Small Initiatives

Books that I remember from my childhood: The Perpetual Learning Machine - a gift from my grandmother. The Great Brain series - borrowed from Brian Rudolph as a kid. The Mad Scientists Club - bought...

Just got my DropBox account set up. For those not familiar, it is versioned storage that you can just mount on any of your machines. Instant synchronization, and versioning. Behind the scenes I think...

I have been in the RSS camp for many years. Originally, I really panned twitter. Then I joked that pownce was the new twitter, and eventually that twitter was the new twitter. But lately I've...

DangerMouse-2:~ gfranxman$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn 102 vi 58 ls 56 python 47 cd 43 ssh 28 curl 22 date 18 crontab 12 cat 8...

Wow! Google just announced Google App Engine which will allow users to host their python applications on their server infrastructure similar to Amazon's EC2 services, but in a more...

I suspect people don't trust simulations of traffic as being real enough. And infographics can be a little too cutesy sometimes. I like this video because it is a real world test, but it...

We just launched the new MetroPulse and I'm still in the 'keep an eye on it' mode. The site looks great and will only improve as we round out the features and their staff get more content...

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