Was Amazon.com hacked? [update: probably not]
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, web integration | 1 Comment »Update: After further scrutiny it looks like the DNS whois was read wrong by us and we all jumped to conclusions. The response back was any domain with Amazon.com in the name. If you look at the last ...
Work that flow…
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »Doug Winnie, the Group Product Manager for Workflow at Adobe, just launched his official blog called "Workflow Experiences". I can attest to Doug's knowledge on workflow from working with him on the Scion.com redesign which we built entirely in Flex ...
Where are our mid-level developers?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 2 Comments »Over the last few years a question has been lingering within the tech community: where are all the mid-level developers? Not only is this question being asked in the tech world, but it is now beginning to be asked ...
Aggressive “Direct” Recruiting
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, JavaScript, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »It just happened again... I am sitting at my desk and the phone rings from an "unknown" number. I answer the call and it is a Michael for Coit Staffing informing that he has been looking for me. ...
Blocked from my own blog…
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Self Reference | No Comments »Its been awhile since my last post. Work has been keeping me on my toes and for the last month I have been spending all my time developing Functional and Technical Specifications. All that writing was getting to ...
Quick update…
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Fake Science, General Media / Stuff, max 2007 | No Comments »Things have been crazy hectic for me over the last few weeks. The big news is that we have decided to close down the Fake Science store. For more details check out my post on the FS Blog ...
I’ve been screwed by DRM
Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Digital Rights Management, General Media / Stuff | No Comments »Over the last three and a half years I have been commenting on how bad Digital Rights Management (DRM) is. I have ranted on the Fake Science Lab Report, kvetched on the Fake Science Blog and finally I have ...
*yawn* oh, hello
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff | No Comments »I am back... kinda. I do want to blog more but between my day job and Fake Science all my free cycles are pretty much sucked up. For the moment, I want to throw out a few quick links to ...
The Scent of Burnt Electronics
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Music, djing | No Comments »The last 7 days have been... interesting. Lots of good and lots of bad. Wednesday I went to the False Profit Equity happy hour to play a nice downtempo set. I had been working on the set for a while, ...
The future of Wi-Fi
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music, Satellite Radio | No Comments »Last night, before the weekly FS evening meeting Maer, Chris and I started discussing a recent article in the NY Times that Christopher had sent out to all the Fake Scientists. The article focuses on the new "tastemakers" and services ...