a crank’s progress

Label Master - Page 5
Use these on your holiday gifts and they’ll be talking about it for years.

I’m a java skeptic. The promise of write once, run everywhere has morphed into write once, suffer everywhere. The whole notion of java applications, given that your code will only perform as well as the virtual machine, meaning your OS vendor, permits, has never really caught fire. Applets turned out to be a bust: [...]

Revenge of the Nerds
If you start a startup, don’t design your product to please VCs or potential acquirers. Design your product to please the users. If you win the users, everything else will follow. And if you don’t, no one will care how comfortingly orthodox your technology choices were.

I have always liked simple foods, big on texture and flavor and low on technique. So things like burritos, quesadillas, pizza, pasta, etc, have always been staples on the menu.
Being vegetarian doesn’t really make it more difficult, since most of these items were meatless as a matter of course. With the advent of “better [...]

< -Relevare | Bringing the right information, to the right people->
I decided to learn more about a robot I logged. But their website is content-free unless you have Flash.

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Backlinks
Occasionally, there’s an idea so simple and powerful that you have to drop whatever you’re doing and implement it immediately.

Only on Southwest Airlines . . . . .
A mother and her 5 year old boarded a plane, and he asked why there were no baby airplanes. After all, he knew there were baby horses and baby sheep and baby dogs and baby cats: why not baby airplanes?
“Why don’t you go ask the [...]

one hundred of these little nuggets. I never imagined I would reach 100 entries but it does seem to scratch an itch.
Thanks for reading.

UNIX Porting Guide
For years, power users and developers have recognized the strengths of UNIX and its offshoots. While UNIX-based operating systems are indispensable to developers and power users, consumers have rarely been able to enjoy their benefits because of the perceived complexity. Instead consumers have lived with a generation of desktop computers that could only [...]

Some images of the denizens of low tide. Next time I need to bring the tripod: I lost a few of these with focus problems.