Posts from February 2008

Silicon Valley Is For The Sheep, Michael

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted a bizarre rant today about people who aren’t in Silicon Valley. He claims that “if you want to change the world and are willing to do absolutely anything to achieve your dreams, there is no better place to be.” Bullshit, if ever I’ve heard it, and on a par with […]


MacYay: My new blog for Mac newbies

MacYay is my latest blog, released to some StumbleUpon users yesterday and properly “launched” today. It’s a Mac tips, tutorials and “resources” site aimed primarily at people new to the Mac or pretty much anyone who’s not a power user. So far I’ve written articles on application launching, taking a screenshot, moving your dock about, […]


iTunes Equalizer for Harman Kardon Soundsticks II

This is about as obscure as it gets, but I thought I’d share. It’s my iTunes equalizer settings for the Harman/Kardon Soundsticks. They don’t sound very good on “Flat” and after a lot of fidgeting around, I got these settings which seem to work well with all sorts of music, classical, rock, and pop (but […]


SwitchPipe: Easier Web App Deployment (And Observations)

In January I was primarily working on a new technology called “SwitchPipe.” It took three weeks from start to completion and was inspired by a popular discussion I fielded on Ruby Inside regarding the difficulties involved in deploying Ruby and Rails Web applications.
The concept I imagined at the start of January was that a proxy […]


Sharia law in Britain is not such a bad idea

In recent years the various Archbishops of the United Kingdom have filled in the role previously played by Prince Philip by putting their foot in it on their uninformed ideas of modern life. The latest gaff, if you’ve somehow avoided its coverage already, is that the Archbishop of Canterbury, a supposedly “intelligent” man who believes […]


Microsoft Offers $44.6bn for Yahoo!

In just the last ten minutes, news has come out that Microsoft, in its seemingly never ending courtship of Yahoo!, has now proposed an acquisition valued at $44.6bn. This follows suggestions from analysts in the last few days that someone should buy Yahoo!.
It doesn’t mean too much to me, and it’d be nice to see […]