Wes Maldonado: Data Junkie

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Philip Greenspun, posted about the iPhone along with a billion other people. I tried adding a couple of comments that were deleted moderated, so I’m adding them here.

Where are the flip phones?

Basically all Japanese phones are flip-phones and it baffles me as to how American consumers are denied the simple interface of […]

Derek Zoolander: Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking “wow, you’re ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career.” Matilda: […]

Build a PDA for less than $250 that actually does something: a) cellular email b) 56-channel TV c) Internet phone. 101 Ways to Save Apple, Issue 5.06 | Jun 1997

That crazy wired… what were they thinking.

This is a good reason to remember that no everyone has a fast connection also.

I got an email from ORCSWEB, my most excellent hosting company (check them out) that I’d used over 230 GIGs of bandwidth for the month. Oy. First, I was happy that the site is doing well, then I was […]

Jeff Sutherland wrote this post discussing the three questions in the daily scrum. I’m going to steal a couple of his quips, but go read the full post.

What did you do yesterday? This question tests the focus of the team. Anything done that was not work on the backlog […]

And now at 1:36am I am wide awake. I normally sleep from 11pm to 6:30am but today I slept from 2am to 11:30am thanks to the new year festivities.

What do I do when I can’t sleep?

In the past hour or two I’ve had a glass of milk and read articles on compact […]