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Continue reading →: Retroactive tax on people that took big
Retroactive tax on people that took big risk on small companies. Good job California. http://ow.ly/hXjPq #fail #taxreform
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Continue reading →: Kind words from a zebrareach merchant!
Kind words from a zebrareach merchant! http://ow.ly/hImsS
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Continue reading →: *Very* nice summary of PCI @ http://ow.l
*Very* nice summary of PCI @ http://ow.ly/djOMr
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Continue reading →: My (nearly) perfect computer
Wow, did I make a good choice. In late August I upgraded from my trusty 15″ MacBook Pro (late 2008) to a 11″ MacBook Air (mid-2011). I was pretty nervous about the switch. I’ve been the productive owner of a 17″ Power Book so this represented a fundamental change.
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Continue reading →: Electronics and airplanes
I fly a bit for work and play. Of all the regulations that require compliance the worst are the limitations on the use of electronics “during takeoff and landing.” When you’re flying in and out of large markets the “takeoff and landing” portion of the flight can be an hour…
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Continue reading →: Online Media Law
If you’re involved in online media and/or journalism and haven’t looked at the Poynter Institute‘s News University (at http://www.newsu.org/), you are missing out. This weekend I took the Online Media Law course (self-paced). I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject. I started the course by taking the assessment.…
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Continue reading →: 2011 Semantic Technology Conference
Last week I was fortunate to attend the 2011 Semantic Technology conference at the San Francisco Hilton at Union Square. Given the length (Sun – Thu) of the conference and its technical detail the notes from the conference will be divided into individual articles. In this first post I need…
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Continue reading →: Golden age of graph innovation
If you’re interested in things local and social (e.g., Zope Corporation‘s customers) you should read Chris Dixon’s excellent (and short) blog post about graphs. As Dixon points out a graph is the real “secret sauce” at Facebook. This graph lets us reason about Steve, Mary and Joe (they all know…
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Continue reading →: Large print giveth; the fine print taketh away
As Tom Waits (an American singer, songwriter, composer) once said, “The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away.” Truer words have not have been spoken. From the You-Have-Got-To-Be-Sh^H^H Kidding Me Department… As reported on ReadWriteWeb on April 28, 2011 the GPS manufacturer TomTom was caught with its hand…
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Continue reading →: Pain-free tables in emacs – who knew?
At Zope Corporation we write a LOT of content in reStructuredText. From the reStructuredText site: reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. reStructuredText is designed…
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