Entries for Tuesday, August 14, 2007
➠ August 14, 2007
Two Social System Design Trends That Should Really, Really Stop. Like now.
“Yes, I know you’d love to have access to my address books and IM lists. But stop asking me for my login & password. Like to poke around my bank account while you’re at it? Take my wife out for naked tequila shots? How about just kicking me in the nuts a few times to show me who’s boss?”
Manager Approved. Flight Booked. I will be in Palo Alto for BarCampBlock this weekend.
Posted to Twitter at 3:50 p.m.
Bah! The night of both IgniteBoston and Tech Cocktail Boston, I’ll be in Providence seeing the Arctic Monkeys. No free geek drinks for me!
Posted to Twitter at 1:56 p.m.
Trying to debug a non-reproducible bug in someone else’s code. This? Is not fun.
Posted to Twitter at 1:35 p.m.
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Tool to find astroturfing on Wikipedia. Sadly, the site that powered this article is overloaded and down currently.
TECH cocktail Boston
Another local geek networking event — this one with the promise of free booze. The evening collides with O’Reilly’s second Ignite Boston night, which will lead to an interesting splitting of the audience.
Wish I had some spare cash so I could buy some shares in VMWare when it IPOs this morning. That puppy’s gonna do nothing but grow.
Posted to Twitter at 8:12 a.m.
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