Are You a Slave to Technology or It's Master
From Triond:
Years ago, technology promised to make our lives better, and lessen our work week. Of course, this never happened. There is an expression "Work Smarter, Not Harder.." In this podlet I dicuss what is our life like, when we follow this motto, and become the masters of the technology we use everyday.
Coding Horror: April 2009
From Coding Horror Blog... We geeks obsessively optimize what's on our keychain, we'd be remiss if we didn't also obsessively optimize that other item most geeks carry around -- our wallet.
My current Tumi wallet was almost 10 years old and starting to show its age. While I never had an enormous Constanza Wallet, I felt I could do better.
Tagged as: | geeky | wallet | efficiency
Coding Horror: How Not to Conduct an Online Poll
Inside the Precision Hack is a great read. It's all about how the Time Magazine World's Most Influential People poll was gamed. But the actual hack itself is somewhat less impressive when you start digging into the details.
Here's the voting UI for the Time poll in question.
Tagged as: | geeky | business | online-polls | surveys
A fast one about the York Street Station
From the blog of Tim Scammell
I'm sorry I don't have time for a decent sized blog right now but I will very soon. I promise.I have another Shep story that I want to get out there.For now though, I want to post these links for readers of the blog who aren't on Facebook or Twitter.These are photos that I took yesterday
Tagged as: | Fredericton | Marysville | general
I know this is cheating but it's interesting
From the blog of Tim Scammell
I was just looking for a bookmark for a web site on my Blackberry and ran across one for a blog and personal site that I started a couple of years ago. Obviously I forgot about it and didn't feel up to really getting into blogging further.There are four blogs on there dated January 18, 2007, January
Tagged as: | Fredericton | Marysville | general
