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And yes, there’s a difference. I started researching AllOfMP3 about a month ago after hearing about it for the first time from a friend, while at their place for dinner. I read through all the spiel, the Russian Federation, Russian Licensing, The Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS), lawsuits, et cetera. One of the best [...]

Apparently at least a few people think that the iPhone will be a hit: Ticker Company Phone AAPL Apple iPhone RIMM Research In Motion Blackberry PALM Palm Treo I first saw a screenshot similar to this on a Flickr photo stream belonging to Dave Shea (a fellow Vancouverite, I might add). I jumped over to [...]

As we go through life on a day-to-day basis, we are surrounded with real-life scenarios that we often compare to programming scenarios. One great example of this was published by Spolsky a couple years ago in The Best Software Writing I. The piece was called Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit and was originally written [...]

I’ve come across two amazing looking non-profits in these past few days, one thanks to Mike Cannon-Brookes and another thanks to Bruce Tate. The non-profits would be Kiva.org and ChangingThePresent respectively. These are both phenomenal ideas. I haven’t used ChangingThePresent, but as soon as I saw Mike’s entry – I jumped in for the Kiva [...]

Yes. I’m aware. Maybe I’m the only one, but I can’t seem to keep a Rails app running on TextDrive for more than a day without it being killed-off by their reaper. I didn’t have time to move the site over the holidays, I was in Vietnam for a week, and then my parents-in-law arrived [...]

I totally love John Gruber (albeit in a very manly, platonic sort of way). After waking up to knowing you have a 90+ page API manual from UPS to go through to integrate some simple shipping costs, his Conjectural Transcript between Apple and Universal for the upcoming negotiations for iTunes pricing gunk had me in [...]

I had a bit of time this weekend to upgrade to SimpleLog 1.5rc3. Garrett hasn’t talked about this release on the site yet (current is 1.2.1), but I really wanted to integrate comments and ‘static’ page support. The upgrade was painless, but took me a couple of hours because I had made some customizations to [...]

I’ve grown tired. I really have. It seems almost paradoxical that one can love what they do so much (software engineering, problem solving) – and yet grow so tired of feebly attempting to answer the inevitable question: “So, what is it you do, exactly?” It becomes more complicated in that much of my work is [...]

There was something else I wanted to write about, but when I came to do so my site was throwing the Joyous 500 Internal Server Error for the third time in as many days. As soon as I have the time – I hope to get off this steaming pile of crap (TextDrive) and go [...]

I’d never heard of TED before Saturday night. Carly and I were having dinner with some friends and one of ‘the guys’ had mentioned he’d been watching the TEDTalks videos. I had to go take a peak (like any geek would) – and was really surprised to see that Rick Warren had been invited as [...]