Terry Jones

Archive for November, 2007

reCaptcha added

Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted under tech, travel. | Comments Off on reCaptcha added

I'm stuck in the Oakland airport with a 3 hour delay on a flight to Vegas. Bambi, who steadfastly refuses to blog for reasons unknown, has dinner waiting for me ... Read more..

Elevator status report

Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted under travel. | 2 Comments »

Tonight I caught the BART from San Francisco back to Oakland. Waiting for the train to arrive and then again when I got off, I heard the world's stupidest public ... Read more..

The blogging honeymoon is over

Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted under me. | 2 Comments »

I can't take it any more. I can't handle the pace of blogging every day. The honeymoon is over, barely a month after I got the blogmobile back on the ... Read more..

Hacking Twitter on JetBlue

Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted under companies, me, python, twitter. | 7 Comments »

I have much better and more important things to do than hack on my ideas for measuring Twitter growth. But a man's gotta relax sometime. So I spent a couple of hours ... Read more..

Free Wifi with JetBlue at JFK terminal 6

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Free Wifi with JetBlue at JFK terminal 6

I've never flown with JetBlue before. I'm in Terminal 6 at JFK and JetBlue has free Wifi. That's so sensible. I'll even blog about it. I'll remember it. And next ... Read more..

Off to LA

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Off to LA

I'm off to LA today. I'm staying with an old school friend. I've not been blogging much in NY. Yesterday was extremely warm and very unlike November. But I spent ... Read more..

Can’t stand perl

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 Posted under python, tech. | 4 Comments »

I've just spent the last 7 hours working on a bunch of old Perl code that maintains a company equity plan. It's been pain, pain, pain the whole way. I ... Read more..

Twitter creeps in

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 Posted under me, tech, twitter. | 3 Comments »

I often notice little things about how I work that I think point out value. One sign that a piece of UI is right is when you start to look ... Read more..

No comment

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on No comment

For some reason I'm not receiving email notification of comments on this blog. I've just noticed a bunch of comments I'd not seen. I'm looking into it. Read more..

Not exactly Brownian motion in Manhattan

Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | 10 Comments »

Today after some meetings I went out for a walk. I'm staying on 12th Street between 5th and University in Manhattan. I had intended to "just wander around" pretty much at ... Read more..

The Mahalo-Wikipedia-Google love triangle

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 Posted under companies. | 28 Comments »

Lots of people seem to like dumping on Mahalo and Jason Calacanis. For example, Andrew Baron recently posted about Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed. Try Googling Mahalo sucks and you'll ... Read more..

Dinner at Els Quatre Gats

Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Posted under barcelona. | Comments Off on Dinner at Els Quatre Gats

I'm just back from the annual Mosterín Höpping family dinner at Els Quatre Gats (the four cats). We sat at a table right under the famous Ramon Casas painting above. ... Read more..

Flakey Twitter and the use of consecutive ids

Friday, November 16th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech, twitter. | 2 Comments »

Twitter was just inaccessible for maybe a couple of hours. Prior to that there was a 9-day gap in their timeline, noticed by at least a few people. I quite ... Read more..

Stop in the middle of something

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted under me. | 1 Comment »

Over the years I've found little tricks to keep myself working efficiently. For some reason I have it in mind that people think it's good to finish off tasks before taking ... Read more..

Is Andrew Parker secretly running Union Square Ventures?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted under companies, me. | 6 Comments »

Fred Wilson stirred up the entrepreneurial blogosphere 6 months ago with a series of posts wondering about the influence of founder age on startup success. I wrote one of my ... Read more..

The young are different

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted under companies. | 5 Comments »

[These are some comments I wrote in reply to a Fred Wilson posting, The Age Question (final post). I've pulled them out here because I feel like it, and I ... Read more..

Bicycle removal problem – solution

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted under other. | 3 Comments »

I wrote earlier about a bicycle removal problem. I wasn't exactly flooded with responses. Anyway, here's my solution. You buy a large collection of bike locks. Then you drive around the ... Read more..

Twittering from inside emacs

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted under python, tech, twitter. | Comments Off on Twittering from inside emacs

I do everything I can from inside emacs. Lately I've been thinking a bit about the Twitter API and social graphs. Tonight I went and grabbed python-twitter, a Python API for ... Read more..

Beach, chicken, hospital

Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted under barcelona. | 2 Comments »

Today we ate roasted chicken sitting outside Opollo in Barceloneta. We sat in the sun on a wooden terrace right on the beach. The sand was one step from our ... Read more..

Multiplying with Roman numerals

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Posted under companies, representation, tech. | 1 Comment »

I like thinking about the power of representation, particularly inside computers. I wrote about it earlier in the year and gave a couple of examples. Here's another. Think about how you ... Read more..