April 2008
80 posts
“You know, there’s no doubt that among some of my supporters or some of her...”
– Clinton Shouldn’t Feel Forced to Quit Race, Obama Says - New York Times
March 2008
30 posts
“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods...”
– Stuff White People Like
“Now that spring is here, we take it for granted that the birds’ cheerful songs...”
– Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird? - New York Times This is very scary. Several years ago in the U.S. pesticide use almost killed off the songbirds and butterflies except for the book Silent Spring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring) which helped to put an end to the practice. Now...
“But what difference does it make?” he added. “When you’re mixed, you see how...”
– Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race - New York Times
Last post
Yeah, that last post was a bit unintelligible I know. I really don’t plan to post to tumblr from voice very often. But I wanted to highlight http://www.jot.com and it’s really smart rtm integration. You can talk to it and say something like “Call Matt tomorrow at 5 pm” and it will add a task due tomorrow at 5 p.m for such things. It will even regognize Matt as a...
Hi everybody, this is...
Hi everybody, this is a post from Jott. If you don’t use Jott, that is www.jott.com. It’s incredible. You can add task to remember the milk from Jott. Pretty unbelievable, ____ go to GTD system, you can implement with the stuff and ____. Bye. listen
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sending this from IM, damm cool.
The JJW Blog is now in tumblr!
I have consolidated my blog into tumblr and moved http://johnjwright.com to point here. I am doing this because I have found tumblr to be so smart and because most of my posts on my wordpress blog were rather short and tumbling anyways. I also found a good comment system with Disqus. I like that tumblr is more about showing versus telling and is so damm simple. I feel like I just cleaned my...
HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw... →
I found this from http://www.todoist.com, which seems to be a great online todo manager.
“He also disputed the notion that his trip was a vacation, given that it lasted...”
– Obama Warms to Wrapping Up Contest - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
Torvalds on where Linux is headed in 2008 -... →
Kind of late, but look at his solid answers. I like how he champions the flexibility of open source software.
“The best planning probably can’t prevent the problems of today, but can...”
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Muxtape / mattpayton →
Hell yeah!
Muxtape / patrickmoberg / M.I.A. - Paper Planes →
Cache Meta Language - Wikipedia, the free... →
posted an item on Tumblr →
More Linus comments 17 minutes ago - Comment
posted two blog posts on The JJW Blog →
Magic Ink 2 hours ago - Comment Great quote on C 2 hours ago - Comment
More Linus comments
So another good comment in response to Linus T’s assertion that C is crap:
“He is correct. Most languages out there are for the “professional programmer” masses to regurgitate for the rest of the consumer masses. That’s why most programs take a long time to get the bugs out and thats what takes away alot of time from evolving the programmers and their programs to a highly...
Great quote on C
“Object models tend to get out of hand, and for low-level coding, something more primitive like C (which is really just a nice abstraction layer above the assembler itself) is excellent.”
-user comment from http://emonk.debianuruguay.org/?p=42