Archive for March, 2006

DemoCamp 4.0 The Resurrection!

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

As one might have gleamed from my write up of DemoCamp 3.0, I was half suspecting that the monthly “uncampference” would take a serious leap over the shark. I’m happy to say I don’t think it has, although it’s certainly not out of the lake (lake sharks?) yet.
I think one change that significantly impacted my […]

links for 2006-03-25

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

How do you Rate?
Nice little article for how to calculate an hourly rate as a freelancer or business owner.
(tags: finances money business)

Q-Success - Guerilla Tactics of Project Management
A satirical approach to software project management
(tags: humor business)

Say it like you “mean” it.

Friday, March 24th, 2006

The Gallery Of “Misused” Quotation Marks is a collection of, well, “Misused” quotation marks. As someone who has a “self identified” problem with this sort of misuse, paled only by my blatent abuse of the elipsis… I found the site rather funny.
[ via chrisnolan.ca ]

links for 2006-03-23

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Macworld: Secrets: Ad hoc networking, Page 1
Network two Macs directly via thier WiFi connection.
(tags: osx mac)

Summersault Weblog | ยป Publishing Flash videos with free, open source tools
Howto use open source tools to compile .FLV from another codec via the command line.
(tags: video utilities opensource howto)

links for 2006-03-22

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Megapixel Calculator - digital camera resolution [forret.com web tools]
Tell your clients what size photo you need in MB’s instead of resolution.
(tags: photography tools)

deviantART: Death and Taxes: … by ~mibi
See where the US budget is getting spent in a “suitable for framing” kind of way.
(tags: art economics politics design)

Podcasting for business, meetcasting?

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

I’ve never understood podcasting. It’s not that I don’t think it’s a good idea for long tail radio, that I understand. What has always confused me about it is why business cares about it at all.
I’m sure a big portion is the “pod” part, and by “pod” I mean someone in the company said “I […]

ReviewHaiku :: 2001 Maniacs

Monday, March 20th, 2006

2001 Maniacs (2005)
Fairly faithfull take,
on H.G.Lewis Classsic.
The South has risen.

Curry Flavored Potato Chips

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

I knew there was some, unforeseeable at the time, reason I moved to Toronto… and last night that reason revealed itself in the form of Lay’s new “Spicy Curry” flavored potato chips.
Several years ago I had the good fortune to happen upon a similar treat while on a junk food binge in London. Unfortunately, despite […]

Dell the first name in porno.

Friday, March 17th, 2006

With all the bad buzz Dell has been getting online, it’s good to see that some folks still love thier Dell’s

[ sort of via dvorak.org ]

links for 2006-03-16

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
(tags: attention business economics)

The Power of Many: Beyond Folksonomies at SXSW
(tags: folksonomy)

11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks
(tags: del.icio.us howto)

co.mments
Comment tracking webservice.
(tags: blogging)

Pulp Morgue
(tags: horror art design pulp)