Archive for June, 2003
Jeff Kaufman: You Don’t Know Dean…
(Editor’s note: Apparently an e-mail of Michael Colby’s attack on Howard Dean from February is in wide circulation. One individual, Jeff Kaufman, took time to draft a reply – which itself is now circulating by e-mail. In the interest of balancing the debate, I thought it a good idea to let Kaufman’s comments get some […]
Supercharge your browser - follow-up
A number of people (Sabrina Pacifici, Jerry Lawson, Larry Staton, to name a few) linked to my article in this month’s LPM about how to add functionality to your browser. Larry quite rightly pointed out that it’s focused on IE for Windows. As a result of Larry’s post, not to mention several e-mails I […]
Carl with a K - now in XML
HOLLYWOOD MEETUP REPORT The Hollywood California meetup continues to hold strong. This month we had 115 people, up from 75 last month. We spent a good deal of time recapping the past month and Gov. Dean’s visit last Sunday for the CTA speech. We also recruited donors for a series of fund raisers Dean will […]
Homegrown development stats
I’m looking for some statistics about the costs of homegrown development. A firm I’ve been talking to is fighting a battle with their IT department – the IT department insists on building every application themselves, while marketing and management are now leaning towards buying us (a fully-built CRM system tailored to their market).
What I don’t […]
Trying really hard on the SAT
McGee’s Musings
Punting the SAT
Scholastic Aptitude Test: Answering All Questions Incorrectly. This is a knee-slapping account of one person’s attempt to achive the lowest possible score on a SAT examination. The project is fully documented, with lavish illustrations, from the original application to take the test to the white-knuckle stress of finding the wrong answer in […]
Jim McGee back in the private sector
New gig in the private sector: I’ve actually spent the bulk of my post-doctoral career on the non-academic side of the fence and I’m headed back there again. You can see the details here, although I try to avoid wearing a tie whenever possible. I find that I’m happiest working in rapidly growing environments. Kellogg […]
ActiveWords gets good press
Great press for ActiveWords in USA Today: Information springs from your fingertips.
Like Tivo, Active Words is one of those things that doesn’t seem to make much sense until you try it – at which point you can’t imagine why others don’t use it. Check it out.
Dean Meetup tonight
The Meetup phenomenon is continuing for the Dean campaign. Last month there were just around 20,000 people signed up on the Monday prior to the Meetup; in the next 36 hours more than 2,000 more people signed up. The same thing has happened again – this month there were 29,000 signed up on the Monday […]
BMW - The Ultimate Rain Gauge
It’s raining inside my car – I wonder if that is the sign of a major design flaw? Well the drought finally ended last night, and it looks like we got about 2 inches of rain. I know this because I measured the rain collection in my BMW X5’s center console cup holder. So how […]
Al Franken and Bill O’Reilly: Fireworks
WOW. If this doesn’t qualify as the most electric television on C-Span ever, I don’t know what does. (It’s a panel at BookExpo America in Los Angeles from last week.)
Molly Ivins starts out by talking about her observations about President Bush, who she’s known since high school. Then Bill O’Reilly follows. The fireworks happen when […]
