Craig’s Musings

Phil Windley blogged about his user-centric reputation talk about AOL in Virginia today. “User-centric reputation” set off a cascade of thoughts, which are highlighted here (i.e. beware stream of consciousness)…
Recently the above catch phrase (i.e. Switchfoot song/lyric from Nothing Is Sound) came to mind while I was thinking again about content management and the role [...]

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Over the years, I’ve slowly collected a set of Flash-based games. Thanks to Phil Haack (and his brother), I’m now happily wasting time on vacation playing Line Rider. So far I have my sledder/rider successfully performing a loop, an inverted flip and a forward “1800″ (five tight flips in a row)…except that a complete wipe-out [...]

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…is filled with Schnecken’s and Downtowner’s from Gayle’s Bakery & Rosticceria (Italian deli) in Capitola. (They make good espresso, too.)

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Awhile ago, my wife gifted me with a Belkin TuneFM for my iPod nano. Pop the TuneFM into the iPod and optionally into your car’s power outlet and viola! You can use your car’s FM receiver to transmit music from your iPod over your car’s speaker system.
Belkin itself provides a service (based on frequency [...]

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Paul Graham’s essay last month, “Stuff,” really resonates with me. I strongly encourage you to take a few minutes and go read it. Good, isn’t it?!
Stuff appears to be a key contributing factor to the commoditization–er, evaporation–of my time. In fact, I can effectively replace “stuff” with “information” in Paul’s essay and feel equally downtrodden. I’m [...]

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