Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Kindle Pricing Is Still Wrong
My lovely wife bought me an Amazon Kindle for Christmas. It’s a fabulous gift and I’ve really enjoyed reading on it. The whole experience is fantastic. All of the questions that I had about it haven’t been an issue at all. I’ll write another post about what those concerns were and how/why they’ve simply melted [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology | 5 Comments
Tags: ecommerce, kindle, pricing
Open Letter to Amazon
Dear Amazon, As an avid reader and buyer of books, almost always from Amazon, I have been paying much of my limited attention to your Kindle e-reader. I find myself enthralled with the prospect of having many books right at my fingertips no matter my location. Your wireless capabilities and note-taking features are icing on [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology | 3 Comments
Tags: amazon, Books, kindle, pricing
Switching from PHP to Python
The folks at Remarkable Wit were kind enough to invite me to talk at the Enterprise LAMP group here in Nashville tonight. I choose the somewhat thorny topic of moving our application from PHP to Python, specifically Django. I tried to be as impartial as I could because I still like PHP and write it [...]
Filed under: Programming, Python, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: django, lamp, php, Python, switching
Geek Social Tonight
The fine folks over at Firefly Logic are hosting another Geek Social at the Flying Saucer tonight at 6pm. I’ve not been to one yet, but my buddy Justin Bird says they’re awesome. So, come on down and get some geek in you. On an unrelated note, I’m officially done with wildlife. In the past [...]
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Tags: Geek social, wildlife
The Tax Man Cometh
The Tax Man Cometh on a white horse and Death follows in his wake. I did my taxes this weekend in less than 30 minutes thanks to those poor sons of bitches over at TurboTax. I cannot imagine the clusterfuck it must be to write software that even remotely understands the ins and outs of [...]
Filed under: Government, Politics, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: revolution, software, taxes
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