You'll be looking for this guy
Just testing the blogging functionality on flickr. Please ignore.
March 7, 2008 at 11:22 AM in Testing | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Twitter needs to be distributed
Dave is talking about twitter again.
I read a little bit of the comments on that particular post. David Geller made a comment that I absolutely agree with: "Twitter is not an open, user supported community tool. It's a VC backed commercial entity with goals of rapid growth and, eventually, revenue." Even the United States Department of Defense realized that centralization was an extremely bad idea when they started ARPANET.
I disagree with Dave's request for a meeting with Twitter and the tech community. I would rather see us (the community) just replicate Twitter's premise and turn it into the community tool that we need.
I have a rough draft proposal if you'd like to go take a look. If you'd like to contribute changes to this, send me an e-mail or just write in the comments.
We probably should set up a Yahoo or Google group as a place to talk about it.
What do you think?
January 31, 2008 at 12:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Crazy Stupid Idea
A friend of mine has given me a new book to read, Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week. As of the time of this writing, it has 79 five star ratings on Amazon.com. It has 127 total ratings for a combined 4.5. Sounds like a winner to me. After reading up to chapter 5, I got a CrazyStupidIdea™.
This gentleman, Phil Town, is describing a way to measure the health of a company. He defines healthy as more than 10% growth per year over a steady period of 10 years. Not having read the rest of the book yet, I'm assuming that if you invest in these companies (using his strategy), you'll never lose money. This still sounds like a winner to me.
What if I applied my skills as a software developer to help me in investing?
Here are the tools that I'm proposing to bring to bear in this endeavor:
- A Custom Implementation of MapReduce on the .NET Platform
- General Purpose Multi-Processing on GPU's using a .NET library called Brahma
- Genetic Algorithms to evolve the most efficient trading strategy
- A few good web services from which to gather data
I've created a new blog category which I can use to log the progress on this CrazyStupidIdea. I also created a new Investing category to track what I learn from the new book as well.
The tools that come out of this will of course be released under an open source license of some sort, so that others can benefit from the work that I did.
January 13, 2008 at 02:27 AM in CrazyStupidIdea, Investing | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Just started reading The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
This isn’t a new years resolution. Just like Jeff Atwood (http://www.codinghorror.com) loves Steve McConnell, I love Donald Knuth.
I would love to record my learning experiences to my blog as Atwood has.
January 7, 2008 at 02:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Link Blog
I've added a link in the sidebar to my link blog. This is the information that I categorize as "_checklater" while I'm reading my feeds in Newsgator. I'll post more information on this later.
March 21, 2007 at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Comcast “On Demand” Service sucks in Fair Oaks, California
I don't know if it is a hardware/network issue in our area. I've attempted to use this service at various times during the day for the last couple of weeks. Only during the late time hours (1-2 AM) have I been able to access the service.
"Communications Error" and "META-6" come up a lot.
Technical support staff is of little or no help via their 800 number that is flashed on screen next to the error message.
I'll have to investigate further.
March 17, 2007 at 10:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
What are you up to right now?
If you would like an answer to that question go here.
I've created an account at a site called Twitter whose sole purpose is to help its users answer that question and broadcast it to the rest of the world.
March 17, 2007 at 09:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
PowerPoint Viewer Link
March 7, 2007 at 01:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Who just called me?
Cool resource I just found via Google: whocalled.us. I just received a call from (702) 818-2457. They left a 5 second dead air message. Wanting to find out more, I did a quick search and found these guys. Apparently, they've been making a lot of very similar calls to the one I received and are generally making a lot of people angry.
February 27, 2007 at 09:24 AM in Link | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Stupid Easy Business Model
I should have at least 5 ideas in the idea journal that are at least as easy as this one. Todd, I think the coupon/referral site idea that you had fits perfectly!
February 26, 2007 at 12:53 PM in Business Idea | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Complete Software Development hosting environment
Found out about SVNRepository.com from this post over here on blogs.ITToolbox.com.
$7 bucks/month! Done! I'm going to be testing these guys out over the next 30 days. I'll blog about the experience along the way.
January 25, 2007 at 05:05 PM in Software Development | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Link: Knighthood for Dyson Entrepreneur
January 2, 2007 at 10:57 AM in Link | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Link(s): Skype Firewall Traversal
http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000140.html
Columbia University Protocol Analysis
Skype Security Resource Center
Wikipedia article on NAT Traversal. UDP Hole punching is mentioned.
January 2, 2007 at 02:14 AM in Link | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Link: Connections and Connection Management in IIS
Just letting Google index this so that I can find it again later.
Windows XP Professional runs IIS versino 5.1 and is only allowed up to 10 concurrent connections.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262635
By default IIS only allows 2 outbound connections. This can be a problem when integrating a web service into a web application.
http://blogs.msdn.com/darrenj/archive/2005/03/07/3...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=...
December 19, 2006 at 10:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Quotes For Today
Software Notebook: Microsoft in buying mood
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told reporters at a conference last month that Google buys companies at a rate of one or two a week, many of them as small as one to three people.
August 22, 2006 at 12:15 PM in Business | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Test from Windows Live Writer
I'm playing around with this peice of software. This would be the first post. I'm liking it so far. It feels very similar to OneNote and Word.
August 14, 2006 at 12:15 PM in Testing | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
First Post from TypePad Mobile Edition
Testing...
August 12, 2006 at 10:06 AM in Testing | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Amazon Web Services in SecondLife
July 26, 2006 at 12:50 PM in SecondLife | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
James Doohan will have his remains shot into space
This link is for those of you who were a fan of "Scotty" from the original Star Trek series.
July 25, 2006 at 11:31 PM in Link | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
There's being a geek...
There's being a geek, and then there is this...
This link goes out to all of you who happen to be fans of 24.
July 25, 2006 at 11:21 PM in Link | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Link Blog
