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Late night Coding XML

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Software Development Company turns into an Arbitrage Company.

37signals, on of my favorite software development companies, and creators of the Ruby on Rails Framework, have made the move into a whole new territory. They have essentially decided that it is easier to bring together content and content consumers than it is to create markets.  Nice insight.  A few years back they did the same [ READ MORE ]

Miss California

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Geurilla marketing versus relevant marketing

Guerrilla v. Marketing v. Now – Alex Cassoni – 2009 10 26 View more presentations from Hello Group. Old Colleagues from Hello giving the 5 minutes info drunk [ READ MORE ]

cURL

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Farewell Thomas Peake

  • September 27th, 2009
  • Posted in people

Thom A Speake.  This was his facebook user name. Thomas was more than a word smith, he was an artist with lexical paint.  In response to the news that Thomas was dead (sadly delivered not in person, or in comfort of voice but by Facebook message) my good friend and mentor Dr. David Ray wrote: It’s impossible [ READ MORE ]

Three Frames

  • July 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Review

Hat tip to the fellas at Projectionist, thanks for tuning me into threeframes.net [ READ MORE ]

Stupid question causes shit storm

Recently I posed the question  “What do you think about an open Salary policy, total transparency in compensation at a company that is less than 40 people, is this a good idea? Or a recipe for disaster?”   I received a Lot of Responses.  I can’t Imagine what would have happened if I had asked : [ READ MORE ]

Transparency is good, but scary

Recently I posed the question to my LinkedIn network, “What do you think about an open Salary policy, total transparency in compensation at a company that is less than 40 people, is this a good idea? Or a recipe for disaster?” The response was an overwhelmingly… BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD IDEA. But i cannot believe how much a firecracker this quesiton was. [ READ MORE ]

Ezra’s Casket

When our baby Soren died a few years back, one of the most cathartic experiences I had was working with our friend and master carpenter to build a tiny casket from some brazillian wood, with pegs and glue only.  Rami helped me make it pretty ornately, but it was no bigger than shoe box.  I was [ READ MORE ]