June 2010
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April 2010
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Switching from Foursquare to Gowalla
It’s been a lot of fun lately experimenting with location based applications. With awesome platforms like Foursquare and Gowalla, it’s interesting to see what location aware social services are capable of.
The technology and the ideas are new enough that there are pretty significantly different takes on what makes a great location base service, and with my initial survey of the...
March 2010
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Google Wave's Project Manager + Twitter = Ultimate...
Travis Bradshaw: @twephanie I NEED a way to unbind esc in Wave. I'm a VIM user and casual Esc presses are losing me hours of work. :( Instant cancel, no undo
Travis Bradshaw: @twephanie esc even breaks the playback. Blip creation and deletion events are in the timeline, but the creation event has no content. :(
Steph Hannon: @tbradshaw Ag! Esc was meant to delete an accidentally created blank blip. Temp fix: it will (soon) do nothing if content in a blip.
Travis Bradshaw: @twephanie Do you have an address I can send flowers?
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Universal Medical Insurance is Not the Answer
It’s not a hedge against expense, it’s a hedge against risk. Increasing insurance coverage cannot solve for skyrocketing health care costs, and it seems like the majority of the people participating in the conversation misunderstand what insurance is and what insurance does.
Creating a simple insurance plan is trivial. Let’s say that ten of our close family and friends decide...
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WatchSports Illustrated on the iPad
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Drawing the Line; A Collection Complete
Today marks the completion of my comprehensive collection of Rock Band content. Until today, I have been purchasing every single song released for the Rock Band platform, from Country to Death Metal, deep album cuts to pop hits, Manson to Spongebob.
The experience has been wonderful. For the majority of two years, our band Big Endian (and before that, Little Endian) has celebrated Rock Band...
February 2010
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I Want to Opt-Out of Postal Service
I wish that there was some way that I could just completely opt-out of postal service. It’s a source of constant frustration that while ninety percent of everything received by postal service is junk, there are still organizations that consider “delivered in writing by U.S. post” to be the most definitive way to relay important information.
Times have changed and postal service...
January 2010
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The iPad is for a different niche!
I’ve been very excited for the Apple event today, floating blissfully somewhere between the hype and the anti-hype. For me, the iPad has delivered nicely to a set of use-cases that contains the majority of Lindsay’s daily computing and a good portion of mine.
Of course, many of my fellow geeks are lamenting the release with “it’s not good for anything” just as often...
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Freedom of Speech is Less Important Than Fixing...
The big news right now is that the Supreme Court has ruled in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee, striking down provisions of the McCain-Feingold act limiting the participation of corporations and unions in political speech.
The majority opinion (a 57 page affair) can be summarized as, “It’s unlawful for the government to block political speech from associations of...
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It Doesn't Matter Who's President When Congress is...
Today, thanks to the Change Congress mailing list I watched an amazing video by Lawrence Lessig as he explains why progressives and conservatives alike should be outraged by what has happened in the first year of the Obama administration. I thought the video was great—no great surprise there, Lessig is a brilliant speaker—and shared it via the Twitter.
My good friend, Danial Porter, replied to...
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A Google Wave Use-Case: Real-Time Collaborative...
Steph Hannon, the project manager for Google Wave, recently tweeted:
Tweet me the feature or use case you think we should focus on for Wave in 2010! Need some ideas? http://bit.ly/6LMXRr
Executive Summary
The unsupported use-case that I’m starting to see the most is the Wave collaboration situation where the wave participants are working on a “thing” embedded in the wave and...
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You're stocking your grocery store wrong!
There’s been something about searching for items at the grocery store that’s been bothering me, lately, and it took me several months to figure out exactly what’s changed. I haven’t had any specific catastrophic experiences or anything, but it’s just been harder to find some items at the grocery store, lately.
But in the last couple weeks, the answer has completely...
December 2009
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“+1 for the most complete, comprehensive response I’ve ever seen.”
– I82Much on StackOverflow.com, commenting on my answer to his question. What a great complement! Thanks, I82Much.
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http://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/ →
A very cool collection of sorting algorithm visualizations from a guy who dislikes animated sorting algorithm visualizations.
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I’ve started reading The Scar by China Miéville. I enjoyed Perdido Street Station enough that I thought I would finish out the three Bas-Lag books. (The Scar is book 2.)
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Moved blog.tbradshaw.net to tumblr
I’ve redirected the hostname for my WordPress blog to tumblr. For now that means that the content that was previously hosted on the WordPress blog is unavailable online. (Well, it’s probably available via Google’s cache for a while.)
I hope to migrate the previous content onto here, but it’s going to require a bit of custom porting. If, by some miraculous fluke, you...
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Blogging with Fewer Strings
While my blog has had spurts of activity now and again, it’s been more or less stagnant for a long time. I’ve written in the past how important I thought that blogging was. (Long story short, history has shown the extremely high value of letters and diaries but not how to tell in advance if something will be important.)
For lack of time and—most importantly—interest, I...