For sometime now I have known that my time at COSL was running out. I wasn’t sure exactly when it would expire, but last Friday basically became my last day. I know that there have been various issues surrounding the center, but think what you may it would be hard to find a gathering of…
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Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE
I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful. When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up for a…
The COSL Guys are Disgusting
First there was the joke about bacon chocolate chip cookies. Sure somebody did it and it was funny. Then Jeremy actually made them and brought them to game night and people ate them. Thinking about it makes me dry heave. Now Tom brings us Mini Mos (chocolate) bacon bars. My stomach may never recover.
What I Do for a Living
People ask me what I do for a living and I gave up explaining a long time ago. Now I just say I write software and for those that don’t understand that I tell them I work with computers. (No I will not fix yours). In spite of my general disdain for explaining what I…
Shelley Found her Google Bomb
Kharma delivered a gift to Shelley, the insane devil woman this week in the form of a google bomb. Consider it a wedding gift!
New Website for Academic Types
We have started a new site for those who are academic in nature. As part of what we do at COSL we have Brian Lamb helping us out with research. As we searched for good research questions our we had to ask ourselves if the questions had already been asked which means that we started…
Review of Ozmozr code at Ruby Mountain West Conference
Jamis Buck blogged about the code review of Ozmozr he and Marcel did at the Mountain West Ruby Conference. The presentation was our favorite because of the insight it gave into our code and I think we came away as better programmers for it. Here is the link to the presentation on Conference Freaks and…
ozmozr is out there
We (COSL) just spent the last three months putting together a piece of software called Ozmozr. I figured that since know one knows us and since we don’t market it would be a while before anyone found us. I was wrong. We have people signing up every hour or so now. That is nothing for…