Someone please sell me a solid-state drive with Windows 7 on it

The thing that computers are good at is brainless repetition. They are perfect when you’ve figured out a logical problem and need to exploit it over and over. ..

The Googlebot runs Javascript

I’ve had idle chats with techie friends wondering whether search engines such as Google simply index the raw HTML of your web page, or do they actually parse and “display” it as a true browser would. ..

Meetings are error states

Paul Graham explores the difference between the maker’s schedule and the manager’s schedule. People that know me have heard me say that “meetings are the opposite of work”. Paul offers empathy: When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. […] ..

Making good programmers feel like bad programmers

A web developer friend of mine has been doing a lot of backend-integration-type work over the last year, and has therefore has not been developing web sites. He made a point of wading back in to the web this week, so as not to get too “rusty”, in his words. ..

How to tell the new Intel SSDs from the old ones

Intel today announced faster and cheaper versions of their very impressive solid state hard drives (SSDs). I didn’t see any ship dates so I guess they are making their way into the sales channel now. ..

Known and unknown unknowns

Jeff Atwood has an article revealing some things that I’ve learned about software and business in general: the dangerous belief in certainty. ..

Is the VP of Monetizing Synergy off today?

So, I’m a bit surprised that the upcoming Web version of Office isn’t based on Silverlight (Microsoft’s “rich internet application” framework). Instead, it appears that it will be browser-native, which is to say, written in Javascript. ..

Google Maps goes physical, Gavin Newsom doing product endorsements

Walking to my client’s place this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder what-the-hell-is-that? as I approached the cafe: ..

Holy licensing costs, MasterCard

In one commercial, you’ll see Marlon Brando, Carols Santana, Marilyn Monroe and the Ramones, with a David Bowie tune in the background: ..

Javascript is now strategic for Microsoft

In this video, Chris Bryant of Microsoft makes an offhand comment that the components of the new Microsoft Office 2010 for Web are “some of the biggest Javascript applications ever built”. ..