I really don’t understand parents. When I tell other people that have kids that we’re expecting our first kid any day now, the first thing they tell me how “great” it is. The second thing they tell me, with silly grins on their faces, is their horror stories about when their kid was born, getting …
The iPhone hype is deafening. Even so, I don’t want one. AT&T coverage is sucky. No Bluetooth Dial-up Networking. I use this a lot to get Internet access from my laptop. No IM client. I also use this a lot. No ability to create and install real apps on it. Widgets are nice unless you’re …
Well, LAUNCHcast survived one big challenge earlier this year when Yahoo won a lawsuit filed against us in 2001. Now, the organization that sets the rates broadcasters pay has gone overboard. They’ve gotten approval for a huge rate hike that will effectively mean the end of radio online. Really. First, they want broadcasters to pay …
After six years, the suit filed against LAUNCH by the music labels about LAUNCHcast is over. We won! Billboard has the story. I’m proud that all those crazy hours I spent building LAUNCHcast from 1999 to 2002 were vindicated. I had the experience of testifying in federal court for this, actually the first witness in …
Something occurred to me today about tagging – it’s search in reverse. When you search, you put in keywords (tags) to find a web page. When you tag, you take a web page you’ve already found, and save some tags (keywords) for it. This immediately justifies the value of something like del.icio.us – millions of …
Now that we’re expecting our first progeny, there’s a million decisions to be made. There are many nearly inconsequential ones like the color of the bedding, but there are other decisions like giving the kid a name. The kid will never remember the bedding, but they’re pretty much stuck with the name for their whole …
Don’t get me wrong – I love my new MacBook Pro (2.16Ghz, 120GB HD, 2GB RAM, if you care), but there’s a few things that annoy me. Some of these things they don’t tell you about before you buy it and others just take a while to notice. 1. Not enough keys. By default, all …
As promised, here’s the first installment of the best of my 12 years of Tic Tac Toe feedback emails. The first email I have: Date: September 12, 1995 Dear Jeff, I came upon your page and decided to play a game of Tic Tac Toe. Your game screwed me over. I was cheated out of …
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I was looking through the access logs for boulter.com this evening and I noticed that my Tic Tac Toe site is still getting a lot of traffic. No wonder, it’s the #1 result for “Tic Tac Toe” on Google. It’s hard to believe I built this little program nearly TWELVE years ago for a college …
I’ve always hated our microwave. It’s big, ugly and old. It was manufactured in 1986, back when I was in 7th grade. Unfortunately, it has always worked well, so justifying buying another one was difficult – until this week. Midway through the heatup of Anne’s morning tea, it died. Hooray! Time to go shopping. I …