Lots of very happy caffeine

You’ve got to check this out. Caffeinated lip balm made by trolls. All kinds of trolls. In Alaska.
Why is Spazzstick different from normal lip balms? It contains lots of very happy caffeine.  It also tastes way better.  We’re talking way better.
Be sure to check out the backstory. It’s hilarious.

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Too many moving parts are bad

This has been a horrendous week (well, not as bad as that one back in April where I pulled over 80 hours).
I spent the last three days trying to get Tapestry and Internet Explorer to play nice together. The task at hand — opening a popup window and displaying several uploaded documents — really [...]

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Verizon reviled, Vonage not

Seth Godin’s myth of the CMO, where he mentions Verizon as “a brand that is justifiably reviled by millions of people,” is dead on. It reminded me I promised an update a while ago, too.
It’s been about two months since we dropped Verizon and switched entirely to IP-based voice service through Vonage. Probably the most [...]

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The irrelevance of folders

It’s been a while since I read Wired. That made my latest trip to the site a pretty neat way to immerse myself in technogeek goodies for an hour or two. Here are a few of the goodies I came across.

The folder is becoming irrelevant. Apple’s recent introduction of Spotlight is getting a lot of [...]

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Big computers are silly

Seth Godin’s post on the economies of small is great. I particularly loved this bit:
I’m writing this on a laptop at a skateboard park… that added wifi for parents. Because they wanted to. It took them a few minutes and $50. No big meetings, corporate policies or feasibility studies. They just did it.
But there’s a [...]

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Real life hacking

It’s kind of odd to hear “dropping out” mentioned favorably at a Stanford commencement speech, but that’s what Steve did according to Wired:
PALO ALTO, California — Steve Jobs told Stanford University graduates Sunday that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made because it forced him to be innovative — [...]

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Poor man’s pharm

Speaking of Britney, Infoworld actually had an interesting article last month (most of the articles that I see are either too vague or too oriented toward upper management to be informative).
The looming threat of pharming provides good exposure to modern network hacking targets outside the corporate desktop. “It’s harder to pharm than to phish,” according [...]

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Britney virus

I suppose seeing your name printed in Infoworld isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for most pop stars:
Singer [Britney Spears] edges Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Osam Bin Laden as most closely associated with malicious spam.
But then, neither is being ranked along with Bill Gates and Osam Bin Laden. Oh well, as they say [...]

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Zoë

With today’s WiFi enabled world it’s pretty rare, but every now and then I find myself in a situation where getting my email isn’t easy (in other words, I don’t have my laptop with me). Most ISP’s offer some kind of web-based mail, but quite a few do not. In my case, I run my [...]

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Casting the first pod

Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote address is available (and broadcast in H.264, making it a really gorgeous webcast). I was eager to hear the news straight from the horse’s mouth.
It’s the first time I heard a really good explanation of Podcasting. Maybe I’m behind the times, but the last person to explain this to me said [...]

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Megahertz myth versus reality

There’s been some good press on the evaporation of the megahertz myth. For years, Apple has touted the superiority of the PowerPC chip’s architecture and processing power relative to Intel. The fact is, all of that still holds true.
What we have to bear in mind is simply that things change. As recently as a few [...]

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See you Intel

I think codepoet said it quite succinctly.
Well, fuck.
So there you have it. Apple has announced, in Steve’s keynote at the WWDC, that they’ll support Intel hardware.
I have to admit I’m very surprised, though I’m not sure why. “Back in the day,” I worked on NEXTSTEP on Intel processors and it was just fine. In fact, [...]

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