Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Yahoo committed seppuku today. (Jason Calacanis/The Jason Calacanis ...)Written in Techmeme on July 29th.
I added it to my “starred items” in Google Reader at 21:17 on July 29th.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog: Yahoo committed seppuku today. — The once proud warrior of the internet space laid down its sword, knelt at the feet of Microsoft and gutted itself today. There was no honor in this death, it was one brought by the shame of losing to Google and a lack of faith in one's ability to compete in the space they created.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Language Log » Fucking shut the fuck upBookmarked on del.icio.us at 23:23.
Tags: genius, languagelog, linguistics, swear
I love the Language Log. Only on the Language Log would you get a sentence like this:
[E]ver since “fuck” became a human-denoting noun (“You've killed my Burmese python, you stupid fuck!”), it has been possible for “the fuck” to occur in NP slots on a fairly broad basis. But not as a semantically inert pleonastic epithet with the affective function of conveying personal irritation.No. Absolutely not. No fucking way.
Friday, July 24, 2009
SPVPicture of Enforcement episode taken at 13:50 on July 16th.
Tags: police, railway, transport
St. Pancras station, Kings Cross, London
All in a line
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 18:02 on June 26th.
Tags: lcy, london city, london city airport, police
Big blue van, people carrier, all just hanging around. You know. Just in case.
London City Airport
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 18:02 on June 26th.
Tags: lcy, london city, london city airport, police
London City Airport
Big blue mariah
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 18:02 on June 26th.
Tags: lcy, london city, london city airport, police
Here come the big blue mariah, here come the big blue mariah
Here come the big blue mariah, I seen the big blue .. uhm .. Chevy.
Car park, London City Airport
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 18:02 on June 26th.
Tags: lcy, london city, london city airport, police
Here come the big blue mariah, I seen the big blue .. uhm .. Chevy.
Car park, London City Airport
Looking on
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 22:49 on June 23rd.
Tags: barcelona, beach, catalunya, cataluña, espana, españa, festival, fiesta, police, spain
Fiesta in Barcelona; everyone takes to the streets, legs it down to the beach to engage in a few hours' harmless fun, throwing firecrackers at each other and letting off fireworks at short range. Clearly a benign force for good, the local rozzers cast indulgent eyes across the scene.
Beachside, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 22:49 on June 23rd.
Tags: barcelona, beach, catalunya, cataluña, espana, españa, festival, fiesta, police, spain
Beachside, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Thursday, July 23, 2009
(untitled)Picture posted to Flickr by Andy(Shotage) (Andy Newson) at 18:03 on June 27th ’09
Added to my Flickr favourites at 18:54.
Tags: 5bestdogs, andy newson, d700, dogs, f-stop studios, lurcher, nikon, portrait, sighthound portraits, sighthounds, studio
Chloe
The first from a set of portraits I'm working on this weekend.
20+ sighthound portraits in the studio.
I'll be showing them at:
www.sunny16twells.com
Saturday 18th July.
The Grove, Tunbridge Wells.
Bring a picnic!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
16jul2009Written by Benjamin Black in bb on July 16th.
I added it to my “starred items” in Google Reader at 12:31 on July 22nd.
the gpl is fatally flawed, though the flaws were not obvious until online service became as prominent as they now are. attempts to update the gpl for “the cloud”, like the agpl, only serve to exacerbate the problem. more permissive licenses, such as bsd, mit, and apache, are less troublesome, though still lacking in certain areas, as i will explain…
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Software Engineering: Dead?Written by Jeff Atwood in Coding Horror on July 18th.
I added it to my “starred items” in Google Reader at 08:59 on July 19th.
I was utterly floored when I read this new IEEE article by Tom DeMarco (pdf). See if you can tell why. My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates [1986], played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects…
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Picasso: Drawing With Light - Photo Gallery, 13 Pictures - LIFEImage added to my FFFFOUND at 14:46.
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