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27 January 2012
lists in applications need to include a "hide completed" feature. I don't want to keep reordering lists just to see remaining items better. -
25 January 2012
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24 January 2012
I think I am addicted to shoe shines. I hardly ever used to get them, but now feel off when my shoes are not shiny ;( -
23 January 2012
are there 'crowd-sourced' sites where kids can post their work, especially in ELA to understand where their peers are? -
22 January 2012
@vruzha Seemed to have died painfully.
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27 January 2012
Category Archives: Personal
On Lincoln NYTimes offer
The people who sign up for the Lincoln promotion aren’t handing over their credit-card numbers: they won’t automatically start getting billed when the promotion expires in 2012. And they’ll also learn that if you’re not a subscriber, you get shown … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, NYT, paywall, Subscription business model
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I have been called a geek, but I do not deserve it, yet.
Next time someone tells me, “you are such a geek” I will point them to the quote below and say, regretfully, I wish I were, but I am still just learning. Then I said, “Hmm, I have an intuition that … Continue reading
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A little about change we inflict on ourselves
I liked the beginning: They gave her The Device when she was only 2 years old. It sent signals along the optic nerve that swiftly transported her brain to an alternate universe—a captivating other world. By the time she was … Continue reading
Friendly promo: FoReal:FirstBlood for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G on the iTunes App Store
Pretty excited about a game a friend wrote now available in AppStore. Combines exercise, augmented reality, and first person shooting. How can you go wrong?! FoReal:FirstBlood for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G on the iTunes App … Continue reading
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Really?! Another op-ed rant – Higher Taxes Mean I’ll Work Less – NYTimes.com
Seriously. I know I am overdoing it on the op-eds, but even without “fisking” the article it is another mish-mash of wishful thinking, half-truth, and plain inconsistency. The only thing I can conclude from the article is that N. Gregory Mankiw … Continue reading
Stop shouting – a case for proper equipment
This is certainly one of the small issues that is so well-known, people have stopped talking about it long time ago. Specifically – Â in one of our conference rooms we have an old Polycom phone. It is not too bad … Continue reading
Really?! Most New York Graduates Are Ill Prepared, Data Show – NYTimes.com
This is somehow surprising? Experts find that a grade of C or B- in High School predicts a similar or slightly lower grade in college… What would non-experts conclude, that a 65 in an NYC High School would correlate to … Continue reading
Can you spell bubble with a ‘G’?
More froth – http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/groupon-readies-for-an-i-p-o/ What’s the rush for an ipo for a well-capitalized company? Fear that the market isn’t going to be there… Share this:Share
Digital Swarm Behavior
Thought this was interesting:Â Digital Swarm Behavior In general, I keep waiting for a new set of paradigms for “everyone to be talking about” to emerge. The candidates I hear about are: “social graph”, as in “facebook rules the social graph” … Continue reading
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2010 Old Year – Resolutions
One of the nice things about Dec 31st, is that no one will read anything you write. So I can safely list out all the things I wanted to write about, and it is almost as if I wrote about … Continue reading
