Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Paul Graham, the creator of Y! Combinator, recently wrote an essay in which he said "Maybe in the long term the right answer for dealing with Internet distractions will be software that watches and controls them". The link on "software" was to Rescue Time, a web site that gathers ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Last year, Kiwi Foo Camp acted as a fundraiser for my kids' local primary school. Around 60 kids, 3.5 teachers, and at the time they had around six old Windows 2000 and Windows XP boxes in various stages of decay. They'd planned to buy new computers but were ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I was editor for the first edition of Programming PHP and, like all O'Reilly books, there was a vigorous discussion with the authors about which animal should be on the cover. All the recognizable megafauna have gone and we're left with different types of birds, bugs, and fish, so ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I see in Rod Drury's blog that National have released their first real economic policy and it's to do with funding fibre-to-the-home in NZ. It's good! Anyone who travels knows how dire the bandwidth situation is here, and it's worse on the ground.
For me, bandwidth = productivity. ...
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