used to go to the other Starbucks—I just want to nitpick two things I read in the article. [My two nitpicks […]
I’m trying to help someone in academia buy a unix workstation. The task involves intensive number crunching on very large (14 GB) data sets using packages like Maple, MatLab and SAS. Here is a quote they got from their computing department: There are two main UNIX servers: Sun Microsystems V40z with 2 Dual Core 64-bit […]