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Breaking the brain crack habit

July 12, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Thanks to Ze Frank’s 07-11-06 episode (transcript), I realize that I am indeed a brain crack addict:

[…] I run out of ideas every day! Each day I live in mortal fear that I’ve used up the last idea that’ll ever come to me. If you don’t wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute them. You can tell yourself that you don’t have the time or resources to do ’em right. Then they stay around in your head like brain crack. No matter how bad things get, at least you have those good ideas that you’ll get to later.

Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed. And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals. And everyone’s clapping for them. But the, but the, but the, but the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do ’em. And no matter how much you plan you still have to do something for the first time. And you’re almost guaranteed the first time you do something that it’ll blow. But somebody who does something bad three times still has three times the experience of that other person who’s still dreaming of all the applause. When I get an idea, even a bad one, I try to get it out into the world as fast as possible, ’cause I certainly don’t want to be addicted to brain crack.

Time to start breaking that awful brain crack habit of mine.

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Jacob Rosenberg’s brief history of web servers at AOL

July 11, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Another AOL employee, Jacob Rosenberg, has started blogging. He’s got the unenviable task of making sure our stuff at AOL keeps running as he’s part of the Operations group. Today, he writes a brief history of various web servers that have come out of AOL in the past several years, including AOLserver.

Go on, show him some love and subscribe to Jacob’s blog and leave him some comments. Lets welcome another AOL voice to the blogosphere!

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Car mix CD, July 2006

July 7, 2006 by 4 Comments

This past weekend I spent reviewing what CD’s I have in the car, shuffling some music out and shuffling some new music in. As part of this, I burned another mix CD, dubbed Car Mix, July 2006. To give folks an idea of my broad musical tastes (or lack thereof), here’s the playlist for your amusement:

  1. Runaway Train (4:26), Soul Asylum (Grave Dancers Union)
  2. No Rain (3:37), Blind Melon (Blind Melon)
  3. Tones Of Home (4:26), Blind Melon (Blind Melon)
  4. My Sharona (4:56), The Knack (Reality Bites)
  5. Locked Out (3:19), Crowded House (Reality Bites)
  6. Tempted 1994 (4:07), Squeeze (Reality Bites)
  7. But Anyway (4:09), Blues Traveler (Blues Traveler)
  8. Hello, Little Girl (2:33), Robert Westenberg, Danielle Ferland (Into The Woods)
  9. A Teenager In Love (2:53), Dion & The Belmonts (Live At Madison Square Garden 1972)
  10. Runaround Sue (8:07), Dion & The Belmonts (Live At Madison Square Garden 1972)
  11. Little Diane (4:35), Dion & The Belmonts, (Live At Madison Square Garden 1972)
  12. Burn Up (4:32), Siouxsie & the Banshees (Peepshow)
  13. I See (3:50), Letters To Cleo (Aurora Gory Alice)
  14. Step Back (2:33), Letters To Cleo (Aurora Gory Alice)
  15. Accidentally Like A Martyr (3:41), Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy)
  16. The Origin Of Love (6:03), Hedwig And The Angry Inch
  17. Bitchin’ In The Kitchen (2:31), Cliff De Young & Jessica Harper (Shock Treatment)
  18. Duel Duet (2:06), Cliff Young (Shock Treatment)

These songs were specifically chosen because they evoke fairly specific memories about particular people from my past, or in some cases, specific moods or emotions that I was feeling at a certain point in time. In a way, these songs hold a special place in my heart, like a treasured photograph. I listen to these songs and they unlock whole portions of my long term memory. This is both good and bad, but I’m starting to realize it’s all good now, since it’s in the past and I can’t change it. I can only learn from it and make the present and future better.

If you’ve known me long enough and remember any of these tunes playing in my car when we hung out, or you’ve sung these songs with me, or listen to the lyrics and think they make me think about you … that’s something special we share together. Maybe it’d be fun to get together and do it again sometime.

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Japanese Pastafarians and Pilates, huh?! Non sequiturs abound!

July 7, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Taking a quick break while working tonight, I decided to surf some USENET and saw this message in alt.religion.pastafarianism:

coj wrote:

I just saw “The complete book of Pilates”

Shivel me timbels…one flom your lockel Jones San?

To my Japanese Pilates bretheren, I say, “ALLLLLLLLL!” (Of course, the Japanese know that ninjas are cooler …)

(If this makes absolutely no sense to you, perhaps you should brush up on your Engrish.)

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jQuery 1.0a (alpha) released June 30, 2006

July 6, 2006 by Leave a Comment

John Resig announces jQuery 1.0a (alpha). If you do any client-side Javascript, you owe it to yourself to check out jQuery. If you’re a developer of a JS library, you really ought to pay attention to what John’s doing in jQuery, because he’s doing things right.

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AOL Open Services Developer Conference Summer 2006, June 28-29

June 29, 2006 by Leave a Comment

So, I’m down in Northern Virginia this week for the AOL Open Services Developer Conference Summer 2006, open to AOL Technologies employees, to see and hear about all kinds of stuff that is happening and to talk about where we’re headed in the next few months. The day started out with Sree Kotay starting it off followed by Jon Miller reaffirming that we’re seriously in a transformational phase of AOL’s existance.

The conference is themed around the Lord of the Rings trilogy (natch, as it’s a Time Warner asset). Here, you can see my swank conference badge:

AOL Open Services Developer Conference Summer 2006

I’ve posted a few other photos, which I’ve tagged AOL Open Services Developer Conference Summer 2006.

Overall, the first day of the conference was successful from my experience. I attended some great sessions and saw some promising demos, which I don’t think I can openly discuss here in this space, unfortunately. (Maybe I can, I’ll have to ask.) But, what I can tell you is this: if management is serious about what has been said at this conference, I think AOL is going to genuinely surprise everyone who’s counted them out and keeps asking “so why doesn’t AOL have <X>?”

As I said to Sree tonight, “AOL has to start playing to win, not just play to be in the game.” Funny enough, I think if we did play to win, we actually stand a chance of doing it. I’d really like to see it happen.

UPDATE: Armughan Javaid blogs about the conference and has a Flickr set, too.

UPDATE: Sree blogs about it, too.

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AOLserver 4.5.0 released June 27, 2006

June 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment

The long-awaited next version of AOLserver 4.5.0 has been released today! To get an idea of what’s changed, check out the release notes or for the geekier version, the ChangeLog. To download the latest source tarball, click here: aolserver-4.5.0-src.tar.gz.

Here are the various places the announcement was posted:

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