Terry Jones

Archive for February, 2008

Thiefhunters in paradise

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted under books, travel. | Comments Off on Thiefhunters in paradise

My good friend Bambi has finally begun to blog in earnest! Fantastic. She and her husband/partner Bob Arno have hundreds of true tales of their extraordinary, amazing, adventures all over the ... Read more..

Amants de Lulú

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted under barcelona, music. | 3 Comments »

I've not been blogging much recently, but that may change before long. Today I was having a nap and awoke to hear music on the street downstairs. I went down to ... Read more..

Keynote is good

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted under tech. | 2 Comments »

I've been playing with Keynote to make a presentation. There are a lot of things I don't really like about using a Mac, but Keynote is not one of them. It ... Read more..

Worst of the web award: Cheaptickets

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted under companies, me, tech. | 10 Comments »

Here's a great example of terrible (for me at least) UI design. I was just trying to change a ticket booking at Cheaptickets. Here's the interface for selecting what you want ... Read more..

How the democrats could blow it. Again.

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted under politics. | 2 Comments »

The race to be the US democratic nominee is pretty interesting. As has been pointed out though, it's going to come down to what the superdelegates decide to do. Here's ... Read more..

The power of representation: Adding powers of two

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted under representation, tech. | 5 Comments »

On the left is an addition problem. If you know the answer without thinking, you're probably a geek. Suppose you had to solve a large number of problems of this type; ... Read more..

Talking about Antigenic Cartography at ETech

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted under me, tech. | Comments Off on Talking about Antigenic Cartography at ETech

Blogs are all about self-promotion, right? Right. I'm talking at ETech in the first week of March in San Diego. The talk is at 2pm on Wednesday March 3, and is ... Read more..

Talking at TTI/Vanguard Smart(er) Data conference

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted under me, representation. | 6 Comments »

I've been invited to speak at a TTI/Vanguard conference in Atlanta on SMART(ER) DATA on Feb 20/21. Here's the abstract. Representation, Representation, Representation In this talk I will argue for the importance of ... Read more..

My twitter stats

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted under me, twitter. | Comments Off on My twitter stats

I seem to be done with Twitter, at least for now. The graphic shows my monthly usage graph (courtesy of tweetstats) - click for the full-sized image. I do find Twitter ... Read more..

Social Graph foo camp was a blast

Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted under companies, travel. | Comments Off on Social Graph foo camp was a blast

I spent last weekend at the Open Social Foo camp held on the O'Reilly campus in Sebastopol, CA. The camp was organized by David Recordon and Scott Kveton, with sponsorship ... Read more..