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Archive for January, 2009

Loose cannon

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted under companies, me. | Comments Off on Loose cannon

Today I referred to myself as a loose cannon to Esteve. Tonight I recalled describing a former boss that way in an email (company name obscured with xxxxx). Here it ... Read more..

Just little and crazy

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted under me, other. | Comments Off on Just little and crazy

Tonight Lucas was crying about having to have dinner instead of being able to use the laptop. I asked him if he even remembered what life was like before he ... Read more..

FluidDB domain names available early (and free) for Twitter users

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted under FluidDB, Fluidinfo, twitter. | 30 Comments »

Sometime in the next few months, Fluidinfo will launch an alpha version of FluidDB, the database with the heart of a wiki. It's a big engineering task, and there ... Read more..

Who signed up for Twitter immediately before/after you?

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted under companies, python, twitter. | 2 Comments »

This is just a quick hack, done in about 20 minutes in 32 lines of Python. The following script will print out the Twitter screen names of the people who ... Read more..

10,000 things: Andrew Hensel lives (on Twitter)

Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted under me, twitter. | 15 Comments »

Andrew Hensel was an extraordinary human being. We were graduate students together at The University of Waterloo in Canada in 1986-88. I met him on my first day there and we ... Read more..