“Valuation” - Statistics on Feed Me Links
Total Lines of Code = 15,212
Breakdown by programming language:
PHP: 10360 (68.10%)
sh: 4030 (26.49%)
Perl: 822 (5.40%)
Development Effort Estimate in Person-Years = 3.49 (41.8 mo.)
(Person-Months = 2.4 [...]
PHP - Training Wheels without the Bike
http://tnx.nl/php - LOL
Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover (or the length of its footnotes)
Fooling casual readers is easy. So is preaching to the choir. Even when you’re feeding your audience outright lies, they’ll eat it up if they want to believe. Sometimes, however, the liars forget that the rest of the world can hear them.
I just discovered an excellently packaged lie while searching for books on Armenia — [...]
World Record of Happiness
Sniffing out Splinkers (Spam Linkers)
SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) purport to make sites search-engine-friendly so spiders can index your pages and find your content — fine. But often what masquerades as SEO/SEM is nothing more than unscrupulous hosers filling legitmate sites with spammy links (splinks) to fake, ad-filled websites they’ve created to harvest click-advertisement money. [...]
the Detroit photos of Bohemian Robot
Flickr: Photos from bohemianrobot
nice work.
Win Friends & Baffle Your Dog w/only the Finder!
This post unveils a JM3 technique I use when my brain’s on fire and I need the simplest possible thing to put it out. Let me explain.
There are many software organizers for making lists. I don’t like most of them. They get in the way of unravelling and documenting my thoughts. They distract me. More [...]
“Open as Google Document” button on GMail attachments
This just in: Now, when you get an attachment in GMail that’s an Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word format, Google adds a new button next to the attachment that says, “Open as a Google Document”.
This is huge for people like me who don’t have a license for any of the M$ apps and prefer to [...]
jm3 featured on the Creative Class Blog!
Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class blog syndicated a post I wrote about “Work and the Amniotic Bubble”, called “Why I Left“.
How very flattering! They get it. :-)
Want to keep your old phone number? You’ll still pay.
Fierce Wireless did a story on mobile phone subscribers who aren’t getting the most out of the technical/legislative feature of “porting” your phone number.
I respond:
Unbreakable long-term service contracts and ETFs counteract the utility of number portability in the States — if you can’t break up with your provider for less than $200 - $250, who [...]