Category Archives: Internet/Technology

Analyzing My Facebook Friends

Because I am weird (and because I only have 35 Face­book friends, mak­ing it pos­si­ble to turn my weird­ness into some data obser­va­tions), I have spent the last 10 min­utes ana­lyz­ing how many friends my friends have. On aver­age, they have 162.8857 friends (the per­son who is .8857th of a friend keeps show­ing up as …

February 15, 2010 – 11:16 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Why I Quit Twitter

I joined Twit­ter in August of this year with­out a great deal of thought and after long decry­ing the effect I was sure it had on atten­tion. I did it mostly because there are usu­ally 5–10 times a day when I have a thought or see a link that don’t war­rant a full blog post …

November 14, 2009 – 5:43 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (1)

Hope And Change In High Tech Land

I won­der how all those high tech work­ers feel after hav­ing sup­ported Obama so strongly dur­ing the elec­tion only to find out that he wants to do things like reg­u­late ven­ture cap­i­tal firms with over $30 mil­lion in man­aged money. This cov­ers most of the VC firms out there and means that they would have …

June 18, 2009 – 7:20 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology, Politics | Tagged | Comments (2)

Speaking Of Open Source

Post­greSQL is look­ing for a web designer to give their site a new look. From the mail­ing list: To help find a great designer, we’ve decided to put $2000 on the table. The first stage of the project is a design mock-up. A panel of Post­greSQL com­mu­nity mem­bers will act as judges for a $1000 (US) prize! …

May 4, 2009 – 1:17 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology, Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)

Hungarian Government Socializes Open Source

There’s some chat­ter in the inter­nets this morn­ing about Hun­gary “boost­ing” open source use by requir­ing all their civil ser­vants to spend equal amounts of money on open source soft­ware and pro­pri­etary soft­ware. Accord­ing to the linked arti­cle this “will be the first time that open source will gain equal sta­tus with pro­pri­etary ven­dors in …

May 4, 2009 – 8:16 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged | Comments (0)

Remembering What You Did Last Night

Text mes­sages from last night is my new favorite use of tech­nol­ogy. Cur­rent fave TM: (323): just ate pas­trami before pass­ing out in my hotel room. My room smells like a pet­ting zoo.

April 28, 2009 – 8:42 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (1)

Getting It All Wrong

Because the inter­net is such a big place, occa­sion­ally you will read some­thing that is so pro­foundly wrong that at first you are sure it’s par­ody and only later, does it come clear that the author is in fact earnestly try­ing to argue for some­thing based on a fun­da­men­tal mis­un­der­stand­ing of how the world works …

April 13, 2009 – 7:13 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Markets In Everything

Domes­tic Dis­ci­pline Soft­ware Yes it is what you think it is and yes it is SFW. The Inter­net is crazy.

December 5, 2008 – 6:40 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

My New Favorite Web Browsing Tool

If you are a Fire­fox user, I highly sug­gest installing Ubiq­uity. It’s a cur­rent exper­i­men­tal plu­gin for Fire­fox but it’s begin­ning to change how I surf the web, send things to peo­ple and in gen­eral, how I inter­act with the browser. Ubiq­uity is an attempt to use nat­ural lan­guage to inter­act with the browser. You …

October 10, 2008 – 9:43 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

That’s A Bunch Of Errors

Appar­ently, Microsoft is get­ting bet­ter in pre­dict­ing what’s going to hap­pen when they upgrade their soft­ware (click on the pic­ture to the left and read the yel­low box). They’ve got­ten so good that they can say users may expe­ri­ence 500 errors. Not some errors or a plethora of errors but 500 errors. Remind me not …

August 22, 2008 – 9:07 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)