Category Archives: Technology

Google+ Is What I Want Facebook To Be

While it’s still very early in the process for Google+, already I’m see­ing things they are doing that I wish Face­book did. The pri­mary dif­fer­ence for me is the Cir­cles com­po­nent of Google+. From the descrip­tion: Google+ Cir­cles helps you orga­nize every­one accord­ing to your real-life social connections–say, ‘fam­ily,’ ‘work friends,’ ‘music bud­dies,’ and ‘alumni’. …

July 3, 2011 – 1:18 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

When Pair Programming Goes Too Far

A pic­ture really is worth a thou­sand words.

February 3, 2009 – 5:37 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Technology | Comments (0)

Live Search Seems Pretty Broken

So after see­ing a very odd spike in traf­fic to my blog today regard­ing Cross­fit, I went to Live Search to see why quite a few peo­ple were find­ing my hum­ble cor­ner of the tubes. As it turns out, if you search for “cross­fit train­ing” using Live Search, I’m num­ber four in the result list …

October 27, 2008 – 2:35 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Google Is Starting To Scare Me

I wrote a post this morn­ing at 11:10 AM detail­ing get­ting Clo­jure set up on my sys­tem and I briefly men­tioned that I would prob­a­bly try both Vim and Komodo as edi­tors. At 3:39 PM, some­one had come to my site from Google using the key­words “clo­jure komodo”. I don’t think I’m ever going to …

October 26, 2008 – 5:55 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Windows 7

So will Vista be the 21st century’s Win­dows ME now that Win­dows 7 is looming?

October 16, 2008 – 9:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

No More TV For You, Old Person

Genius.

October 13, 2008 – 9:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Technology | Comments (0)

The Dark Side Of Multitasking

There is one, you know? Even if you think there isn’t. The Daily Pal­lia­tive: Frustration

August 1, 2008 – 7:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Becoming Arthur Miller

So Steve Yegge has graced us with another post tome huge honkin’ bunch of loosely asso­ci­ated words chock full of spin off ideas. The gist of said words is that Joel Spolsky’s “Smart and Gets Things Done” is a really great way to hire clones of your­self but that for var­i­ous rea­sons (namely that you …

June 18, 2008 – 9:41 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming, Technology | Comments (2)

You Really Want The Leftmost Button or Possibly No Button At All

Have you ever watched some­one repeat­edly do some­thing over and over again even though it didn’t do what he thought it did? Like in The Princess Bride when Vizzini kept say­ing things were incon­ceiv­able even though those very things had already in fact hap­pened and thus, could not by any def­i­n­i­tion of the word be …

June 4, 2008 – 5:32 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Technology | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Importance of Being Interrupted

With apolo­gies to Oscar Wilde, I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts on try­ing to do men­tally dif­fi­cult things in small highly seg­mented blocks of time. Some agile devo­tees advo­cate a term called Rad­i­cal Col­lo­ca­tion which essen­tially boils down to stick­ing an entire team in a sin­gle room for the length of the project. …

February 28, 2008 – 10:44 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming, Technology | Comments (3)