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Joel has a new book. Like his book on ui design, its basically a bunch of his columns bound together but since I feel the same way about Joel’s work on programming as I do about tolstoy’s on religion, I’ve already one-clicked it.

Bill has been making some good comments about evils of MMO games on his blog. One of the most evil aspects of MMO games is how they can dominate your real life. With devices like TIVO we have finally taken some control of our lives back from the television. We can stop the show to…

I’m the last person anyone should take investment advice from, but I got some good advice recently to share. “If you want to reduce volatility in your portfolio, check it less often.”

I recently had my Sony DSC-P1 digital camera stolen while in Zion. We drove to the nearest town and purchased a P93. Its pretty fun because it actualy takes decent movies [12.1MB]. I think my favorite thing I like about it tho is that it can take normal AAs when you haven’t be able to…

This is a nice site to track the current polls in the the presidental race. Hmm. rsjm just commented that this one is better. It sure is more purdy.

Without a doubt my current favorite writer is Tolstoy. Mostly for his religious writings and the views behind them. People who like Tolstoy but are not religious often dismiss his more philisophical works as the ravings of an old man (in which they are party correct). Many people who do consider themselves Religious will dismiss…

This is my favorite web app. I haven’t tried all the news aggregators but this one works well and It works from anywhere including my treo. The new version came out a few weeks ago and had lots of improvements including sorting the feed list by number of unread posts. You can save an entry…

From Microsoft: “Microsoft said it expects to add 3,000 employees at its Redmond, Washington headquarters and in the Puget Sound region” Link And From Microsoft: “Software developers, I’ve got one word for you: www.yourjobisgoingtoindia.com. That’s right. Your job is going to India, princess. Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.” Link…

Firefox really does rock. If you still aren’t using it. Here’s some more reasons to. You can just type the first few letters of the link text to select links and then hit enter to go there. You can type / and then some letters to search for text on the page The Web Developer…

I was talking with someone the other day about negative ads and why there are so many of them. The reason why they exist is of course because they work. How they work is not always completely understood. Icepick explained to me a long time ago that the point of a negative ad by Bush…