Entries for Monday, March 3, 2008
➠ March 3, 2008
Coding Horror: Actual Performance, Perceived Performance
The way you code a progress bar will do more to “performance” than tweaking the process it’s measuring. “Humans do not perceive the passage of time in a linear way.”
An hour and a half with Barack Obama
“What’s the picture that emerges from these four impressions?
Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer.
If you were asking me to write a capsule description of what I would look for in the next President of the United States, that would be it.”
Wicked tired, but unlikely to get to sleep for a while. Head swimming from some potentially awesome news.
Posted to Twitter at 10:12 p.m.
Got my Slacker Portable (http://rdbgb.us/xi5). Gotta say, opening the box to a player with a charged battery loaded with music feels GOOD.
Posted to Twitter at 7:15 p.m.
Nothing’s working as expected today. eg. Every application on my work PC can print, except Microsoft Office. Giving up and going home.
Posted to Twitter at 5:41 p.m.
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts
Trent Reznor releases a new NIN album as online download with “premium” collectors offerings. Notable differences to the Radiohead “In Rainbows’ download include a) It’s CC BY-NC-SA licensed, so you can remix it however you like and b) The first part has been “officially” seeded to BitTorrent in a shareware stylee.
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