Surely there is nothing more superfluous and redundant than another photo-sharing app. But I had an idea for one that would be based primarily on a swipe gesture, so here it is in all senses of the phrase “for what it’s worth.”
Category Archives: misc
fireeagle figured out!
August 12, 2008 – 11:17 pm
UPDATE Belay that. FireEagle not figured out Damn, that was hard (for me). I finally have my tiny scratch of a twitter & location Web app (“twiphlo”) updating not only twitter’s profile location, but also fire eagle. It’s still hacky, but it works. If you are one of my 12 4 regular users and that [...]
HOWTO: Make a Mac development environment with Eclipse, Subversion, Apache, MySQL+phpmyadmin, and PHP5
June 29, 2008 – 11:49 am
At my job they use a more elaborate setup for development than I’ve been used to (the Very Special engineer that I am). It has some advantages over the quick ‘n dirty approach I’ve used, but it has proved to be extremely tricky to set up. So I thought I would share the set of [...]
the banality of parity
May 11, 2006 – 8:14 am
The launches of AIM Pages and MySpace Messenger fill me with ennui. It is encouraging to see so many people and companies pursuing what is ultimately a good thing for everyone (social applications and media), but I think that here, as with so many other social applications, the product capability precedes a useful or fun [...]
Damn, Wrong Again!
April 1, 2006 – 2:23 pm
Francis Fukuyama is one of the smartest people who writes about politics (as far as I can tell), yet he is also consistently wrong in his assertions and theories.* In the early 90s his very influential essay The End of History and the Last Man, he proposed that geopolitics had reached a resting place with the fall of the USSR, that the world would tend toward stable democracy.** That didn’t turn out to be quite true, to say the least…. After Sept.11, 2001, Fukuyama and a collection of other intellectuals that have come to be known as the neoconservatives argued for a military approach to taking on the threat of Islamic terrorism, arguing that the United States must promote Western values and political systems worldwide, and not tolerate challenges to its authority.
Fluid Expectations
January 19, 2004 – 9:52 pm
The nomination, which seemed to be Dean’s to lose, is now up for grabs going into the New Hampshire primary. Democrats, whose choice in Iowa reflects a very fluid and changeable sensibility, seem to have had second thoughts about Howard Dean. Kerry likely seemed the stronger candidate than Gephardt, and Edwards seems to be everyone’s [...]
Swing vs. Base
December 3, 2003 – 12:26 pm
In the past two presidential elections, political consultants had created the conventional wisdom that the electorate was evenly divided between Democrats
The Actual Choice
November 28, 2003 – 7:59 pm
With his visit to Baghdad, George Bush has even more closely tied his presidency to what transpires in Iraq. Most American people, the U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and most Iraqis very much want to believe in the promise implied by the president’s visit: that he is personally invested in taking a very hard situation and [...]