My friend Adam challenged me to turn an email thread we had into a blog post, and this is the result. Actually, the real challenge was to post a certain phrase in context, but you’ll have to read on to discover what […]
TUAW reports that Apple has confirmed the iPhone to be a closed system like the iPod — no developer SDK and no third party applications. If true, this is a major bummer; Apple is setting itself up to be the only smart […]
I was recently offered the opportunity (and a Starbucks gift card) to evaluate Palore, a service that’s apparently huge in Israel and is in the process of adding support for the US. At a high level, Palore is a browser extension (currently […]
In 1995, when I was a freshman at Stanford, a former co-worker of my mom’s invited me to brunch with some of his friends. I was eager to meet some people from the Silicon Valley tech world and happily biked over to […]
I’ve been working on my first flash app, a simple set of controls to record audio from a microphone through a web page. This is about the most basic thing you can do with Flash Media Server, but I was having this […]
Back when I originally posted about my first success making Dole Whip at home, I was happy enough just to get the flavor right. But even then, I knew the consistency was way off. My homemade Dole Whip was icy and more […]
About a week ago, we released an updated SpotDJ with a totally redesigned web site and without the invitation-required restriction we had previously used to keep signups under our close control. The launch got a fair amount of attention. We were covered […]
Dole Whip is a non-dairy frozen dessert. The most popular flavor, pineapple, can be found at Disneyland and precious few other places. The first time I went to Disneyland (or possibly Disney World), my dad ordered a Dole Whip from the unassuming […]
More random people continue to IM me thinking I’m somebody else, despite the fact that I’ve set up my client to only allow messages from my list of contacts (this would seem to be a bug). [15:44] kelly2171: Still alive? [15:44] klep: […]
I’ve been (gradually) listening to The Comedies of Fair Use, the free downloadable audio version of an NYU symposium on copyfighting and whatnot that took place back in April. It’s incredibly interesting, and I’m not generally the type of person who listens […]