If you are accustomed to working in an office you’ll be familiar with the myriad of conference calls, meetings and ‘brainstorming’ events that waste most people’s days. While most people assume that the most effective method of coming up with new ideas is to gather everyone close to a whiteboard and lock the doors the…
Category: rant
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…
Weddings So Totally Suck
Weddings suck. Everything about them, surrounding them and having to do with them is really quite inane. Although I am sure I will take a lot of crap for writing this which may or may not result in a dissolution of a certain matrimony which required such an event, I am going to do it…
No I Won’t Fix Your @!#$!@#$ Computer
I am a software engineer. That means a lot of things. It means I can write code. It means I can talk about servers and argue about what programming languages are best (Check out PPH for the standard measure for programming languages.) It means I can build a cool website or write scripts that help…
Why the medical industry sucks
There is no doubt in my mind that the practitioners in the world of medicine really want to help. At least all the doctors and nurses I have run into have been kind and helpful. However, as I sit here tonight I have 7 probes attached to my body and they itch like hell. On…