Every Architect’s Got a Little Larceny In ‘Em

In the classic movie “White Christmas”, there’s this great scene where Bing Crosby is talking to a woman whose sister just tricked him into coming to

The Evolution of Data Visualization

The only certainties are death death and taxes. We might want to add to that the importance of data. Since I own a business intelligence company, it’s always interesting to watch as a group of people become interested in a certain subset of data, because inevitably…

Little Known Ways to Use RSS

One of the great things about standards is that once they’re widely adopted people can bend them to uses that were never thought of by the people who originally crafted the standard. Everyone knows you can get news and blog posts via RSS, but there are a lot of other potential…

Predictions for 2007

I had my first Christmas cookies of the year yesterday, so I think it’s close

enough to the new year to put on the Magic Prediction Hat and think ahead. Here’s my take on what will happen in 2007, a year from now I’ll come back and see how I did (new task in the…

Whatever happened to Ray Ozzie?

Whatever happened to Ray Ozzie? Just this past June he was named CTO of Microsoft, and he immediately made a splash by mandating that Microsoft would participate in the software as a

LinkedIn is dead to me

UPDATE: My bad, I was wrong on this. As Michael Bertsein and Asbjørn

Ulsberg pointed out, I needed to use the small, tucked away “Add them as a connection” link to add this person. I guess this is merely deceptive on the part of LinkedIn. Although I’m not exactly…

Apparently everyone wants to hack MySpace

By far the most popular post I’ve ever written, in terms of traffic from Google, is one about how I tried to write a program to automatically suck information out of MySpace. What’s funny is that the post didn’t even talk about hacking into MySpace in the…

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, thanks for reading :)

Who Buys from Spam?

New spamming techniques have been the center of dicsussion in the blogosphere in the past couple of days. But what’s even more interesting to me is the subject of why spam is even effective in the first place.

The Xbox 360 as a DivX and Internet Media Server

I love my Xbox 360. The games are great, the online marketplace is well thought out and very well stocked with corny arcade games, demos, and