Archive for the 'Soapbox' Category

Today’s the day.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Well, the big day is finally here, and things look good. This is the first presidential election that I’ll observe from California, which should allow me to stay up late enough to get the results, so that should be interesting. Nikki and I are having an election party, and I hope I don’t leave disappointed.
So [...]

Everything’s cheaper in Cleveland?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Those words were overheard at the airport before my flight back to San Francisco. Immediately, I blurted out “Not crab or avocado”, but this just begged for some math to drive the point home.
So, let’s say that crab costs $3.50 per pound in San Francisco and $13.00 per pound in Cleveland. How much crab [...]

Google is being a bitch

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

What’s the deal? The best flickr uploader for Linux Windows and Mac has totally fallen off the front page of Google in the past week. Last week it was the first link returned, but now, it’s on the second page again! Did I punch someone at google or something? How can something go from #1 [...]

…just a bit overboard

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

With the latest release of jUploadr, I think the app is at a point where just about any end user would be able to use it. It’s got a really intuitive interface, and now has a configuration UI. When I started writing it, I really just wanted something to do batch uploads from [...]