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Keep It Simple Stupid
MySpace continues to not innovate while others drown themselves in Ajax, DHTML, MashUps, targeted advertising and the rest. Pop Culture is saying no thanks to all the bells and whistles, influence appears to be far more important than technology. This [...]

WordPress and the Performancing Extension
This is my first post with the performancing extension for Firefox. The initial take is good and there seems to be plenty of support . I also dig the split screen.

Paul Graham has released another essay from his book Hackers and Painters.
A great read on the difference between money and wealth, the economic model and ideology of a programmer, and how a startup  is literally a lifetime of work bundled into 4 years of stress.
Economically, you can think of a startup as a way [...]

This was written a year ago. I wonder how much has changed……….
What’s not so clear, I think, is that Google is actually so good at technical recruiting that it’s not just a difference in magnitude; it’s a difference in kind. What they’re doing can hardly be called recruiting anymore. The term “recruiting” implies that you’re [...]

One of my favorite bloggers, Ben Barren, has sold out, gone corp. and is now blogging for the Web 2.0 Workgroup. So I guess now the only question that remains, will the format change?
Why I’m really here, is to co-opt the Sanfransocial secrets and commercially exploit them on the other side of [...]

From Paul Graham in his essay, “The Return of the Mac”

If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they’re doing, you’ll be doing.