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Steven Frank cover’s Dell’s latest Press Release Pitiful, really.

A lesson from Joel on Office Design: Bottom Line it For Me. The monthly rent for our offices, when fully occupied, will run about $700 per employee. The build-out was done on budget and paid for almost entirely by the landlord. I suspect that $700 per person is on the high side for software developers [...]

My blog was quoted in an article published in the August 2003 issue of International Journal of Entreprenuership and Innovation. The article is called Internet Review: Entrepreneurial blogging. The full article isn’t available online, but it’s a good quick read. The Director of IP Publishing, John Edmundson, was good enough to send me a copy [...]

I cleaned up my blogroll today. I also cleaned up the right sidebar of the home page of this weblog… I did this for a few reasons, most of all to get the page-load time down on this page (blogrolling.com returns the blogroll feed slowly sometimes) and to cut down on the referrer spam that [...]

Today, a friend of mine called me to tell me that Fry’s had a 17″ Powerbook (refurbished) on sale for $2599 if you bought it in-store, and that they had a limited supply available. He’d read it in the newspaper advertisement, so I quickly grabbed my newspaper and looked for the ad. I found it, [...]

Long overdue (sorry for dumping so many links in one post). Design and Development: Information Pollution #26 – The myth of discoverability Friday Feast #55: Friendly, Lasting URLs (Lots of outbound links on this one) A case against file extensions Article URLs week: Principles Future-proof Movable Type URLs Howto: Future-proof URLs in Movable Type Doing [...]

I’ve been having problems with Safari crashing a lot lately, and I had no idea why, until I read a post from RailHeadDesign (no permalink, so I’ve quoted in full here): Safari Been Eating CPU Cycles Lately? Last month I started noticing Safari suddenly locking-up, taking 75% to 130% of my processor(s), constantly needing to [...]

For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been eyeing a new Powerbook for the house. CompUSA’s 18-month same as cash offer is really what set the wheels in motion for the household decision-maker (which isn’t me by the way) to think about the idea of buying a second home laptop. I called the two local [...]

Ok, if I’m to believe this post on fool.com, then it seems that CompUSA really is offering no-payments for 18 months on Apple products, but I can’t find an official word on this anywhere on the internet (CompUSA’s website only mentions a 6 month deal), just the Dealmac post and this story at fool.com. Anyone [...]

Frank has really expanded his iServe idea (from November)… I’d love to see what he’s envisioned in my house. I agree with him on the value to small work-groups, and as a guy working in a company that has many small work-groups and owns a few XServe’s, I think we’d likely buy a few iServe’s [...]

Found at MarketingWonk: Feeding Ads Through Feeds A reader of Lockerknome wrote this: If RSS just becomes another polluted source of noise, it will be no better than email or the Web are right now. If an RSS feed is going to have ads interspersed with content, itís not saving me time. What made RSS [...]

Translation from the Googlese: Deconstructinng the Blogger Pro announcement Ý Interesting development. Blogger Pro is going to be a free product… I hope that means good things for the blog world.

Worth reading to any Macintosh-using developer or dabbler: BBEdit Version Control by John Gruber [via Daring Fireball] Thanks John.

“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison (1847-1931) Don’t miss out on an opportunity because it looks like work.

Well, Andy finally spilled the beans about Up2Speed becoming MarketingWonk. It’s a really funny story, if you’re interested in what’s happening with the old MarketingFix (why we didn’t go back to the original brand, I have no idea). Read on… Oh, and always listen to marketing professionals because they always know what they’re talking about

After receiving many tips and cautions about buying a new Powerbook this weekend, I decided to hold off. I still haven’t confirmed the CompUSA promotion about buying a new Macintosh and getting a good financing deal yet, but I will prior to the end of this coming week. I also learning something thanks to the [...]

totally worth watching: Mad Cow (make sure that you’re sound is on… but don’t have your sound too loud if you’re at work) Enjoy…

The wife and I took a few minutes this past weekend to drop into the local CompUSA to check out the new G5 and look at the Powerbook options available to us today. I really liked the G5, as it’s a very clean design sitting next to a big Apple flatscreen monitor, but what really [...]