August 2008
15 posts
WatchAmazing new Firefox plugin. Still in Alpha stages, but incredible already.
“Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish...”
– Mac is too cool for Photosynth
Ideas →
Further proof that ideas in and of themselves rarely represent value. The real value is how the idea is implemented and distributed.
Listen
My twitter profile brandishes a quote from Hemingway that goes as follows:
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
I’d like to to clarify that a bit, or at least what it means to me. People speak and others listen all the time, so how is this any different?
The main thing to consider is this: do you really listen, especially at...
“For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
– Hemingway’s famous six-word novel that his friends bet him he couldn’t write.
Fonolo
Fonolo is a startup with a different take on contacting big companies with large, complicated phone trees. The company has written software to spider phone trees and create a web-based picker tool.
Once you traverse the web-generated tree, Fonolo will dial that company, follow the path you set up and then wait on hold for you. Once your call is connected, your callback number is dialed.
...
Why is there a ‘w’ in answer? That’s kind of like respbonse…
“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there...”
– Ernest Hemingway
Atheist Finds Nothing in His Toast →
via Kottke
FYI Design Studio
I just received the new Burton catalog and in it was an awesome story (p89) about FYI Design Studio who is responsible for Burton’s [ak] clothing line. The studio is situated in the middle of the mountains in Pemberton, British Columbia.
Inside the studio they surround themselves with state-of-the-art equipment and the finest fabrics to produce the most innovative products. They then test...
Parsing Free space Output
Here’s a really short regex that can be used to parse free space output and verify each mounted disk has at least 89% free space. This comes in handy if you do any of your own systems monitoring that include *nix boxes.
So let’s say you have this output from various machines:
db: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 47G 3.1G 41G 7% / /dev/sda1 ...
“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then...”
– Ayrton Senna (Greatest F1 driver of all time)
[UPDATE: Check out my tribute blog to Ayrton Senna!]
“I don’t like country and western. I don’t like rock music, I don’t like...”
– Pet Shop Boys