In the spirit of Independence Day and in honor of my favorite muppet ever (Beaker), I give you something totally new to the Internet: “culture, morality, and patriotism”.

The Back of the Napkin has been on my to buy/read list for while now.  The idea is that problems can be solved (and ideas can be sold) with simple pictures to illustrate. The author just won a contest for best presentation.  Here’s the presentation and it happens to explain the healthcare problems that are all the rage today with amazing simplicity and clarity. So if you’re like me, and you didn’t know anything about [...]

My wife bought me a bunch of Foo Fighter’s CDs for my birthday.  When I get CD’s I promptly rip them to mp3 and throw them in a box, never to see them again, but for some reason I still would rather have the actual CD instead of buying it on iTunes.  Anyway, this one threw me for a loop when I popped it in: Obviously it’s not a Michael Bolton CD, so I chose [...]

“The Digg Effect” refers to the massive amounts of traffic that Digg would send to the sites hosting it’s front page articles. For those in the crowd, Digg is a social news aggregation site where articles are submitted and then the general populous “Diggs” them up or down.  The algorithms are unknown and changing, but the general idea is that enough people Digg your stuff fast enough, you end up on the front page of [...]

A while ago, I wrote about gSyncIt which syncs your Outlook Calendars to Google Calendar. After playing with the free/trial version, I ran into a few problems. I worked with it for 1 week or so, but when syncing (which was quite slow) constantly ran into problems with object references pointing to null objects. It was the same calendar item each time and even though I had my settings to continue syncing on failure, that [...]