Late last year, I knocked out a little facebook app that pushed a random status message into your facebook account. I used it as an excuse to learn about the API. It was particularly good because it’s one thing to simply put content up into facebook. It’s another thing to update a user’s status. I [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Iran Months Away from Having the Bomb
June 25th, 2008
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A little over two years ago, I wrote a post called It’s Time to Destroy Iran. At that time, UN representative Mohamed ElBaradei claimed that Iran was 5 to 10 years away from having nuclear weapons. The tone of the NY Times article was one of relief that we had so long to work on [...]
Managing Money at a Startup
June 14th, 2008
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I’ve spent my entire career in small companies. The largest was when the original Clear Ink ballooned to 150 folks on three floors of a big building in Walnut Creek. Aside from running a sole proprietorship, I was employee #1 at Quantal International. I’ve been much more comfortable on the lower-headcount side of things, perhaps [...]
Gas still isn’t expensive enough to use public transportation
June 9th, 2008
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With gas getting close to $5/gallon, it’s even making me think about alternatives to driving into the office. I say even me because I’ve prided myself in keeping gas prices in perspective with inflation. When I was a teenager, comic books were still 75 cents, and gas about a dollar. I don’t buy comic books [...]
Amazon is Down!
June 6th, 2008
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A few minutes ago I saw a tweet from Dan Farber announcing that amazon.com was down. And I see that it still is. “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”. But almost immediately Twitter itself went down! Was it a coincidence or is everyone chattering on Twitter about how Amazon is down?
