I've long noticed that when I'm writing an email, my voice comes out better than when I'm writing a blog. It seems to me that this has to do with the idea of an intended audience — when writing an email, I'm writing to someone, but when writing a blog I'm just writing and the audience [...]
Bruce Perens has an interesting article up about an apparent attack on a smallish town called Morgan Hill's modern infrastructure. Coordinated attackers cut the communication lines, cutting out phones, cell phones, internet, security alarms, et cetera, all at once. It's a somewhat frightening tale of just how vulnerable our civilization is to a deliberate and [...]
As I try to start using Posterous, my thoughts about it keep going back to another service I’ve been trying to start using: Friendfeed. With Friendfeed, you just tell it where you’re publishing stuff online, and it goes out and aggregates it for you on one place. It’s pretty cool, and makes it easy for [...]
I’ve discovered how you can post to different blogs, at will, through Posterous. And frankly, I think it’s fantastic. I look forward to a lot more posting of crap from my iPhone, because let’s go ahead and be honest: 140 characters isn’t enough space. It’s much easier to open up the email app and throw [...]
This annoying rainout at Fenway has given me the opportunity to try some things out, and one of them is getting to know Posterous. One of the main things I want from it is to be able to post from it to multiple blogs, and being able to choose which one to post to. I've [...]
For some reason people ascribe some sort of magical significance to “newspapers,” as if there can’t be “news” without “paper,” and if information is distributed in some non-tree-killing fashion, the world is sure to collapse post-haste. In a strangely anti-Google-and-all-those-nerds-on-the-internet screed, “Henry Porter” drops this little nugget: In 1787 Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Were it left [...]
For a while, I’ve been wishing that I could use a Vim editor inside Eclipse. I’m basically forced to use Eclipse at work, but editing text in Vim is just so much more pleasant. For many months, I’ve just lived with the Eclipse text editor. Until yesterday, when I was alerted to the existence of [...]
So I signed up for the Palm WebOS Mojo SDK preview today. They asked what application I’m planning to write once I get it, so I told them about a mobile client for Things I Did. I think it’d be cool, and I was planning to make such a client once I got the Pre; [...]