Category Archives: technology

Blog, Cringely

Robert Cringely’s “I, Cringely” site has changed from a non-interactive plain ol’ web page to a blog format. I can’t say that I care too much about the comments, but I do like the new page design. Mostly I’m looking forward to more NerdTV interviews: “NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks – a one-hour [...]

Hot Wasabi, Hot Jobs

Conspiracy theory: Joel posted his Language Wars and Wasabi posts on September 1, 2006. He announced the new Joel on Software Jobs Board on September 5, 2006. Hmm… Joel knew that his Language Wars and Wasabi posts would get a lot of attention, and perhaps some of that attention would last long enough to get [...]

Cringely goes to the blogs

Robert X. Cringely, tech pundit extraordinaire, said he’s going to change his weeklyish column into a blog. I’m hoping that means we’ll get to see more frequent content from him. I really enjoy his insight into the tech world – he’s usually thinking things no one else is (or at least he’s the only one [...]

Herding Cats at Google

From an Information Week article about Google: “Lots of small, short-lived projects mean traditional project management software based on task lists isn’t right for Google. For one thing, techies aren’t very good at cataloging how they spend their hours. What they are good at, it turns out, is writing up a few short sentences or [...]

Online calendar Kiko sold on Ebay

As you may have heard, the online calendar site Kiko was sold on Ebay (edit June 11, 2007: auction has been aged off of eBay) for $258,100. Kiko authors Richard White and Justin Kan blogged about why they sold Kiko (click their names for their posts), Richard explains more here. From the first of Richard’s [...]